Agartala / New Delhi, Sep 7 (TIWN) State-run telecom service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) on Monday said it has decided to upgrade landline broadband speed to minimum 2 Mbps at no additional cost for all the broadband customers on pan-India basis from October 1. However, Tripura BSNL's Frequent call drops, call breaks, network congestion and Internet interruptions, have irked the subscribers and to get away from this prolonged harassment, most of the subscribers have subscribed more than one network.

The company is also offering 1 GB free e-mail box to their customers from 50 MB mail box.

The speed upgradation will benefit all the existing and new broadband customers of BSNL. Under this scheme, BSNL is upgrading the speed of existing Broadband plans of 512 Kbps and 1 Mbps to 2 Mbps speed, a BSNL statement said.

BSNL launched the broadband services over its landline in India in 2005 with speed of 256kbps and above over the state of art multi protocol label switching (MPLS) based IP infrastructure in urban as well as rural areas.

"This -gradation shall enhance customer experience while surfing on internet and enjoying live video streaming by all customers even in the low price range. This scheme is expected to attract new customers for subscribing BSNL Broadband customers in an affordable manner," the statement added.

Tripura's  interrupted BSNL  Internet services which is always having slow speed have become a cause of headache for the officials across state who heavily depends on Internet connectivity.

“Due to interrupted broadband services,BSNL failed to provide normal services to the consumers and most of the day customers leave Banks out of frustration”- one bank officials said. Further he alleged that the authorities lodged many complaints at Telecom office but the broadband services are deteriorating day by day and badly affecting the day-to- day services