How to select Best Internet Plan

Last updated on January 17th, 2023 at 04:43 am

“Everywhere Internet” is the new normal that means you need the internet at home, on move, and at your working place. Selecting the right internet services with an affordable plan for all your requirements needs a few things to be considered.

There are many telecom operators which provide Internet services and have attractive plans/offers for beginners as well as for Internet-addicted peoples. Before going for Internet services, we must see the following facts, like fixed or mobile Internet, speed, network availability, tariffs, dongles, roaming facility, customer care, etc before taking a final decision.

Fixed or mobility:

First of all, you must decide, whether you want to use the Internet at one place, at your home/ working place or you need the Internet while on moving/traveling, etc. If you want to use the Internet at one place then go for a Broadband service otherwise go for mobile internet service. It is believed that you can experience higher speeds of the Internet on wired/ fiber connections.

The fixed broadband is available on the copper wire as well as on Optical Fibre Cable (FTTH). Nowadays Internet services on FTTH are common and provided by many telecom service providers including cable operators. For mobile Internet services, you have a vast choice.

Speed of the Internet:

The speed of the Internet plays a very important role, you have the option to choose among 3G, 4G, and VoLTE network, and every network has its own speed.

3G offers speed starting from 256Kbps to 56 Mbps and can be used directly on Smartphones and on PC/ Laptops via Dongles, 4G services are available now in almost every big cities including nearby rural areas, and provided by all telecom operators with speed up to 100Mbps. 4G services can be enjoyed via 4G Dongles only on PC/Laptop.  Fixed Broadband on FTTH has speed up to 1 Gbps and copper it may go up to 24 Mbps.

Network Availability:

Try to find out which mobile operator have strong signal strength at your premises/ locality so that you can use the Internet at its full speed, poor strength of signal leads to unsatisfactory services.

Tariff of data plans:

The cost of internet plans depends on their speed and how much data used on high-speed. Almost all mobile operators are offering very competitive tariffs so check their tariff plans before selecting one particular plan for you as per your need.

The cost of FTTH Broadband plans also depends on download speed and total data usage at this high-speed. Almost all Internet plans allow you to use unlimited data at a slower speed after consuming high-speed data.

Type of data plan:

The data plans are available in Prepaid/ Postpaid for mobile customers. Prepaid users can control their expenditure on phone bills while Postpaid customers first use the Internet services and then pay for it so he can’t control it.

Now almost all prepaid plans offer unlimited data usage after consuming a certain amount of data at high-speed. The price of the prepaid plan decided this high-speed data usage and validity of the plan. The effective prices of longer validity plans are cheaper as compared to a short validity period.

Roaming:

This is also important for you if want to use Internet service at other places during your business tour, holidays, vacations, visit your relatives, etc. You must find out which mobile operator has a roaming facility on all India or an International basis and whether the mobile operator is charging extra while using the Internet in a Roaming area. The point is that you must get services in the roaming area also for free or with charges.

Dongle:

Dongles are useful to use internet services on your laptop on move. 3G Dongles are available with a speed of 3.6 Mbps, 7.2 Mbps, 14.4 Mbps, and 21.6 Mbps and 4G dongles are available with 150Mbps speed in the market but all these specs are denoting their maximum supported speed by the hardware of Dongle only.

The actual data speed depends on your data plan. If your mobile operator offers 2 Mbps speed in your data plan, then all these Dongles give the same result so you must purchase the Dongle considering the speed of your data plan. Nowadays 4G dongles are also available at affordable prices.

Customer Care:

This is another most important because if you have chosen fixed broadband services. How quickly your operator responds to your complaints in case of a fault, matters a lot to you. If your operator doesn’t respond immediately then what is the use of its competitive tariffs? In the case of a mobile operator, the operator must sort out the issue of network availability, non-working your data plan, etc immediately.  

It is better to check the Internet services by the trail pack of telecom operators and if you are fully satisfied with all factors then go for a regular and higher data plan of the mobile operator.

I hope this article will help you to select the best data plan available and offered by different mobile operators in the market.