Airtel GPRS v/s Reliance NetConnect in Mount Abu, Rajasthan

If you are traveling to Mount Abu with your Reliance data card and hoping to get online, think again. Reliance’s network in Mount Abu is very weak. Chances are that you will not get network at all. At first I taught it was the place where I was, was a poorly covered area until I met Arvind [ St. Mary's computer teacher and a perhaps the largest computer hardware dealer in Mount Abu ] over coffee and he confirmed that Reliance’s network in Mount Abu is beyond poor. This in contrast to all their advertisement on television whose tag line is “Total Coverage.  Air | Food | Water | Network !”

Turned to my last resort: Airtel GPRS. Surprisingly Airtel’s GRPS works very well. I managed to get a peak of 7KB per second and an average of 4.5KB per second. Unlike Mumbai where if you are connected [transferring data ] using EDGE \ GPRS and someone is trying to call you he/she gets a engaged tone, calls come through just fine. I wished it worked this well back in Vasai, Mumbai. EDGE is not available in Mount Abu though is it available in Abu Road. Guessing its a works well in Abu because there are very few users using it.

Cell Phone and Bluetooth saves the day. Connects you back to civilization.

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