In my town I have no other choice but BSNL. I have BSNL net connection. Problem is with phone line. Its been just 4 days since I get this new connection. Telephone line is dead. So Internet connection is getting broken every now and then. I am some how managing to view, read and make posts here...
Of course BSNL too has the option of wireless EVDO modem similar to Reliance Netconnect and Tata Photon and MTS. All of these use CDMA wireless access .
Nothing is worse than lack of choice, In Bangalore, certain areas had Airtel broadband nearly 4 years before BSNL even arrived there. So it need not that BSNL is always the first . Nowadays some new company Tikona has some package for some 50 per month ,maybe good as a backup connection. I am hoping to get a 3G mobile to go with my BSNL connection.Of course it should then have a mini USB slot. Interestingly I have seen that BSNL has the best rates and importantly speed through GPRS compared to Airtel . Hoping that the 3G is just as good. Dont know how feasible it is to use GPRS but connectivity is important to atleast close open positions.
Funnily trading has the most extreme models of de risking,there should be a back up everything: net,power source,trading account, terminal,hardware(PCs, laptops, mobile capable of streaming quotes) .Here power is an issue.