WOW!!!!. If this is true, then even I would wish to take up a mobile phone connection from BSNL today...the offer seems attractive...but will this be without any hidden charges?.. also the reason given for lowering the cost of ISDN lines seems to me as ludicurous. They are speaking of internet penetration, when the basic education penetration is absymally low and there are schools without teachers in many villages. The notion of Internet penetration would involve only the urban middle class...isnt it?because rural areas hardly have a proper functioning phone line..let alone ISDN lines and there arent enough people who knows how to operate the computers. I think these PSUs are still paying just a lip service for the "Societal Duty" stuff and they are as profit oriented as their Private counterparts. But true for the urban populace the reduction wouldnt have come at a better time... I would ask my father to seriously consider getting a Broadband connection at home..this seems a good proposition now...