After moving back to Delhi I had no option but to use the sloppy Tata Indicom dial up connection powered by Tata Indicom Cyberpass. I love the whole Cyberpass concept that I can use their dial up internet access across the nation from any phone line. The last time I used their dial-up access it worked for me. Not this time! I had to survive on a text only version of the web and yes it took five minutes for me to Google stuff! The connectivity sucked at all time. It reminded me of those days when dial up was the only type of connectivity we had.

The good news is I won’t need them anymore. Airtel has got my earlier broadband connection re-activated. Broadband now seems a luxury, especially after a week on dial-up.

I came across this new service from Tata Indicom called CyberPass while paying my bill for a post-paid mobile connection. That’s because they can screw post-paid subscribers with billing. CyberPass is a value added service exclusively for Tata Indicom wireless post-paid subscribers. It’s an array of value added services powered by Tata Communications. Existing Tata Indicom post-paid subscribers can register for CyberPass service easily here.

The most striking feature I noticed was that it allows users to access Tata’s dial-up internet access, broadband internet access and Wi-Fi internet access across the country. Very intelligent and useful indeed for someone like me! You can use their dial-up internet access across the country, you just need to plug-in a telephone cable. For broadband access you just need a pre-installed broadband connection, like a friend or a relative’s place. Wi-Fi is the most useful feature. Though it’s coming soon, as per Tata, the service would disable registering and buying packages.

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