BANGALORE, INDIA: State-owned telecom service provider BSNL has introduced new offers on EVDO cards for its CDMA subscribers. BSNL will also offer roaming facility on these cards

EVDO, also known as EV-DO; "Evolution, Data Only" or "Evolution, Data Optimized", is a standard for high speed wireless broadband. It is one of two major Third Generation, or 3G, wireless standards. The competing standard is known as W-CDMA.

BSNL will offer Internet surfing speeds of up to 144 Kbps by using the NIC cards or by using EVDO cards get speeds up to 2.4 Mbps. 

On promotional basis, BSNL will offerNIC and EVDO cards at Rs.. 1,680 and Rs.. 2,100 from July 1 till Sept 30, 2009. The two new plans are Network Interface Card based and will be offered at a monthly charge of Rs. 250 with deliverable speeds of 144 Kbps and the other plan priced at Rs.. 650 per month delivered over EVDO backbone offering speed of up to 2.4 Mbps.