Its not necessary for subscribers who have unlimited plans being used, but for those who have limited download/upload data per month, they have to be conservative and try to save bandwidth usage.

If you are using these 2 services, there is a firefox plugin which helps in monitoring the bandwidth stuff.
- BSNL Dataone Broadband Services
- MTNL Triband Broadband Services

So, its a firefox extension which is useful for only mozilla firefox users, and internet explorer users can’t benefit from it. It is called DataFox extension. Version 1.4 restores Firefox 3 compatibility and supports BSNL’s new bbservice.bsnl.in portal.

You just have to go the plugin page and click on install if you are using the firefox browser. The extension will be installed within a minute. Then after installation you have to login and then monitor the stats.
There are various preferences which you can tweak with datafox -
Login on startup
Bandwidth limit
Statusbar / Tooltip string

These are the variables in which datafox tracks the isp and provide the results -

• [BSNL]{tS}-Total Upload
• [Both]{tR}-Total Download
• [BSNL]{tX}-Total Transfer
• [Both]{cX}-Chargeable Transfer
• [Both]{sX}-Surplus Transfer
• [Both]{uP}-Used Percent
• [Both]{aP}-Allowed Percent
• [BSNL]{tH}-Total Hours
• [Both]{YM}-Year-Month
• [Both]{tT}-Last Updated

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