Memories of an era gone by are all that remains for telegraphists, considered the backbone of the historic 163-year-old telegram service, which bids its final adieu.
BSNL will use the investment for mobile expansion and for services like 3G, broadband, wireless broadband, IPTV, WiMAX, mobile commerce (m-commerce), value-added landline, Enterprise Resource Planning and others.
The government is planning to merge Bharat Broadband Nigam Limited (BBNL) with the loss-making state-run telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) this month, a senior official has said. BSNL chairman and managing director PK Purwar at a recent event organised by the All India Graduate Engineers and Telecom officers Association (AIGETOA) said that the government is giving the telecom firm an opportunity for a turnaround. "The government has taken a policy decision that BBNL is going to be merged into BSNL. "This means all work of BBNL at the pan-India level is going to come to BSNL," Purwar said at the All India Conference of AIGETOA on March 13.
Rural India is divided into 6000 blocks of population.BSNL has rights to 1000 blocks and has invited tenders for installing a WiMAX base station in each of those blocks to provide connectivity to villages. Rural India is divided into 6000 blocks of population. BSNL has rights to 1000 blocks and has invited tenders for installing a WiMAX base station in each of those blocks to provide connectivity to villages.
Under the landline services, STD rates have been reduced from Rs 2.40 to 1.20 paise per minute to all networks in general and 'sulabh' plan. "The intra-circle call charges, to BSNL network and inter circle call charges to all the networks, has also been reduced by 50 per cent," BSNL CMD Kuldeep Goyal said.
India's public sector telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd plans to roll out triple play broadband services by January 2007, starting with the cities of Pune and Chennai.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited said on Friday it would seek a lower price from vendors Ericsson and Nokia ahead of awarding them an estimated $4.8 billion contract for adding 45 million GSM lines to its network.
BSNL can go ahead with its over Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion) GSM expansion plan as Motorola withdraws its application challenging the former's tender process in the Delhi High Court.
With a view to tap the huge rural market for mobile telephony, state-owned BSNL has started providing handsets with new cellular connections.
BSNL also launched a pre-paid card with lifetime validity for Rs 949 which includes preloaded talk time of Rs 99.
State-run BSNL is likely to place a Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion) mobile telephony order with the two winners of the contract - Ericsson and Nokia - by second week of May to increase the capacity of its network.
State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd on Friday said the concept of 'One India', entailing single tariff for local and STD calls, was welcome from the consumers' point of view but its impact on companies' finances would have to be assessed.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd decided on Thursday to make all incoming calls on CellOne, its cellular service, free of charge from all telephones and all networks, with immediate effect.\n\n\n\n
BSNL will now offer free roaming from this month onwards.
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