Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has worked out an elaborate plan for the development of telecommunications network along the ancient silk route following the recent Sino-Indian agreement on border trade through Nathula in East Sikkim.
The monopoly of state-owned service providers Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd in the public call office business is fast eroding.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd will provide six crore new mobile telephone connections across the country within the next four years, its director (planning and new services) R L Dube said on Saturday.
Millennium Telecom, a joint venture company of two telecom PSUs Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has floated a Rs 1,600-crore (Rs 16-billion) tender to lay a submarine cable between India and South East Asia, the landing station for which would be located in West Bengal. "The cable landing station for this cable would be set up at Digha in West Bengal," the department of telecommunication has informed the state government.
Motorola on Tuesday said it is in talks with Reliance Infocomm to provide set top boxes for the company's Internet Protocol Television rollout in the country.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has launched a suite of Marathi, Hindi and English-based services on the voice platform for its Maharashtra CellOne and landline subscribers.
Minister of State for Communication Shakeel Ahmad said that the exact modalities for effecting it would take some time because of the complexities involved.
The rift between state-owned telecom services provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and the telecom watchdog Telecom Regulatory Authority of India over reducing access deficit charge is likely to benefit consumers.
State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd have submitted alternate basic (landline) telephony tariff plans, pegging the rates much below the ceiling rates announced by TRAI
Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Infocomm has been chosen the 'Telecom Man of the Year 2004
Arrears owed by subscribers to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd stand at Rs 2655 crore (Rs 26.55 billion), including Rs 306 crore (Rs 3.06 billion), against government departments, Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday.
The Department of Telecommunications might favour the holding company structure for the merger of the two telecom PSUs, Bharat Sanchar Nigam and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam.
The Delhi high court on Thursday extended its interim stay on award of contract by state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd for its Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion) project, to add 45 million lines in its GSM network till February 12.
The Kuki Liberation Army have demanded Rs 30 lakh in exchange for Deputy General Manager J Lumkim's release.
Indiagames, a provider of online and mobile games, has signed a deal with Bharat Sanchar Nigam to offer its online 'games on demand' service.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd Employees Union on Friday extended support to the proposed indefinite strike of employees of public sector oil companies against privatisation of HPCL and BPCL.
The IPO exercise is likely to begin in 2-3 months and will be completed within a year, BSNL said.
Work on BSNL, MTNL sell-off plans to begin
The Centre's ambitious Rs 6-trillion National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) could fall short of yearly targets for the current fiscal year (FY22) and the next one as well (FY23), partly due to the long gestation period in monetising big-ticket railway infrastructure, Business Standard has learnt from sources in the finance and rail ministries. Officials say the major chunk of railway monetisation will happen from FY24 onwards because leasing some of the infrastructure, like stadiums and dedicated freight corridor, will not happen anytime soon. Rail infra is expected to be the second-biggest contributor to the NMP, with about Rs 1.52 trillion worth of assets to be monetised.
Preliminary work on submitting proposals for offloading government equity in 12 PSUs, including BSNL and MTNL, has begun.
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