Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd on Thursday announced a 25 per cent cut in ISD rates for calls to the United States, Australia, New Zealand, South East Asian countries, Gulf, Africa and SAARC nations.
Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal has clubbed the two cases filed by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited challenging Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's decision to reduce the levy collected from private operators.
The new chairmen-cum-managing directors of public sector telecom firms BSNL and MTNL will be hired on a contract basis with a fixed term of three years, as per the terms and conditions of their appointment, and they will be eligible for the same salary and perks as the head honchos of schedule-A PSUs.
In all, 25 Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) posts, 8 MD posts and 2 Chairman posts are lying vacant, according to a written reply by Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises P Radhakrishnan in the Lok Sabha.
BSNL would have accounted for revenues of $250 million this year.
With only five per cent of its revenues coming from data services, BSNL is planning boost its revenue by bundling PC data card with its cellular connections targeting the frequently travelling customers to access Internet and download data.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited Mobile Network in Karnataka, under the 'Student Power Scheme,' has come out with a special offer to cater to the needs of student community.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, whose earlier 45.5 million GSM line tender was cut to half, will invite fresh bids for installing up to 50 million lines to expand its cellular capacity.
The deal will be limited to 2G lines only.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd on Thursday announced an up to 66 per cent reduction in its cellular tariff and also introduced a new package Plan 525, where cellular to cellular calls are as low as 40 paise.
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.
Country's largest telecom operator, BSNL is likely to report by about Rs 2000 crore (Rs 20 billion) dip in its net profit in 2005-06 fiscal mainly on account of truncated license fee and spectrum charges reimbursements.
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.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd is expecting a 20-25 per cent surge in its domestic long distance traffic volume following a 47 per cent cut in STD rates earlier this week.
The gauge for the performance of informational technology (IT) stocks soared nearly 5 per cent-most in nearly three years-as growth worries eased following a robust order book posted by bellwether Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). The Nifty IT index rose 4.5 per cent to close at 30,945. This was the biggest single-day gain since September 14, 2020. Industry titan TCS' shares rose 5 per cent to Rs 3,509.
The BSNL board had last year approved a plan under which the government would divest 10 per cent of its shares to the public. But opposition from the unions backed by the Left parties -- which supported the United Progressive Alliance in the last Parliament -- had stalled the process. That opposition has abated, now that the Left is no longer a factor in the current ruling alliance.
WiMax Forum, the representative body of WiMax operators, alleged that BSNL had deployed its WiMax services on the frequency division duplex-based spectrum band, which does not conform to international standards for WiMax technology. The forum also sought easier rollout obligations for the successful bidders of BWA spectrum.
MTNL and BSNL have joined hands to lay a submarine cable system to connect India to South-East Asia and the West Asia, to provide international bandwidth for their own as well as other commercial requirements.
"The aim is to build a network of around 30,000 broadband kiosks across India within a period of two years. We will set up the kiosks through franchisee in rural areas," a senior BSNL official said on Monday.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited will introduce SIM-based prepaid CDMA WLL service from August 1 that will further bring down the local call rate to 75 paise a minute.
Customers making frequent long distance calls can now avail the benefits of 47 per cent drop in STD rates, as Bharat Sanchar Nigam's reduced tariff of Rs 4.80 per minute for long distance calls beyond 500 kilometres has been effected from Friday.
A move by Swedish telecom major Ericsson, the main implementation partner for Bharat Sanchar Nigam's (BSNL) disaster recovery (DR) program, to replace Sun Microsystems and EMC Corporation storage solutions with Hewlett-Packard (HP) products has kicked up a controversy.
Strengthening their presence in the international long distance telephony segment, state-run telecom companies BSNL and MTNL are likely to finalise the proposed joint venture company for setting up a submarine cable link before this fiscal.
In a sharp contrast to the boom in the telecom sector, the revenue of public sector BSNL may take a hit of Rs 6,500 crore (Rs 65 billion) in the current financial year adversely affecting the telecom monolith's profitability.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd plans to switch over to the call-detail-record billing system for its 3.5 crore (35 million)landline subscribers in the next two to three months. "Our landline billing system as of now works on the conventional technology, and we are unable to give a customised offer to subscribers. But very soon all that will be a thing of the past," BSNL Deputy Director General, (Enterprise Business), Sunil Kumar told PTI. Telephone exchanges spread over 20 major ci
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd will reduce ISD (international subscriber dialling) tariffs for Sri Lanka by 40 per cent and to Middle East countries by 20 per cent from October 1.
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has decided to allocate one block of 3G spectrum in each service area except Delhi and Mumbai to state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) at a price equivalent to the highest bid in the respective service areas.
Amidst the controversy on the issue of entry fee for the 3G spectrum, the country's largest telecom company BSNL on Tuesday said it was against any 'abnormal' charge for the third generation mobile spectrum.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Thursday said it would take a decision next week on cellular operators' complaint against Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd's latest international and STD tariffs.
The government on Wednesday cleared financial support worth Rs 2,700 crore (Rs 27 billion) for Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd to be paid in the current and next financial year.
State-owned telecom monoliths, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd on Tuesday signed a pact to ensure seamless roaming between their networks to help their cellular subscribers have smooth mobility and connectivity.
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