Babus may now use private telecom, airline services
At present, in BSNL and MTNL, there is no such proposal for reduction of landline call charges and mobile roaming charges, officials of both the companies said.
Private telecom operators have overtaken their public sector counterparts -- Bharat Sanchar Nigam and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam
MTNL had earlier reduced the call charges from Trump to MTNL landline from Rs 1.50 per minute to 90p per minute from January 1 this year. However from January 26, a flat rate of 90p per minute is applicable to calls to any local number of Mumbai across all operators.
The all-India reserve price of a 3G licence is Rs 2,020 crore (Rs 20.2 billion).
A poser by CPI-M member Sitaram Yechury on whether Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited are deliberately not setting up towers to favour private companies left Communications Minister Dayanidhi Maran seething with anger.
Unlike the normal PC, Nova netPC does away with many hardware requirements like a central processing unit or CPU. It, instead, uses a central network server to run software applications and store data.
The central government has mandated all ministries, public departments and public sector units to use the telecom services of State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL).
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd is looking for joint ventures and tie-ups with content providers for its newly launched broadband services, Tri Band.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited employees and executives across the country will go on a strike on July 11 to press the government to immediately place the purchase order for the 45.5 million GSM contract to the selected vendors.
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.
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
Star India has launched an internet facility for mobile users, especially targeted at small-end and rural users. The new mobile application termed PLUS is at present available for free and is accessible on Hutch, Idea, BPL, BSNL, Spice and MTNL.
R S P Sinha has been appointed Chairman and Managing Director of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd with immediate effect.
State-owned telecom major Mahanagar Telephone Nigam -- telecom service provider in Mumbai and Delhi circles -- has slashed domestic long-distance (STD) rates by 66 per cent with immediate effect. The STD calls made from landline and Garuda (CDMA service) will now be levied at Rs 1.20 per minute, a reduction of 66.66 per cent, as against the existing rate of Rs 2 per minute.
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.
State-run Mahanagar Telephone Nigam on Tuesday joined the bandwagon of telecom companies offering lifetime validity on prepaid mobile cards
Dayanadhi Maran, the new IT and telecommunications minister, also announced a 10-point agenda, including revamping the telecom policy, to reduce the cost to customers.
The refund also includes interest payment of Rs 166.19 crore (Rs 1.66 billion), which would increase the net profit of MTNL for the last financial year. "The interest component will have an impact on our net profitability. We are expecting it to go up by about Rs 120 crore," MTNL Director (Finance) Anita Soni told PTI. The company has lined up huge investments to ramp its GSM capacity both in Delhi and Mumbai and also broadband network.
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.
For countries to which the calling rates were at Rs 6, 8 and 12 have now been reduced to Rs 4, 6 and Rs 8 per minute respectively. The new rates will be effective from Friday, company's Executive Director A K Arora said in a statement.
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd has already launched IPTV in Delhi. Its partner, Aksh, may soon tie up with Zee and ESPN too since content and pricing will hold the key to success as others join the fray.
While ranking the companies, the study expressed concern over the slackening pace of Internet and broadband penetration as a result of which not even a single target set by the regulator in 2005 has been met.
State-owned Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd has signed a deal with an Israeli firm and its Indian partner to expand the telecom giant's IPTV services, which will enable TV broadcasts through telephone lines.
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd on Tuesday announced free incoming calls for its Dolphin cellular subscribers, while roaming all over India.
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