State-owned telecom operator Mahanagar Telefone Nigam Ltd or MTNL has released details of the voluntary retirement scheme or VRS that will be available to its employees as part of its merger with BSNL. The company said the VRS has been based on the ‘Gujarat Model’. Under this model, employees will get a sum equal to […]
The union finance ministry has rejected the Nripendra Misra committee report on plans to revive state-owned telecom operators BSNL and MTNL, including plans for a Rs 8,500 cr VRS package and ‘free’ 4G spectrum, Malayalam newspaper Mathrubhumi reported, quoting sources. The report, if correct, would make the condition of the state-owned telecom player precarious as […]
Reliance Jio GigaFiber, the new wired broadband and cable TV service from India’s biggest telecom operator by volumes, is likely to offer free cable TV and high-speed broadband for Rs 500 per month. The customer is likely to have to make an initial upfront payment of around Rs 3,000, which would enable him to avail […]
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, the state-owned telecom operator, is likely to take loans of around Rs 6,100 cr this year, on top of the Rs 6,500 cr it took in the year ended March. According to the ministry of communications, BSNL has sought permission to borrow Rs 3,306 cr from the market to buy equipment […]
Government of India plans to give 4G-suitable spectrum in three LTE bands to BSNL and MTNL as part of a plan to revive their operations, Minister of Communications Ravi Shankar Prasad announced on Thursday. Prasad said the two public sector companies have requested spectrum in the 800 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2100 MHz bands to […]
The government of India has given back the 4G spectrum surrendered by BSNL about seven years ago to enable the state-owned telecom operator to start 4G services. The telecom operator had surrendered 4G spectrum in six expensive circles such as Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh about seven years ago, in return for part […]
BSNL, the state-owned telecom operator, has finally launched 4G in Kerala, starting from bigger cities like Thrissur. Consumers who have upgraded to the 4G SIM can latch on to the operator’s LTE network. The operator is using the 2100 MHz spectrum to deliver 4G services. The 2100 MHz spectrum, which used to be deployed exclusively […]
ITI Ltd, the government of India concern formerly known as Indian Telephone Industries Ltd, said it has been handed over 6,945 cells sites by state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd or BSNL for management and marketing. “ITI has received an Advance Work Order from BSNL for the Operation and Maintenance and Sales & Marketing of the […]
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd could end up launching 5G services as early as the first half of 2019, going by comments made by a senior official at an industry forum today. Speaking at the Mobile Device Summit 2018 organized by ‘The Mobile Association’, Anil Jain, the company’s Chief General Manager in charge of New Generation Networks promised […]
India’s state-owned telecom utility Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd is likely to report a decline of around 1.66 mln landline phone users in the year-ended March 2018, the highest in its history. During the first ten months of the just-concluded financial year, the company saw a 10.04% fall in its landline telephone users. At this rate, […]
The Telecom Commission, the top bureaucratic decision making body within the communications ministry, has approved a Rs 7,330 cr project to set up an additional 4,072 mobile towers in left-wing extremism affected areas, telecom minister Manoj Sinha said today. The project will be a follow-up the first phase, when BSNL set up 2,329 towers in […]
Telecom minister Manoj Sinha today said that the government has ‘no plans’ to merge state-owned telecom service providers Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. Sinha also said that BSNL is going ahead with the outsourcing of operations and maintenance activities of 26,287 towers across the country to third parties. “At present, there […]
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd or BSNL, the state-owned telecom operator, said it has cancelled its order to stop unlimited free calls on its landlines on all Sundays. The order was issued two weeks ago and had said that the facility of unlimited free calling on Sundays would be abolished from February. On Saturday, the company […]
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd or BSNL, which is scheduled to start its 4G services this month, has overhauled its tariff plans in circles such as Kerala, the first state in line for LTE launch. As part of the tariff overhaul, it has withdrawn its most jaw-dropping plans, and replaced them with newer ones. The impact […]
BSNL Chairman Anupam Shrivastava has officially confirmed what had only been hinted at so far, the company will indeed launch 4G services starting with Kerala next month. However, in all the buzz, one key element of the plan was overlooked — it is going to use Band 1, also known as the 3G band, for […]
State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, which had been seeing a steady recovery in its financial condition in the last three years, found it difficult to keep the recovery going in FY17. According to the latest data given by the Department of Telecom, the company reported a net loss of Rs 4,786 cr for the year […]
State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd is currently testing an intra-circle roaming agreement with Reliance Jio in Karnataka circle, telecom minister Manoj Sinha said. However, he did not clarify whether the agreement was to allow BSNL users to tap into Reliance Jio’s 4G service or to allow Jio users to access BSNL’s 2G service. However, the […]
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, the government-controlled telecom company, is likely to start its 4G services with a modest 10,000 towers. In comparison, players like Idea Cellular, Vodafone and Bharti Airtel have between 50,000-100,000 4G towers, while Reliance Jio has around 200,000 LTE base stations. BSNL has planned for only 10,000 4G node B or base […]
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has increased the speed of all its broadband to 10 Mbps from 2-4 Mbps from tomorrow for all plans starting from Rs 675 per month. This price and data allocation of the plans will remain unchanged, it said. For plans below Rs 675 per month, the download speeds have been increased […]
State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd said it would offer one month of its wired services — DSL, landline or fiber — free if the booking is made via Twitter or Facebook. The user will have to pay security deposits and installation charges, if any. However, he or she will get a month’s worth of services […]
