State-owned telecom provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd will increase the speed cap on all its DSL and Fiber broadband plans to 10 Mbps. At present, most plans have a speed cap of 4 Mbps. However, higher speeds will be available only in areas which are relatively close to the telephone exchange. For example, the ADSL […]
Himachal Futuristics or HFCL, promoted by Mahendra Nahata — who helped in the formation of Reliance Jio — said it won a Rs 558 cr advance purchase order from BSNL to set up microwave radio links for a defence network. “The Company has received an Advance Purchase Order worth Rs.558 Crore approx from Bharat Sanchar […]
The Union Cabinet today gave its approval for hiving off mobile tower assets of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited into a separate company owned by BSNL. While the move, is not of that big a significance in itself, it is crucial from the perspective of what could come next. It is believed that the move to […]
The shipments data cards or dongles in India jumped 15% in Apr-June period compared to the previous three months, thanks to aggressive sales of Reliance Jio Mifi devices. The Ambani company had a 91% share of the dongle market in the country during the period, said CyberMedia Research. The company has been offering value back […]
Players like Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone are heaving a sigh of relief that Reliance Jio has not unveiled any ‘monsoon surprise’ offer. However, state-owned BSNL may be about to increase the competition in the market with the launch of its 4G services shortly. Anupam Shrivastava, the chairman and managing director of the state-owned […]
BSNL, the state-owned telecommunications company, said it has decided to extent the benefits of all special recharges to its subscribers even when they’re roaming. So far, these special tariffs were available only in the home location. For example, STV 349 which offers unlimited voice call to any network only in home LSA, now the benefit […]
Faced with a slowdown due to the emergence of the pan-India competitor Reliance Jio, state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has halved the price of its unlimited 2 Mbps DSL broadband plan to 599 per month. The player was earlier offering unlimited 2 Mbps for Rs 1,199. Though cheap by the company’s standards, the earlier offer […]
Netflix, the world’s biggest distributor of movies, ranked Mumbai-based 7 Star cable network and Spectranet, which offers fiber broadband in several cities, as the fastest networks for prime time usage. The average speed available to Netflix was 2.77 Mbps on 7 Star cable and 2.69 Mbps on Spectranet in June, the movie streaming company’s ratings […]
Tamil Nadu-based Adpay Mobile Payment will formally launch its mobile services on Tuesday in a tie-up with state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. The company, which will operate on the MVNO model, has sent out press invites for the inauguration function to be held on Tuesday. Under the MVNO or mobile virtual network operator model, a […]
Government of India is yet to say ‘no’ to a request by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd for the allocation of one block of spectrum in the precious 700 MHz band to enable it to launch 4G services in rural areas. The company had sought one block of 700 MHz spectrum in return for issuing new shares […]
Reacting to falling usage of data on its network, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has increased the data available on its recharges, and introduced a daily data scheme priced at Rs 3099 for 90 days. The operator had, on Apr 1, doubled the data available on most of its 3G recharges, but had limited the new […]
With the prospect of the entry of Reliance Jio into the cable and broadband market, Ortel Communications — the largest cable network in Orissa and an emerging player in neighboring states, has slashed its broadband rates. The company has removed all its sub-1 Mbps plans and replaced them with plans having speeds of 1 Mbps […]
Reliance Jio, the telecom services provider from Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries, has extended the period for its subscribers to sign up for its Membership program up to Apr 15. It will also provide three months of free service for any member who signs up for its monthly packages starting at Rs 303 per month. In […]
The Department of Telecom has lifted its freeze over the recruitment of 2,700 junior engineers into Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, India’s state-owned telecom operator. The results of the recruitment exam, conducted in September last year, were put on hold in December after the Department of Telecom received complaints about the conduct of the exam from several […]
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd is now offering 30 GB of 3G data with a validity of 30 days for Rs 549 rupees under a promotional scheme till the end of the month. The scheme is intended to coincide with similar freebies announced by new entrant Reliance Jio. Jio offers 10 GB of extra 4G data […]
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, the state-owned telecom services provider, has launched India’s cheapest daily-data pack at Rs 339 per month. For the amount, users will get 2 GB of 3G data plus 25 minutes of free calls per day. The closest tariff plan to this offer is from Reliance Jio, which gives 2 GB per […]
High right-of-way charges levied by local bodies for allowing Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd to lay underground cables are largely responsible for the telecom company’s inability to provide land phones on demand, the government said. As of January, BSNL has 12,052 landline applications kept pending and most of this is because of poor commercial feasibility issues […]
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, the publicly owned telecom services provider, announced liberalization of its plans for postpaid customers, a month after doing so for prepaid subscribers. While it offers 1 GB data plus unlimited calling to prepaid subscribers for Rs 339, for pospaid, the cost of the unlimited calling pack has been kept higher at […]
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd, the state-owned telecommunications operator in the metro areas of Delhi and Mumbai, said it was not aware of any ‘restarting’ of talks related to its merger with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, the pan-India telecom operator owned by the public. “We are not aware of any such news. As and when any such […]
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, the publicly owned telecom operator, is now ‘MNP positive’, its chairman and managing director Anupam Shrivastava said, without giving details. “BSNL’s MNP ratio is positive,” Shrivastava said at a customer interaction event today. It is not clear whether the executive was talking about all-time figures or monthly or yearly numbers. In […]
