In an initiative that would take the GSM Mobile service offering in rural areas to a new level, India’s National Telecom Backbone and the leading telecom service provider, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) today announced that it will now offer the cheapest local call connectivity to rural and remote areas in the state of Rajasthan with in the BSNL network.
BSNL launches the “BTS-the mobile tower Based Tariff scheme” which is first time introduced in India by any GSM mobile service provider. The tariff for the calls originated through the rural area’s BTS will be 20 paisa per minute for local call with in BSNL network and all STD call own network will be chargeable at Rs.1.00/ per min.
Now all new as well as existing BSNL prepaid customers of rural area can avail this new base tariff without the purchase of any STV or bonus recharge and irrespective of their present plan.
The other network call/SMS and other charges will be applicable as per Normal prepaid plan.In each BSNL SSA(District) BTSs have been identified in rural area where traffic is low and there is only BTS in the village/town wherein BSNL subscriber can enjoy the local call to BSNL phone at 20p with in Rajasthan telecom circle.
gv October 22, 2010 at 8:39 am
bsnl prepaid mobile good survice in rajsthan
Ankit jain October 22, 2009 at 10:19 am
it is best offer by BSNL.but i want ,that other local call also reduced .
Khemraj October 4, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Need to offer 10paise/min call on own network which is affordable to BSNL India’s No.1 Telecom service provider…
For the same we already send mail to CMD…for soft launch in all over India to pull out other ops subscribers…
Khemraj October 4, 2009 at 3:30 pm
@Suchisuvra Sen
If you want more offers for your Kolkotta Circle please write a mail to cmdbsnl@bsnl.co.in; or send sms/call to CMD Mr. Kuldeep Goyal 9868590099. Please mention exactly what you require to offer by BSNL. He will definitely try to help you out from it.
DJ_DM October 4, 2009 at 1:14 am
gud offer by BSNL
ishan October 4, 2009 at 12:44 am
@Suchisuvra Sen
don’t worry. according to bsnl they will also launch 1p/sec tariff plan in kolkata & ROB circle very soon.for the last few months really bsnl has no good offer in kolkata..but their KOLKATA 99 offer was awesome.hope they will relaunch it very soon.their 21 sms card(200 local sms for 1 month) and 54 power card(BSNL-BSNL @25p, others @ 50p,eastern region std to bsnl @50p others @90p) i think is very good..
Suchisuvra Sen October 3, 2009 at 10:38 pm
BSNL Kolkata Circle bekar hai,they don’t have any good offers in Kolkata Circle.Uparse ek nor ka bakwas hai o,6 mahineke bad eksath 200 rupaiya dalna parta hai.Other network have only 200 by six month anyway as 10+20+30…………..=200
Bikash October 3, 2009 at 4:45 pm
BSNL BEST HAI…….
kaushik October 2, 2009 at 7:08 pm
whenever some investment made in rural area by BSNL,BSNL always said this is their own fund and not fund of USOF
Abhi October 2, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Really its very nice offer from BSNL..
It shows CSR(Corporate Social Responsibility) of BSNL..
Other operators should learn from it..
Sanjay Bafna October 2, 2009 at 3:16 pm
With this offer NO USOF FUND will be used,
Its Totally BSNL’s own offer, so your blame on BSNL is not correct in this case.
Ravikumar October 2, 2009 at 2:33 pm
bsnl best hai,
altaf October 2, 2009 at 2:30 pm
great move by BSNL
Agnivo October 2, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Are they wasting their own money? No, BSNL gets additional funds from other operators (USOF – universal service obligation fund) to offer rural telephony benefits and service.
It’s the tax that’s being collected from other private operators; and in turn from the subscribers of the pvt. operators – it’s our money, the users of non-BSNL networks. So, they should thank us… not BSNL, as BSNL has to do it, even if they do not like to do it; a compulsion, a forced commitment.
dataoneinfo October 2, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Once again BSNL show it’s comitment to the rural India where revenue is very less and others are not interested to give service.