BSNL Enrolled 1,90,000 3G Mobile and Data Subscribers in Punjab

India’s National Telecom Backbone and leading GSM Mobile service operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) got great response on its 3G mobile and Data service in Punjab telecom circle. It has announced that Punjab circle, BSNL enrolled 1,90,000 3G mobile service subscriber (up to 31st March 2010).

In Punjab, BSNL 3G GSM services are available in all 23 designated cities/towns including Mohali, Panchkula, Chandigarh, Amritasar, Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Bhatinda, Mansa, Nawansahir, Pathankot, Hoshiarpur, Gurdaspur, Ropar, Ludhiana, Faridkot and Muktsar.

BSNL bearing fruit as the scheme is drawing a good response and more than 190,000 Subscriber have gone in for the 3G Service subscription in last couple of months since the launching of the service in various area of Punjab.

BSNL provide high-speed access to data and voice and video services over its 3G UMTS network. The subscriber of 3G service will get Live Mobile TV and High-speed Wireless broadband network, offering data speed of 3.6 Mbps. The normal GPRS/EDGE mobile offers speeds of about 56 kbps. In 3G services, it would take four seconds for transmission of a normal file while in 2G and 2.5G, a normal file takes five and one minutes respectively. It is thus 20 times faster than other mobile Internet services.

Ramit May 8, 2010 at 8:04 am

Well they need to build up proper infrastructure for 3G & EVDO that will take some time..
For Internet, BSNL Broadband rocks for the time being counting on the top for its reliability of speed, affordability & its unlimited plans.

It will take a lot of time even for private telcos to provide that reliability of speed on a wireless technology.

Rahul (Tech India) April 28, 2010 at 7:24 pm

saket :
i have full doubt that 3G customer are new,
Most of them 80% are migrated from 2G.
so no new addition in subsciber base

Doubt karne vale log hamesha doubt hi karte rahenge isame koi nai baat nahi!!BSNL 3G rocks in Punjab it true

saket April 28, 2010 at 7:04 pm

i have full doubt that 3G customer are new,
Most of them 80% are migrated from 2G.
so no new addition in subsciber base

Max April 28, 2010 at 6:32 pm

Today after placing complaint my BSNL 3G speed came up from 35kB/s to 45kB/s(it seems to be funny tat in 3G im getting 2.5G speed) & the biggest problem is 3G is not present in remaining parts of Bijapur city, im not able to judge whether prob is wit network or with my USB stick

Prasath J April 28, 2010 at 4:15 pm

Congrats BSNL… But still I think 1.9Lakh 3G (data+mobile) customers till March2010 is slow and not a great number to celebrate, when comparing what the private players would have achieved, if such monopoly chance was given…

rajiev April 28, 2010 at 8:58 am