BSNL To Provide Satellite Phone Connectivity To 37000 Villages Which are Yet to be Connected With Mobile Services

India’s National Telecom back bone Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is ready to provide connectivity to uncovered 37000 villages through Digital Satellite Phone Terminal (DSPT) technology and the technically feasible villages are expected to be provided with VPT facility by 31st March, 2013.

The progress and the changes in telecom have been astronomical, with new and cheaper wireless and mobile technologies taking birth almost each year. With an addition of approx 18 million subscribers every month and contributing to nearly 2% of the Indian GDP, Indian telecom industry is considered to be the largest telecom markets of the world.

But still about 37,000 villages in India are yet to be connected with mobile connectivity as per the analysis carried out by CDOT (Centre for Development of Telematics) and nun of private operator much interested to expand their telecom/mobile services in remote and rural or commercially not profitable areas.

Earlier State run BSNL done the same to provide the Mobile Connectivity in Batal-Losar-Kaza in the high-altitude “No-Man’s Land” in the state of Himachal Pradesh,through satellite connectivity at different spots on these stretches to facilitate the communication needs in the snowbound region as we shared in September 2010 on TelecomTalk.

Govt of India also trying to enhance rural teledensity with verious schmemes funded by USO Fund. According to Milind Deora, Minister of State for Communications & IT “there have been delays in provisioning of mobile services by Universal Service Providers (USPs) under the Shared Mobile Infrastructure Scheme of USOF.

Shared Mobile Infrastructure Scheme was launched by USO Fund to provide subsidy support for setting up and managing 7,353 infrastructure sites/ towers in 500 districts spread over 27 states for provision of mobile services in the specified rural and remote areas, where there was no existing fixed wireless or mobile coverage.

Villages or cluster of villages having population of 2000 or more and not having mobile coverage were taken into consideration for installation of the tower under this scheme.

As on 31st July 2012, total 7307 mobile towers i.e. about 99.37% had been set up under this scheme.

As per the National Telecom Policy – 2012, approved by the Government on 31.05.2012, it is proposed to increase rural teledensity from current level of around 39 to 70 by the year 2017 and 100 by the year 2020.

srikanthaiah September 10, 2012 at 8:33 pm

only B S N L can do wonders if it is free from bureaucracy and red tapism m and also mainly without political inteference

Parthasarathy September 9, 2012 at 9:24 pm

Great news to Indian ,Thanks BSNL

ARUN KUMAR September 8, 2012 at 4:42 pm

but in kerala, BSNL is the best. kerala is the only profit making state of BSNL… BSNL broadband is awesome

sunny September 7, 2012 at 10:13 pm

use BSNL and be happy, very soon BSNL time is coming back

avisek September 7, 2012 at 9:29 pm

great bsnl.only one company thinks for indians.All indian should use bsnl.Because bsnl financial condition become poor due to govt policy and corruption.If we use bsnl ,it will help to bring revenue for this company.

manjeet singh September 7, 2012 at 6:54 pm

@ Parashar Kumar
just create a APN in ur mobile i.e., bsnlnet
and remember one thing all values should be default, thanks any other help u want …………

Parashar Kumar September 7, 2012 at 2:13 pm

@Sanjay Bafna- How to get net connectivity on BSNL Connection at my Samsung Galaxy Y young?(GSM)

dskushwaha September 7, 2012 at 5:22 am

jai :how to use satelite phone

For more info about Satphone visit
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_phone

sajid September 7, 2012 at 2:29 am

10 warsiye yojna hai bsnl ka

PD September 6, 2012 at 11:49 pm

The real story is still different. Yesterday, I had an opportunity to be present (by invitation) in a Consumer Workshop conducted by Raigad Telecom(BSNL) circle. Jt. Secretary, Consumer Guidance Society of India (CGSI), Mumbai too was present along with other dignitaries. What transpired is astonishing. When aired views on the rural exchanges that does not provision for replenishment of inventories (instruments, cables,etc) for attending to the complaints no concrete commitments were made by those concerned. The loss making PSUs need attention. Rural exchanges are worn out condition. The BSNL signal is weak because of the high signal strength emiting from the towers of pvt. players. The replies and comments from CGSI too were lacking concrete solutions. Well good luck to BSNL, Long back I have pulled plug of BSNL broadband because continued disruptions !

Amit Deb Biswas September 6, 2012 at 10:44 pm