After Triggering price war in the 3G Mobile and Data service, India’s National Telecom Back Bone Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has now come with another groundbreaking offer for its Landline subscribers in India.
According to BSNL Chennai website, from 1 December 2010, BSNL Landline subscribers (except PCO) can make STD Calls to any Landline phone of any network across India just at Local rates, i.e. Rs.1 or Rs 1.20 (depends on customers Landline Plan) for 3 minute (180 seconds) as by default tariff without any pack.
Presently the STD Call pulse rate is 120 seconds (2 Min).BSNL is largest landline service provider with 35.1 million Basic Phone subscribers i.e. 85 per cent share of the subscriber base and 92 percent share in revenue terms connecting 602 Districts, 7330 cities/towns and 5.6 Lakhs villages in India.
V.S.Pillai November 25, 2010 at 12:38 pm
BSNL should compensate the monthly rent with equivalent STD call to any one BSNL number, either landline or mobile, at say 10p/minute
Jamal November 24, 2010 at 6:18 pm
This is a good initiative, but yet not sufficient to keep land line alive. I think BSNL should come up with some Unlimited Landline to Landline tariff any where in india at some reasonable amount per month.
PD November 24, 2010 at 3:39 pm
The dish is not relish-able till salt is added !!! I mean MTNL. Till then you have to add it mix yourself ! Kapil Saab, are you listening ?
Devraj November 24, 2010 at 2:08 pm
BSNL to save itself should make 40ps/Min to any network any where in India with its rent as full time
Rishabh November 24, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Vinay, I have been using dual sim C5212 from Samsung from past 1 year. It has dual sim active feature which means that you would receive the call on the sim2 also while talking on the sim 1. I have seen this been used numerous times in last 1 year. It is good phone which requires daily charging because of 2 internal antennas. Also there is a easy trick to change the active sim which is not mentioned in the manual. select the number you want to call or sms then press the change sim and other sim would become active without phone rebooting.
vinay November 24, 2010 at 10:35 am
frnds. i want to buy dual sim frm samsung c3212 or 5212. it shows both sim active with call waiting facility in other sim. but in their manual, they dont clearly show it. i m satisfied with ind branded mbls of dual sim features fully except for their call waiting feature.
can any1 whu has used such phones confirm the features of call waiting to go for samsung ds mbl?
naresh kumar November 24, 2010 at 9:53 am
that is true because bsnl kerala is working very hard and coming up with new innovative schemes. sir i request to kerala circle that they should come up with some scheme for International outgoing calls on pan india because bsnl rates are vey high in comparison to pvt oprators. also 175 voucher of HP circle(bsnl to bsnl free +100 Rs) should be implemented in kerala because only after this it will be impemented on pan india basis.
thanks
naresh kumar November 24, 2010 at 9:47 am
sir
bsnl is providing this scheme on landline. in the subscriber has to pay once a year of Rs 1200+tax(urban) 600(rural). in this u will get one year incoming + 50 calls per month. so rent comes down to 50 rupees.
shantanu November 24, 2010 at 9:33 am
why does bsnl always come up half measured offers? why can’t it be re.1/3 mins for all calls – local or std and mobile or landline??? why this stupidity of just landlines?
in today’s era where calls to local or std and mobile or landline are at the same rate (all mobile operators have same tariff for all, including bsnl mobile) then why the heck did stupid bsnl come with such idiotic plan?
request bsnl to offer re.1/3mins or 180 secs to any and all call (local/std/landline/mobile) through out india.
rcom is already providing re.1/3mins – local, std, roaming. so whats the problem with bsnl and other operators (docomo are you listening?????)
Anbu John Boban November 24, 2010 at 8:57 am
in majority of homes they use just for broadband connection rest of the calls is from mobile. just wanna say this is a good initiative from bsnl to make landline use more. These offers will be good for rural area. where the mobile phone penetration is less
Arif November 24, 2010 at 6:42 am
MTNL/BSNL should decrease the rental and and also decrease the call charges as rental and call charges of mobile phone is at bottom low as compared to land line.
Thats the reason people more interested in mobile than land line.
Even the PCO people are losing business.
Santu Sovan Mandal November 23, 2010 at 11:10 pm
Now a days most of the people of urban areas use landline for broadband connection. But there are still many rural areas where there is nothing but landline to connect with rest of world. That’s the utility of BSNL. In the remotest areas you can find bsnl mobile network. One & only BSNL is serving country with trust. It’s truly “connecting india”.
AJESH November 23, 2010 at 10:31 pm
on wat basis are u comenting????
is that possible???
Keshav Jha November 23, 2010 at 10:27 pm
BSNL kuchh bhi karle log ab landline nahin lena chahte. Wire cutting ka tension log sah nahin paate. BSNL ko landline service wireless karne ka prayas karna chahiye, chahe kisi bhi tarah se ho.
shoeb November 23, 2010 at 9:32 pm
Reliance is Providing pay per call @ 1Rs for 3 mins, i am using it and its great offer that too for lifetime!! now it has increased the tariff from 1.20 Rs. but i am lucky i got it when it was 1Rs..
Raghu November 23, 2010 at 8:36 pm
@Sanjay Bafna
is this offer PAN INDIA or only for Chennai?
riju November 23, 2010 at 8:26 pm
bsnl is best.in kerala with in 2 or 3 months bsnl be in top in gsm subscriber base
karann November 23, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Guys do u know what i like about bsnl and mtnl services that when they give offers, they give it by default to all customers and not like private operators who give specialized offers and to some customers only.
eg i live in delhi and i call to mauritius daily for 3 minutes, every operator charges me 10/min and mtnl introduce diwali offer for 90 days that we can call mauritius @ 3/min by default, wow is’nt that great.
PRIVATE OPERATORS NEVER GIVE OFFERS BY DEFAULT, THEY ARE ALWAYS LOOKING TO LOOT CUSTOMERS POCKET. ISILIYE MTNL AUR BSNL BEST HAI MERE LIYE.
Gappu November 23, 2010 at 7:15 pm
fully agree man…BSNL Landline service is the best and no one can compete in this, which includes basic telephone without headache problem and fading of signal, BSNL broadband which is toooooooooooooooo good and the new feature of IPTV which gives better service then most of the DTH….
max November 23, 2010 at 6:34 pm
airtel landlines also very costly
Rudradeep Biswas November 23, 2010 at 6:32 pm
thats true basic landline plan @180 for 50 free calls is not good!
max November 23, 2010 at 6:28 pm
why landline not available in prepaid
anandh November 23, 2010 at 6:06 pm
great offer. atlast BSNL wake up. every month they are losing 1lakh landline connections apart from new broadband connections. if they reduce landlines rent to 50 rs with 50 free calls then no one will ever go for other operators.
hardeep November 23, 2010 at 5:57 pm
bsnl really need brain! reliance is giving this from mobile, and that too to any network be it mobile or landline, n even from roaming!
Nitin November 23, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Very good offer by BSNL. Waiting for this to be launched in my area.
Santu Sovan Mandal November 23, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Not only landline BSNL is best in every sector. Atleast they don’t cheat people.
Webly November 23, 2010 at 5:27 pm
Let’s wait for a PAN India launch now………. Which will be coming soon !!
bsnl landline is the best……….