BSNL Will Launch Fixed Mobile Convergence In India

India’s National Telecom Backbone Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) will roll out fixed mobile convergence (FMC) service for its subscribers in India to provide seamless indoor coverage for GSM mobile service users.

Talking with the media on the sidelines of 3G INDIA conference held at Taj Lands End in Mumbai, Mr. R. K. Agrawal, Director-Consumer Mobility, BSNL said that Company is geared up to launch the facility of the fixed mobile convergence which is able to provide better user experience and convenience with full connectivity while deep indoor area.

BSNL will launch its fixed mobile convergence facility to its subscribers once the mobile number portability (MNP) comes into effect.

The Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) is the trend towards seamless connectivity between fixed/landline and wireless/mobile telecommunications networks. The term also describes any physical network that allows cellular telephone sets to function smoothly with the fixed network infrastructure.

The ultimate goal of FMC is to optimize transmission of all data, voice and video communications to and among end users, no matter what their locations or devices. In the more immediate future, FMC means that a single device can connect through and be switched between wired and wireless networks.

Typically, these services rely on Dual Mode Handsets, where the customers’ mobile terminal can support both the wide-area (cellular) access and the local-area technology (for VoIP). However, an alternative approach achieves FMC over 3G mobile networks – eliminating the requirement for Dual Mode.

Manoj Abhigyan November 10, 2010 at 10:27 am

sri :
STUPID BSNL, NOT UPDATED 3G rates for online recharges for AP numbers, Enjoying with public money, useless guys

BSNL is not stupid.

koushik October 1, 2010 at 8:49 am

Bsnl needs to improve its indoor coverage in West Bengal circle specially in rural areas. Gaon(W.B) me bsnl ka Data coverage ekdam ghatia hai, koi daily data plan nahi hai, ghatia cc service.
I m waiting for MNP

sri September 29, 2010 at 10:20 am

STUPID BSNL, NOT UPDATED 3G rates for online recharges for AP numbers, Enjoying with public money, useless guys

Kamal Halder September 29, 2010 at 9:57 am

Boss Look this man’s Face Mr. R. K. Agrawal, Enjoying the subscribers money to enjoy in Taj and making false promises, I bet that the service for which this man is having good food and juice will never be launched take it granted..

Kamal Halder September 29, 2010 at 9:40 am

BSNL Sucks Man will never opt for a service from them even they will be the last option, Have you all witnessed their Customer care, horrible experience has with them last one year, wasted some 12 thousand …… Bsnl go to hell

Digha September 28, 2010 at 5:03 pm

@Kaushik Maitra
Very true. still they have some customers who are extremely loyal and will never switch

Raghu September 28, 2010 at 3:35 pm

their service has improved a little now a days becoz of the coming of private operators. but there is more room for improvement from BSNL customer care service etc

Kaushik Maitra September 28, 2010 at 3:29 pm

@TD
Very true, dada. I’m from Thakurpukur, not very far from Diamond Harbour. The competitive tariffs offered by BSNL is not even known by their own staff at Alipore Telephone Exchange in Mominpore, which is the head exchange for South Calcutta. This is really pathetic. Anyway, the service has improved lately, which is obviously a good thing. But still…

PDNair September 28, 2010 at 11:38 am

@TD
God forgive the men at the top of BSNL RK Agarwal Saheb is stated to be the Director, consumer mobility ! What does it mean ? Does this imply that the bsnl subscribers should be moved out ? I have a very bitter personal experience with BSNL’s Consumer Service Centre personnel. All the men siting behind a dilapidated wooden tables and thick glass does not know what are being announced over the net by their bosses and give a BLANK look when confronted with the news item ! As rightly pointed out the top and medium level men are creating space for the private players to come up !

TD September 28, 2010 at 12:20 am

bsnl jitna bolta/announce korta hai, kaam utna korta nehi….
EXAMPLE:
for 15 august, they announced that 2g/3g sim is free for some days, but when i contacted to bsnl exchange, they tell me they have no such orders, they know nothing about it, so they cant give any free sim….

another one,
bsnl is giving cdma 1x unlimited in rs.200 without tax, signal strength is not that good, but quite ok for surfing….. when i heard it, and contacted them (head exchange), they told me that WLL(they dont know what is cdma) service is only available for remote areas/village, as we live in town we cannot avail this…. we must go for braodband…. what is this??? but when i asked that this service is available in kolkata , durgapur and other cities in west bengal, then why not here, they told me they cant say anything about it……!!!

what do you think?

King September 27, 2010 at 9:43 pm

why GSM fixed wireless terminal not available in market for prepaid subscriber? it is very useful to use your alternate mobile number as a landline.

sri September 27, 2010 at 9:06 pm

Rohan Singh :
@TREMERIN DSOUZA
U r write.. Bsnl is god in village area. Where profit is low and absence of pvt operator. Pvt. Operator targets cities and make a hole in their pocket. The only problem with it is the union which does not allow to sell few percent of shares. Not because its a public sector.

@Rohan Singh

Dear ROHAN; BSNL always creating place for private operators to mint money. We know well when we got our phones to our homes. we used to get BSNL connections after 6 months to 2 years of registration. But private operators done this in less than 30 mins.
Then bsnl wokeup and started giving in the same day or next day. Even now a days they are telling there is no free point to give BSNL line, but I know personally airtel has taken less than 6 hours to put the new Box, if they find present one filled. I still love BSNL for accurate billing from days 1. We know how other operators billing problems for years.

sri September 27, 2010 at 8:53 pm

Dear DSOUZA; I understand what you said and I already told in my above note, “if BSNL works well, there is no place for private operators even if you allow” I am trying to wakeup these BSNL guys. About the private operators, they build for profits by politicians in govt to fill the gap created by BSNL but not to serve its employees…etc. Private companies policy about employees is “USE and THROW” and govt companies is “EAT and ENJOY”

Can we change INDIA? No, may be we can change the spelling in future

Rohan Singh September 27, 2010 at 8:28 pm

@TREMERIN DSOUZA
U r write.. Bsnl is god in village area. Where profit is low and absence of pvt operator. Pvt. Operator targets cities and make a hole in their pocket. The only problem with it is the union which does not allow to sell few percent of shares. Not because its a public sector.

TREMERIN DSOUZA September 27, 2010 at 8:10 pm

@sri dear Sri, firstly calm down and please do not try to condem the authority of God,besides note that at one time only Bsnl was our help for years before there private operators entered the field.
And don’t you blame govt companies as the benefit the society at large and private companies make huge profits without paying heed to their employees welfare.

sri September 27, 2010 at 7:12 pm

Som
As per my knowledge, customer has the choice to make a call using single device with options of cellular, Voip, and fixedline service, this will not be a big deal as i think, this will be another trick to loose our pockets.
We are already losing much by using dual sims and multi mobiles, multi providers. If one single provider like BSNL maintained good network and cheapest pricing model in voice and data and CUSTOMER SERVICE from the day 1, there is no place for a competitor in india. We know very much how these BSNL guys played when the mobiles introduced in india and how these guys working now. BSNL always keeping seperate portion for other providers to enter.

if god exists, he should have acted by this time. but no, he is no more
Working in private companies, we are losing our jobs by poor profits, poor performance and poor service but what about BSNL? Happy salaries at month end and commisions during all the month for living expenses and for bigger guys, i have no words to say about their earnings and life

som September 27, 2010 at 6:45 pm

exactly what they are saying?i did not understand.could anybody explain it a little bit plainly?

sri September 27, 2010 at 5:31 pm

STOP THIS NONSENSE!! your bsnl team never works but talks more. new 3g prepaid rates announced on 20th sept to effect from 22nd sept, updated your bsnl site on 25th and today 27th, i could not be able to find new rates to recharge online in andhra pradesh.whom to contact? clicked the contact page on your bsnl portal returned error. Such a useless and lazy guys you are at bsnl and talking lot about telecom.
STOP THIS NONSENSE and UPDATE now

hardeep September 27, 2010 at 4:36 pm