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In an attempt to provide greater benefits to the 2G and 3G mobile service users and expand its current current GSM network capacity, India’s National Telecom Backbone Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) gives telecom gear contracts to ZTE.
ZTE will now support 10.15 million BSNL’s GSM lines (2G and 3G) across the country and thereby help increase its subscriber base.
Under this partnership, ZTE will be involved in planning, financing, engineering, supply, installation and testing, commissioning and annual maintenance of the GSM lines. The procurement of these lines for expansion of 2G and 3G services will cover all BSNL telecom circles in Northern & Southern Zones.
BSNL had been citing capacity constraints were inhibiting it from making profits and competing with private mobile phone companies like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular.
“We are excited to partner with BSNL to support their ambitious growth plans in North and South India. We are confident that this association will help BSNL to offer competitive mobile communications that can meet the present and future telecommunication needs, and help ZTE boost its business in the Indian sub-continent.” - Cui Liangjun, Chief Executive Officer, ZTE India.
sudar June 11, 2013 at 9:22 pm
Well done
Sudar June 11, 2013 at 9:09 pm
Make all towers 3G right from Rural
ram August 7, 2012 at 9:14 pm
It is nice agreement to develop our government telecom sector. Please use our own country network.
Megha July 6, 2012 at 9:03 am
Its good to see some progress in the procurement of 3G Equipment by BSNL. I am not overwhelmed that it has brought equipment from ZTE, but at the same time I would say that other vendors like Nokia Simens, Alcatel, Erricson charge exorbitantly for the equipment, Installation and Annual Maintenance, which increases the overall maintenance expenditure. This is quiet feasible with operators like Airtel which has only 40,000 staff. Where as BSNL with around 2 lakh employees and around 80000 trained engineers can handle this if given an opportunity. More ever when most of the electronic equipment are made in china from ipods to the heavy machinery, I think we should not be so skeptic about the quality of the material, and also I believe that BSNL will strive to improve its service, and we have to ensure that, because its the only government company and if it quits there there is every possibilities that all the telecom operators will form a syndicate and charge according to their whims and fancies.
Saurabh July 5, 2012 at 4:33 pm
Pagal hai kya tu? BSNL sirf telecom services provide karti hai. Telecom ke equipments nahi banati jo khud sab kuch kar le. Telecom equipments har company dusri company se hi kharidti hai. BSNL ne koi apne aap ko ni bech diya ZTE ko, bas network expansion aur maintenance ka contract diya hai. Kissi cheez ka pata naa ho toh pata karna chahiye naaki faaltu comment maarne chahiye.
HIMANGSHU July 5, 2012 at 3:51 pm
BSNL ne khud apna company ko chala nahi paya hai, isliye kisi aur dusra company ki madat le raha hai….. so sameless in Indian government services, FLOP services by Indian Govrnment…..BSNL Boss Sale Nikal Le…….India se
I45 July 5, 2012 at 3:14 pm
I think this will also be cancelled citing security reasons or requirement like the contract shold be given to two firms or other firm may appeal against this or other indian operators
Jagannath July 5, 2012 at 9:45 am
Best of luck BSNL. Customer suffers from various problems. I think this should be in a proper way and become a customer friendly service provider.
deepak July 5, 2012 at 1:42 am
@abhijith
bro, quality is good i guess so coz we have seen in airtel,aircel,reliance etc. in my view quality will be downgrade only because of bsnl staffs negligence. in south india only bsnl doing bit ok but in rest of india,hopeless. lets hope for good only…
sai July 4, 2012 at 8:34 pm
all the best to BSNL and ZTE to make good network to our rural india
abhijith July 4, 2012 at 7:19 pm
@deepak
ok brother quality of Zte lets wait and see . . No option others . . .
deepak July 4, 2012 at 5:02 pm
@abhijith
no brother don’t think like that, majority indians and few chinese engineers will work. if project goes to Ericsson $100+ per line money will go abroad, zte is giving only 50$ per line. moreover half of bsnl investment will come back to india as engineer salary. i hope indian engineers love mother india. also zte equipment s are more advantage and flexibility. up gradation is not a issue in zte equipment. overall super power USA used zte equipments than why not india….
abhijith July 4, 2012 at 4:41 pm
@ARJUN CHANDRASHEKAR
@Tharun George
@ashokumar
but stability of network cannot compromise with the cost . . In telecom equipment airtel is with Nokia Siemens , Alcatel .. They are not compromising with qualiTy . . Not in coverage because 1800mhz have its limitations . . Others Bsnl Zte , aircel huewai others no idea . . . So i feel airtel is best . Bsnl wait and see under Zte . . Hope wont disappoint us . . All have to wait and see . . . Or is this another telecom scam ?
ARJUN CHANDRASHEKAR July 4, 2012 at 4:19 pm
@abhijith
Yes I Agree That Chinese is not Trust Worthy, But Do You Know How Much a Telecom Network Organization Spends for Ericsson/ Alcatel Equipment? Almost for 10000 Base Stations They Need To Spend More Than a Crore
ashokumar July 4, 2012 at 2:36 pm
+11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
Tharun George July 4, 2012 at 1:58 pm
Chinese companies can only quote lowest in BSNL tenders.
ZTE and huawei are worlds largest supplier of 3G USB modem. All telecom in inda including Vodafone, Idea, Airtel, Aircel, Docomo, use their 3G modem.
Huawei is the largest China-based networking and telecommunications equipment supplier and the second-largest supplier of mobile telecommunications infrastructure equipment in the world (after Ericsson). Its products and services have been deployed in more than 140 countries and it currently serves 45 of the world’s 50 largest telecoms operators.
ZTE is the world’s fifth-largest telecoms equipment maker measured by 2011 revenues (after Ericsson, Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia Siemens Networks).
Source: Wikipedia
Regarding the Security concerns, it was never proved and Huawei and ZTE got security clearance from Government subsequently.
abhijith July 4, 2012 at 1:01 pm
@Gokul
in Tamil nadu airtel is with Alcatel . .. Not Zte
abhijith July 4, 2012 at 12:56 pm
@ashish
is they better than Alcatel , Ericsson , siemens
ashish July 4, 2012 at 12:29 pm
because china is 10000 times advanced(better) in science and technology than India
Gokul July 4, 2012 at 12:18 pm
ZTE was with Airtel ,Reliance, Docomo, now with Bsnl . When to find an Indian telecom supplier ??
Outsourcing India started outsourcing
Saurabh July 4, 2012 at 12:03 pm
Good to see BSNL finalizing contract after a long long time. As per the latest information, ZTE will ship telecom equipments from this very month. I hope we get BSNL 3G in towns of Haryana and Punjab as expansion is both for Northern and Southern regions and they also strengthen their 2G network which is so far worst in Haryana alongwith Airtel. If it happens, people across towns in Haryana will be happy to taste BSNL 3G as Idea is the only operator thus far.
Looking forward to it though it may take atleast 6-12 months.
abhijith July 4, 2012 at 11:34 am
Why Chinees network ? Y not Nokia Siemens , Alcatel , Ericsson ?! Why Bsnl going for cheaper way to kill their network by allowing chineese to look their network . . Its not safe for India chineese hackers can easily hack Bsnl network and stole our data . . . .
abhijith July 4, 2012 at 11:28 am
Why Chinees network ? Y not Nokia Siemens , Alcatel , Ericsson ?! Why Bsnl going for cheaper way to kill their network by allowing chineese to look their network . . Its not safe for India chineese hackers can easily hack Bsnl network and stole our data . .
hj91 July 4, 2012 at 11:21 am
dont trust the chinese companies. they will install backdoor access in indian mobile network and disable/disrupt services at their will.
or is bsnl connectivity so bad because they use guaranteeless chinese maal?