After new government sets in, there are only good news for state-run telcos – BSNL & MTNL. In the latest development BSNL decides for leasing or sharing its telecom towers across the country. The revenue from tower sharing can boost its present weak financial status.

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At present BSNL has around 73,000 towers of its own and a good number of them are in remote areas which will give good valuation. We can expect Reliance Jio, pan India based upcoming 4G operator in India, will definitely go for BSNL’s towers as Jio tied up with several tower companies – Airtel, Reliance Communications, Viom, Ascend, Videocon Telecom, ATC.

BSNL also plans for leasing out its assets – lands and training centers to other agencies which would earn nearly ? 4200 crore in immediate to next 2 years future.

In June, 2014 BSNL has debt of ? 6448 cr while MTNL’s stands at ?14760cr. In order to improve their economic health govt. of India plans for infusion of ? 39,458 cr to these loss making telcos.

To improve coverage & data speed and to compete against private operators BSNL add IP based 10,502 new Node Bs (for 3G) and 14,263 base transceiver stations (for 2G). While MTNL is going to add 1,080 Node-Bs and 800 BTSs in Delhi and 1,080 Node-Bs and 566 BTSs in Mumbai.

Minister of Communications and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad has asked the heads of two companies to improve their services as the Govt plans for revival. There will be a NOC (Network Operations Center) in Sanchar Bhawan to monitor both the companies’ performance.