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Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks
State-run telecom service provider, BSNL, has been struggling a lot these days due to the lack of 4G services. Rivals and private telecom operators are providing 4G services to the customers and aggressively investing a lot to increase the overall 4G footprint. But BSNL is not getting any required support from the government, even right now. According to our sources, BSNL is deploying a total of 8,500 eNode-Bs [ 4G sites] across the 20 telecom circles where it has operations. In Mumbai and Delhi circles, MTNL has operations and the rest 20 circles are handled by BSNL for telecom services. Also, by deploying the 4G sites, BSNL will selectively discontinue the 3G services in the areas where it has selected for 4G launch. We already know that BSNL has 4G services in various circles like Kerala, Gujarat, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh & Telangana and so on, but the telco is working hard to improve the 4G coverage.
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Right now, our sources indicate that BSNL is deploying a total of 8,500 4G sites in the country. As you might be aware of, BSNL does not have any spectrum for 4G services, but the company is deploying 4G sites by ‘selectively discontinuing’ the 3G services. Now, what doe that ‘selectively discontinuing’ mean? Well, unlike Airtel which is aggressively phasing out 3G network to become an LTE-only operator, BSNL will phase out 3G network only in the areas where the usage is minimal. As mentioned above, BSNL is selecting areas for launching 4G sites and those areas are selected based on the minimal 3G footprint.
