BSNL 4G Networks Might Come in Late 2022, Is It a Good Thing?

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Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is trying really hard to roll out 4G networks across the country, but there’s just one thing, it won’t happen anytime soon. Since the telco has proposed a hybrid 4G tender, it will have to wait for the Indian companies to come up with the Proof of Concept (POC) for their technology before they can be finalised as a part of the tender.

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Recently, multiple Indians companies submitted Expression of Interest (EoI) for the 4G tender of BSNL. The telco will be reviewing the submissions and then asking the qualified companies to submit a Bank Guarantee (BG) of 5 crores and go ahead with generating POC. Under the hybrid 4G tender, BSNL has reserved 57,000 sites across India for the Indian companies and the rest of the sites are for foreign vendors.

However, the Indian companies are expected to take at least 4 months to come up with the POC. After POC, it will take at least another 10 months for the telco to roll out live 4G networks. This means that even without any delays, it will take BSNL at least 14 months from now to roll out new 4G networks.

Thus India won’t see BSNL’s 4G before August or September 2022. On top of this, if there are any delays, it will take even more time for the telco to come out with its 4G networks.

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