India's National Telecom Backbone Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) today announced that it has connected Himachal Pradesh's remote Miyar Valley with its GSM Mobile Service network.
With this initiative 6 villages of the Miyar Valley will now be connected with the rest of world through BSNL GSM mobile service. BSNL becomes the 1st and only one operator which provides mobile services in this region.
BSNL has installed its GSM BTS (mobile tower) at Tinget village (Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh) to provide the seamless GSM Mobile service. Presently the area is connected with the BSNL's land line service.