BSNL to Soon Offer Data Connectivity Services via SMS in India

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BSNL to Soon Bring Data Connectivity via SMS Option

As noted earlier, BSNL and a French company Be-Bound has joined hands to brings SMS via data connectivity option to India. Commenting on the partnership BSNL’s Chairman and Managing Director, Anupam Shrivastava said, “We were trying to get SMS based data service technology on our own but learned that Be-Bound has already developed this technology and has been given a patent for it. This technology is very good to support operations of apps when there is no Internet connection.”

This service will work with the help of an app that will first detect if the user’s area has poor network connectivity and if it does the app will send commands to the Be-Bound server. The same app will also work in a way to send SMS from the user’s account in order to keep the data connectivity ongoing via SMS service.

It is worth noting that this service will be limited to just 100 SMS per day for BSNL users, which Be-Bound Country Manager Harkaran Singh Sachdev believes is sufficient for Indians. To recap the history, this particular service was first introduced in France following which it was being tested in some of the African countries. As for India, BSNL is said to be in the talks with select apps.

BSNL Making Consumer-Centric Moves in Recent Times

BSNL has been implementing new features every now and then. Earlier this month, the telco partnered with Eros Now to offer free content to its prepaid subscribers. It also modified various other plans to offer better data benefit, and at the same time, reduced the validity of some plans. BSNL also converted its broadband plans to daily data plans, which might be followed by other Internet Service Providers as well.