In a chase of capturing the telecom market, BSNL is not letting its attempts lag behind other telcos in releasing new and attractive plans. The new plans by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited all come with unlimited data and without any weekly or monthly cap on the STD or Local calling. BSNL has named their new prepaid plans as the BSNL Happy Offer plans, below we discuss the various Happy Offer... Read More
Himachal Futuristic Communications Ltd (HFCL), the telecom equipment maker, today in a BSE filing revealed that it received an advance purchase order worth Rs 579 crore (approximately) from the state-run telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) for building the 2G network in Assam. For the unaware, Assam and North East regions are one of the undeveloped telecom regions in the country, and BSNL is now looking to build a... Read More
BSNL is the leading broadband player in the Indian market with over 10 million subscribers under its belt. The reason for BSNL topping the chart is it started the operations way back in 2004, and another reason is that it has broadband tariff plans in every price segment. Starting at Rs 249, the government-owned PSU's broadband plans stretch up to Rs 3,000 and beyond for FTTH plans. Once such plan... Read More
BSNL has caught a whiff of fraudulent activities by the staff of Aircel and has taken the required step of going to the Telecom Enforcement, Resource and Monitoring (TERM) Cell in Chennai. BSNL is also seeking assistance from Trai and is planning to take the matter to the regulator if these illicit activities on Aircel’s part continue. The reason why BSNL had to approach the TERM is because they found... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is slowly catching up with private telecom operators in terms of postpaid tariff plans. Earlier, the telco was nowhere close to the private telecom operators, but now, the revised BSNL postpaid plans are in-line with those of Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular. BSNL's Rs 1125 postpaid plan competes with Airtel's Rs 1199 postpaid plan and offers better benefits that Vodafone RED International R... Read More
Countering Reliance Jio and its Rs 251 prepaid IPL plan, state-run telecom operator BSNL has now come up with a Rs 248 prepaid STV plan offering a whopping 153GB, which converts to 3GB data per day for a period of 51 days. BSNL says that "This will be useful for our subscriber to stream live IPL matches at a very economical rate." The IPL 2018 is scheduled from April 7... Read More
National telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has introduced a new entry-level special voucher of Rs 39 that offers free roaming voice calls to any network in Delhi and Mumbai. The company’s latest voucher aims to promote its prepaid plans which though offer unlimited voice calling service in all areas, are not applicable to major cities of New Delhi and Mumbai. The latest recharge plan seeks to make the company’s... Read More
BSNL has been enjoying a lot of success of late, thanks to the operator's affordable tariff plans and aggressive marketing in rural areas. A senior official of BSNL in Kolkata state said that the telco has added 1.2 million subscribers via the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) service in the financial year 2017-18. That's a small number as private operators would be receiving a lot of MNP requests every month, according... Read More
BSNL has been on a roll of late as the telco is adding new consumers in a large number. Today, the government-owned PSU has officially confirmed that it has added more than four million new subscribers in the month of March 2018, of which 1.2 million subscribers were added through Mobile Number Portability (MNP) service. The MNP subscribers were mostly of Aircel network because the telco filed for bankruptcy last... Read More
Last month was an exciting one for top telecom operators in India as millions of Aircel customers have ported out from the ailing telco to other top networks. State-run telecom operator, BSNL has now confirmed that it added 1.1 million new customers in Tamil Nadu state alone in March 2018. The telco has posted a couple of images on Twitter, which confirmed these numbers. That said, most of these additions... Read More
This is the second time in the week that a report relating to Aircel has surfaced which talks about another telecom operator approaching the already bankrupt company to recover their dues. This time it happens to be the government-run entity, BSNL who has approached the Communications Ministry in a plea to recover their services. Previously, two big private telecom operators- Idea Cellular and Vodafone India have also been seen preparing... Read More
In the race of capturing the telecom market, companies have been going head on over each other to come out with the most attractive prices, offers and plans to lure the customers in. BSNL, Airtel and Reliance Jio have strategically planned their prices, and all three of them have launched data packs which are priced at Rs 349. The same pricing does make the task of choosing the right plan... Read More
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