State-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) is geared up to expand its GSM network strength across India. It has invited bids from independent telecom infrastructure providers to hire towers for expanding its GSM wireless network.The operator looking for towers in some 600 to 800 small towns and in Metro cities like Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Bangalore and also in the some outer areas of Mumbai and Delhi. With this... Read More
India's largest telecom and broadband service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is geared up to provide more speedy broadband internet service with its PSTN network with the new expansion phase. BSNL will deploy UTStarcom's B1000 multi-service access node (MSAN) solution throughout India to add approximately 475,000 ports of capacity to its existing broadband network, allowing additional subscribers to experience triple-play services. BSNL and UTStarcom have extended their existing partnership... Read More
Soma Networks and state operator BSNL plans to launch compact WiMAX-enabled devices in India within six months. It will co-market the product of Soma a US-based provider of mobile Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) products and services along with telecom service provider state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL). We are trying to make broadband as accessible and affordable as the mobile phone is to a rickshaw puller right now,”... Read More
Valuation and security concerns are taking a toll on state own Telecom Operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd’s (BSNL) network expansion plans objections have also been raised over the company’s choice of mobile equipment vendors on security grounds. BSNL,which has around 60 million subscribers, clocked revenues of over Rs 38,000 crore in 2007-08 however, the company has been losing market share to private operators such as Bharti Airtel just because of... Read More
The communication ministry of India has asked state-owned BSNL to test and examine all the equipment provided by the Chinese vendor Huawei and has told the state own telecom operator to start looking at maintenance of its own networks a senior BSNL official said, "The BSNL has received a letter from the Department of telecom with regard to some instructions on testing all the equipment provided by Huawei before installation... Read More
India's largest telecom service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) for the first time in India launched range of Next Generation Network (NGN) services such as video telephony, video surveillance and mobile advertising services.Voice over Internet Protocol will provide a long awaited video calling and video conferencing services to the people of India,BSNL Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) Kuldeep Goyal told reporters on Saturday after launching the Voice and Video Service... Read More
BSNL Chennai announce the introduction of two Special Tariff Vouchers for BSNL Prepaid Mobile users; which would help them save lot of cash. The first voucher is called the Booster 300 which allow Unlimited Free call to TamilNadu & Chennai BSNL phone, and the second is called the GPRS 230 with Unlimited GPRS usage with in Chennai and also in TamilNadu State area. Here are the Details 1.BSNL-Booster 300- The... Read More
BSNL is all set to lauch its 3G service in Bangalore by mid july but the commercial lauch is expected by end of December. Bangalore will be the second city in South India to get 3G mobile services from BSNL after Chennai, where the service was launched in February this year. BSNL 3G mobile services are currently available in 10 north Indian cities. In Bangalore to begin with, 200,000 lines... Read More
India's largest Broadband and Land line service provider BSNL, is ready to roll out a new High Speed 'Prepaid Broadband' service segment on the lines of prepaid mobile coupons, where subscriber can buy a recharge coupon to top up the account, instead of paying a monthly rental. BSNL Prepaid Broadband could be the next to change the game for the rising Broadband-Internet market. Currently BSNL Broadband(wire line) user has to... Read More
The MobileStore, India’s leading mobile retail outlets chain announced forging a tie-up with state-run PSU BSNL to retail the operator’s services across its outlets. Rajiv Agrawal, CEO cited that we aim to provide customers with the entire bouquet of BSNL services ranging from Fixed Lines, Internet, CDMA & GSM Mobile Connections, Recharges and more. BSNL customers at The MobileStore will get a wide choice of handsets including BlackBerry phones and... Read More
BSNL has tied up with cell phone major Nokia for bundling 3G handsets along with its services. Nokia India Head, Operator Channels, V Ramnath said Nokia India has partnered BSNL in bringing to Indian consumers 3G services on a host of Nokia devices such as Nokia 3120Classic, Nokia 5320, Nokia N79, Nokia N81, Nokia E71 and the Nokia 5800Xpress Music will be offering BSNL 3G services. Owners of these devices... Read More
BSNL has put on hold its ambitious 3G network plans for Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar the problem being that Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has mandated a fine of Rs 50,000 for mobile service providers who choose to erect towers on buildings that do not have Building Use permission. This permission happens to be absent for 65 per cent buildings in the city. BSNL being a government set-up cannot pay a "fine"... Read More
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These sites include 4G/5G both? I am doubtful that it is just 5G count.
Jio doesn't care about tariffs as they have recovered investments. Now it's just about going steady 10-15% hikes. I am…
The plans you mentioned will never happen in reality. Airtel doesn't have backhaul to support these plans that's why they…
Jio/Airtel 4G is not worth using, use either Vi or BSNL.
Oh..So I can't test Vi 5G from this free 1 GB per day. (Sad)
