Everyone who has followed the telecom industry closely for a few years now wants BSNL to come out with its wide-scale 4G operations. This is because it will change the competition scenario in the market. Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has said that it doesn’t want foreign companies manufacturing the 4G equipment and network for BSNL. The last 4G tender of BSNL got cancelled because of the border tensions between India... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is making several changes in the broadband sector. After hiking the Bharat Fiber installation charges, the company has now reintroduced the Work@Home broadband plan which will allow the company's landline users to enjoy a free broadband connection. BSNL has been providing this Work@Home plan ever since India entered into lockdown in March. This will also help the company's landline users to migrate to a broadband... Read More
The Central Executive Committee (CEC) of BSNL Employees Union (BSNLEU) on Friday asked the BSNL unions and associations to “create compulsions on the government” for removing “road-blocks” in launch of BSNL 4G service. According to the BSNLEU, its CEC held a two day online meeting on September 10 and September 11, 2020, passing resolutions on multiple issues including the “denial of 4G technology” to BSNL. The CEC is said to... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited or BSNL recently launched its IPTV or Internet Protocol Television service in Kerala circle. In western countries like the United States, IPTV service is very famous amongst the users. Even in Canada, a lot of people are familiar with the IPTV service, but in India, the technology is still in nascent stages. We only have a handful of players like Fastway Transmission and BSNL offering IPTV... Read More
The All Unions and Associations of BSNL (AUAB) said that it decided to observe a Black Day on October 1, 2020 over the denial of 4G technology to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL). The umbrella organisation of all the employees’ unions of the state-run telecom operator on Tuesday said in a circular that the “cancellation of BSNL’s 4G tender has done great harm for the revival of BSNL.” It has... Read More
BSNL keeps on introducing new offers and plans for its customers to keep them happy. There are some really unique prepaid plans which the telco offers and none of the others do giving an upper-hand to BSNL. Yet the reason why BSNL hasn’t capitalised on the market is that it hasn’t introduced its 4G services yet. Just a few days back we reported on how 4G can change things for... Read More
Multiple Indian telecom operators including state-run Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), Vodafone and Reliance Jio registered higher voice quality ratings in August, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) data reveals. The data released by Trai on Sunday on its MyCall Portal is said to be generated using Trai MyCall application. Trai said that the data on its MyCall Portal highlights the voice call quality feedback provided by the users on... Read More
Everyone’s wondering including us, ‘Where is BSNL 4G?’ The telco has time and again promised that it will bring its 4G services very soon, but it has been many years now. The world is already shifting to 5G. While 5G is still going to take time to come into India, 4G has become very common and people have become too used to it. At a time such as this, BSNL... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has directed its chief general managers (CGM) across its territorial and non-territorial circles to “draw a clear road map for non engagement of contract labours immediately.” According to a letter dated September 1, 2020, BSNL CGMs were also told that there was “no justification for housekeeping labourers and other contractual stuff such as security.” The operator earlier in May 2020 and September 2019 had asked... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is set to outsource its network maintenance and customer services to keep up with the current “market trends and business requirements.” The development was shared by the BSNL general manager in a letter to the chief general managers across the BSNL Territorial circles on August 27, 2020. According to the letter, the outsourcing model has turned into a “necessity for business growth.” It has been... Read More
BSNL keeps on introducing new offers to lure its customers into purchasing them. One thing that BSNL hasn’t done until now is being able to offer 4G services across the country. This has impacted the revenues of the telco is a major negative way. But to compensate for it and keep motivating people to use their 3G network, BSNL offers cheap plans and with that interesting offers. One such offer... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has introduced a new prepaid plan for its customers PV-1499. BSNL made the announcement of the plan through the BSNL Chennai Twitter account. Much recently the telco announced a revision on the payment collection date for its Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) customers. Until now, the FTTH customers got 21 days for making payments from the date of invoice, but that’s been changed to 15 days now. So the... Read More
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