Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) offers a perfect prepaid plan to users who want more data but are looking for a plan with short-term validity. This plan costs Rs 140 and comes with service validity of 30 days. Users get 2GB of daily fair-usage-policy (FUP) data along with truly unlimited voice calling and 100 SMS/day. But this plan is only available for the RNSBL customers of Gujarat, the telco says.... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is working on rolling out 4G networks in India. The state-run telco still offers 4G data vouchers to the users. There are many affordable 4G data only vouchers available from BSNL under Rs 100 that you can buy. The private telcos had late last year introduced 20% to 25% prepaid tariff hikes, which had made their 4G data vouchers quite expensive. BSNL was the only... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is offering additional validity with its long-term recharge plan. But this offer is only there for a limited time. The offer that we are talking about will only be there till January 15, 2022. This means that users have one day to recharge with the offer because, after that, they will miss out on the additional “90 days” of validity. You heard it right. BSNL... Read More
The telecom market in India is hugely dominated by the three private telcos – Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea. These telcos offer a massive range of prepaid plans curated according to the need of their users. The state-owned telco BSNL, on the other hand also offers prepaid plans with amazing benefits but mostly gets overshadowed in front of the private giants. BSNL is one of the largest and... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), in its response to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) consultation paper on “Auction of Spectrum in Frequency Bands Identified for IMT|5G”, said that the ecosystem for the 600 MHz spectrum band is not ready yet. The state-run telco noted that it would be the first time that frequencies in the 526-698 MHz would be put to auction for the telcos. BSNL said that... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has launched four new budget prepaid plans in India. The state-run telco has introduced three prepaid plans under Rs 200 and one prepaid plan for Rs 347, but with a medium-term validity. All the new plans introduced under Rs 200 come with a validity of 28 days, while the Rs 347 plan comes with a validity of 56 days. Let’s take a look at the... Read More
It hasn’t been long since the last relief package of Rs 70,000 crore was announced for the state-run telecom company, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL). Now, at the dawn of 2022, the government is mulling about another relief package for the telco. As per a FinancialExpress report, preliminary talks between the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and BSNL officials regarding the same have already started. What Will Be the New Relief... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has been struggling for more than a decade now to operate the telecom services business in India. At the same time, Vodafone and Idea’s merged entity — Vodafone Idea (Vi) has been trying to stay afloat in the stiff competition of India’s telecom industry. Private operators including Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel have only been profitable amongst all the operators, which, to be frank, aren’t... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is offering free 4G SIMs to new users as well as users who want to port in from another telco’s network. The state-run telco had announced the offer for customers on October 1, 2021, and it was supposed to end on December 31, 2021. But the company has extended the offer for the customers and now it will end on completion of FY22, i.e., March... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has run into yet another roadblock. The state-run telecom company was trying to monetise land assets in Chennai, but the Tamil Nadu government has red-flagged the move. The Tamil Nadu government has communicated with BSNL that it can’t move ahead with selling the land without the ‘consent’ of the state government. BSNL was trying to sell more than 54.6 acres of land and was estimating... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is offering free 5GB of data for 30 days to users. But not every user is eligible to get hands-on free data. Only new users switching to a BSNL SIM would be eligible to get 5GB of free data from the state-run telco. Further, the offer is only valid till January 15, 2022. BSNL is running a new campaign called ‘#switchtoBSNL’. Note that the validity... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a state-owned telecommunications service provider (TSP), is trying to come out with 4G using homegrown equipment and core. Earlier, the government nominees on the board had said no to the upgradation of 13,533 in western and southern India to 4G because Nokia was going to be the partner for equipment. Thus, BSNL is currently working with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for rolling out homegrown 4G.... Read More
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Tested speed?
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Anything above 0.5 GB per day is useless in JioPhone, most go for 91 plan only. If they allowed same…
You can use it. I ported one number in Jio and started using in JioPhone with JioPhone plan. No issue.…
Any particular reason why you are saying that Jio postpaid Rs 399 is beneficial?
