The government is mulling to transfer land assets and loans of loss-making BSNL to a special purpose vehicle in an effort to make the state-owned telecom firm a debt-free entity. As per a new PTI report, employees Union of BSNL, however, has alleged that the land parcels proposed to be transferred to the SPV at a value of Rs 20,210 crore are at prime locations of big cities and are... Read More
State-run telco BSNL has been facing a lot of issues due to the financial problems. The new BSNL chief P K Purwar has sought to allay concerns over the possibility of large-scale service disruption due to the telecom company's financial difficulties, saying monthly revenue of Rs 1,400-1,500 crore that the telecom corporation continues to generate demonstrates its "inner strength". "I have revenue earning of Rs 1,400-1,500 crore a month which... Read More
There is no other telecom operator which introduces changes across its portfolio as fast as Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) does. The state-led telecom operator can always be seen making some change or the other, and it’s mostly related to its prepaid plans, broadband plans or its other services. However, it’s been long since BSNL introduced a change to its SIM change prices. To recall, BSNL had made a bold... Read More
Cash-strapped BSNL has started an exercise to 'streamline' outsourced functions for saving up to Rs 200 crore annually, and also hopes to rationalise power bills to derive 15% cost savings, a top official said on Tuesday. BSNL Chairman and Managing Director PK Purwar told PTI that the public sector undertaking faces a gap of about Rs 800 crore between its monthly revenue and expenses (operational expenditure and wages), so "challenges... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), on Monday, said that it has released salaries of employees for payment for the month of July. The salary payments are being funded out of internal accruals, BSNL Chairman and Managing Director P K Purwar told PTI. A BSNL employee union had last week claimed that the salaries of employees for July had not been paid on the due date and they had not been... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has been making numerous consumer centric moves in the market lately to lure the subscribers. To do that, the operator has been launching new offers, content offerings, free subscriptions to services and what not. But, in a new move, BSNL has introduced a step that a lot of its subscribers might not like. The government led telecom operator has announced in a new move that... Read More
BSNL has revised its popular Abhinandan-151 plan that was introduced only a few weeks ago. BSNL Rs 151 prepaid recharge now ships with extra 500MB daily data taking the overall data benefit to 1.5GB data per day for a period of 24 days. Earlier, the state-run telco offered 1GB data per day with the same plan, but now, it has increased the data benefit by 50%. That said, the Rs... Read More
Loss-making telecom PSUs Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and MTNL have failed to clear salaries of their 1.98 lakh employees for July, a union leader said on Thursday. There is no assurance from the management on when the salaries would be paid which are usually credited on the last day of every month, All India Unions and Associations of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (AUAB) Convenor P Abhimanyu told PTI. "Salary for... Read More
The state-led telecom operator has been working to revive its status in the industry, and the only thing that can substantially help the telecom operator in improving its financial condition is the introduction of 4G services in various circles. The telco has already introduced 4G services and network in states like Kerala, some parts of Karnataka and other regions. However, now the telco has announced its 4G services in another... Read More
State-run telcos BSNL and MTNL are reeling under losses right now and there have been merger talks going on for a while now. However, government officials denied the merger of BSNL and MTNL in the past even though reports suggested that merger talks are going on internally. According to a new report, the government is planning to merge both the telcos under the upcoming revival package. For the unaware, the... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited or BSNL has been launching new plans every week. Last week, we saw the telco launching two long-term plans of Rs 1,399 and Rs 1,001 in Andhra Pradesh & Telangana circle, and now, the telco has come up with a Rs 1,188 Marutham prepaid voucher. The Marutham plan is again a long-term prepaid offering from the state-run telecom operator, but the benefits of the plan are... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited’s consumer centric moves have been dominating the market for quite some time now. However, even with that the telecom operator is struggling financially. The thing to note here is that somehow, BSNL is still managing to add subscribers to its base in a market condition where a lot of telcos are losing subscribers. This phenomenon can be attributed to the launch of new prepaid vouchers, introduction... Read More
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