Only a few months ago, we saw a slew of long term plans from all the telecom operators. Reliance Jio started the stream of the year-long annual prepaid plans for its subscribers and other telcos followed in the footsteps. In a related development, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) the state-owned telecom operator has come out with a new year-long plan of Rs 1,312 which carries a validity of 365 days.... Read More
State-run telecom service provider, BSNL, is trying very hard to retain its subscriber base as the Jio GigaFiber's commercial launch is around the corner. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has now introduced a new Mega Cashback Scheme under which it'll be providing 25% cashback for users who choose the company's yearly broadband plans. At the same time, the country's largest wired broadband service provider also revised several broadband plans to offer... Read More
The Indian Government has returned the 4G spectrum to the state-owned telecom operator, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) which it had surrendered eight years ago to the government. To recall, back in 2010, during the first 4G auction in India, BSNL was allotted the spectrum in 2500MHz band in all its circles, however, it had surrendered the spectrum in its six expensive circles including Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra... Read More
BSNL has introduced a new FTTH broadband plan priced at Rs 1,277 which joins the company's FTTH plans such as Rs 777, Rs 3,999, Rs 5,999, Rs 9,999 and Rs 16,999. This new plan is valid across the country and offers 100 Mbps download and upload speeds along with a monthly FUP of 750GB. Overall, with its Fibre-to-the-Home broadband plans, the leading wired broadband service provider in the country is... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the government led telecom operator was one of the telcos which was troubled by the intensive data tariff war. However, now it seems that the telco is taking great measures to solidify its position in the Indian telecom sector. The only thing left wrong with BSNL previously was its lack of 4G network, but now the telco has started to take some steps regarding this.... Read More
BSNL has a wide-range of prepaid plans in all the 19 circles where it has operations. To take on the Rs 509 prepaid recharges from private telcos such as Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio, the telco had rolled out a Rs 485 prepaid plan last year. This prepaid plan used to offer 1.5GB data per day for 90 days, however, as part of the company's Bumper Offer, it's... Read More
Telecom regulator Trai today recommended that spectrum charges for state-owned BSNL's satellite phone services be fixed at 1% of the revenue accrued from such services, replacing the current model of the formula-based levy. If the regulator's recommendations are accepted by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), it could drive down the cost of using satellite phone services by nearly 50%, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) Chairman and Managing Director Anupam Shrivastava told... Read More
The New Year’s eve is drawing closer, and people are already on the task of drafting their New Year’s wishes. However, everyone who wishes to send out new year’s wishes to their contacts via SMS should make note that the pre-new year’s eve i.e. December 31 and the new year’s eve, January 1 every year have been considered as blackout days for many telecom operators. But in its latest move,... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has started offering additional talk time benefit on select prepaid recharges in Andhra Pradesh & Telangana circle. BSNL is providing 66% additional talk time on the company's Rs 252 prepaid recharge. At the same time, it's also shipping extra talk time on the Rs 402 prepaid plan as well. The Rs 252 prepaid plan from BSNL which usually offers Rs 210 talk time now provides... Read More
BSNL is on a revision spree of late. The state-run telecom service provider has now revised seven of its broadband plans across the country. As seen with the company's recent revision of Rs 249 broadband plan, all the broadband plans of BSNL now ships with daily data benefit. BSNL has revised the Rs 675, Rs 845, Rs 999, Rs 1,199, Rs 1,495, Rs 1,745 and Rs 2,295 broadband plans and... Read More
The latest 4G tariff war has badly bruised every telecom operator out there and the government led, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited is no exception. BSNL was one of the first telecom operators to take the hit when Reliance Jio Infocomm made its entry into the Indian market since the operator had not prepared for launching a 4G network in the country and was late to attack. Even now, BSNL is... Read More
BSNL revises its broadband plans for every three months. To recall, Jio introduced the daily data plans in the telecom industry, but BSNL is following the same strategy in the broadband segment as well. Earlier this year, BSNL introduced four plans starting at Rs 99 with daily data benefit up to 5GB per day. But those plans didn't ship with voice calling benefit. In order to provide both voice calling... Read More
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