December 27th, 2018 4:21 PM 30 COMMENTS

BSNL Says Goodbye to Blackout Days in 2019

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

December 26th, 2018 9:16 PM 3 COMMENTS

BSNL Providing 66% More Talk Time on Rs 252 Prepaid Recharge

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

December 24th, 2018 6:19 PM 24 COMMENTS

BSNL Converts Seven Broadband Plans to Daily Data Plans

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

December 22nd, 2018 10:28 AM 37 COMMENTS

BSNL Shifts Its Focus to Consumer-Centric Moves to Survive the Telecom War

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

December 20th, 2018 10:36 AM 2 COMMENTS

BSNL Rs 299 Broadband Plan Now Offers 1.5GB Daily Data Every Month

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

December 17th, 2018 9:10 PM 3 COMMENTS

Postpaid Plans from Top Telcos Which Ship With Free Amazon Prime Membership Worth Rs 999

Postpaid users from telcos such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and BSNL are enjoying superior benefits than those of Idea Cellular and Reliance Jio. Bharti Airtel started the trend of shipping Amazon Prime subscription worth Rs 999 free with its myPlan Infinity postpaid plans and it was soon followed by Vodafone India. Later, in an unexpected move, state-run telco BSNL joined the list. Both Airtel and Vodafone are now providing... Read More

December 17th, 2018 6:09 PM 59 COMMENTS

BSNL Starts Issuing 4G SIM Cards in Chennai and Karnataka Circles, Speed Test Results Spotted

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is aggressively in talks with the government to launch 4G services in the country. However, spectrum allotment is being delayed, but BSNL is not stopping right there. The telco has been testing 4G services in Kerala circle for a while now as the soft launch has been done earlier this year. According to the information we have, BSNL's 4G services are already available in Idukki... Read More

December 8th, 2018 8:30 PM 21 COMMENTS

BSNL Annual Prepaid Recharge of Rs 2,099 Now Providing 6.1GB Daily Data

The government-owned telecom service provider, BSNL, has extended its Bumper Offer, under which it's providing every prepaid user additional 2.1GB daily data on top of the existing data benefit. BSNL Bumper Offer, which earlier used to give a user 2.2GB additional data now revised to offer 2.1GB extra data per day. This new extension is valid until January 31, 2019, and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited also added two new prepaid... Read More

December 4th, 2018 8:42 PM 22 COMMENTS

Government to Split 4G Spectrum Cost in Half With BSNL

Today, the All-Union & Association of BSNL (AUAB) met with the telecom minister, Manoj Sinha to talk on many points and address the problems that BSNL was facing. In the talk, the minister and union members spoke about the strike which was later deferred from the union’s side. Another point of discussion was the cost of the 4G spectrum which is scheduled to be allotted to the government led telecom... Read More

December 3rd, 2018 3:02 PM 26 COMMENTS

MTNL Should Merge With BSNL Based on a Special Purpose Vehicle: MTNL Chairman

The government led debt-ridden telecom operator, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), which operates in Delhi and Mumbai circles has urged the government to package a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) so that the Rs 20,000 crore debts and assets including 1,100 towers, lands and buildings are deleveraged to correct the financials of the company. MTNL has also talked to the government about a merger with BSNL so that the telco will... Read More

November 29th, 2018 8:10 PM 5 COMMENTS

BSNL to Offer Aadhaar Enrolment and Updation Facilities Via its Customer Service Centres Across India

State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) will soon offer Aadhaar enrolment and updation facilities in its 3,000 customer service centres across India, at an estimated project cost of about Rs 90 crore, its Chairman Anupam Shrivastava said Thursday. With this, BSNL joins the roaster of entities like banks and post offices that are authorised by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to offer Aadhaar services. The set up will... Read More

November 29th, 2018 10:28 AM 137 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea Lost Over 8 Million Subscribers in September: Trai

Telecom subscriber base grew marginally by 0.2% to 1191 million with only Reliance Jio adding new customers, according to the data released by sector regulator Trai for September 2018. "The number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 1,189.08 million at the end of August 2018 to 1,191.40 million at the end of September 2018, thereby showing a monthly growth rate of 0.2%," the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India report... Read More

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