Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) Mumbai offers several 3G STVs (Special Tariff Vouchers) to consumers. These vouchers start at Rs 102. There are both short-term as well as long-term validity plans offered by the state-owned telcos to their users. The plans, which start at Rs 102, range up to Rs 1,999. Let’s take a look at all of these plans and what they offer to the users. MTNL 3G STVs... Read More
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), a state-owned telecom company, has launched two new broadband plans for the Mumbai market. MTNL offers services in only two cities of the country, including Mumbai and Delhi. The two new plans will cost Rs 449 and Rs 3999 to the customers. With both the plans, customers will get unlimited voice calling connections free from the company. Let’s take a look at what users get... Read More
The speed of the internet is a source of concern for the users. While most affordable broadband plans come with a speed of up to 300 Mbps, premium plans from popular service providers offer up to 1 Gbps speed. A few broadband plans from telecom service providers – Airtel, JioFiber, Mahanagar Telecom Nagar Limited (MTNL), Tata Sky broadband, and ACT – deliver 1 Gbps speed. Airtel Xstream Fiber 1 Gbps... Read More
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) has extended the promotional offer on its select special tariff vouchers (STVs) which includes STV 153, STV 259, and STV 409. Post the announcement of the extension, the promotional offer will now run from August 18, 2021, to November 15, 2021. This means that the offer will now be there for additional 90 days. Note that the promotional offer is exclusively reserved for MTNL customers... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) will soon start operating the mobile operations of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) in Mumbai. Officially, BSNL will take over MTNL’s mobile operations in Mumbai from September 1, 2021. The report comes directly from the Times of India (TOI) and suggests that the heavy market competition and depleting number of customers on top of the underutilised infrastructure, including wire networks and cell towers, had hindered... Read More
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected all sorts of industries and sectors in more ways than one, with smaller corporations to multi-million dollar entities being affected by the pandemic. Telcos too have been forced to operate on reduced staffing due to this, as a lot of these people could not go to physical offices. It seems that due to this issue, state-owned telecom service provider Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited or MTNL... Read More
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the government-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), might participate in the 5G trials soon. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) will provide the telco with the necessary spectrum for trials if it submits the fees that’s required to get the permission. While MTNL might participate soon in the trials, the obvious question arises, where is BSNL? BSNL is currently pushing for the... Read More
The merger between state-run telcos BSNL and MTNL is delayed owing to financial reasons. Ravi Shankar Prasad, the minister of Electronics and Information Technology, said the decision has been taken considering several factors. As we already know, the financial situation of both BSNL and MTNL is not in a great position. MTNL, on the other hand, is riddled with high debt at the moment. The minister also said that the... Read More
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) has extended the availability of seven prepaid plans by another 90 days. The plans in question are STV 153, STV 196, STV 259, STV 329, STV 399, STV 409 and PV 1499. These are MTNL's daily data prepaid plans with validity ranging from 28 days to 365 days. The PV 1499 seems to be the best-prepaid plan available from any telecom operator right now because... Read More
Union Minister Sanjay Dhotre has stated in the Lok Sabha that the government has no plans as of now to close the public sector telcos such as BSNL and MTNL. This is a sigh of relief for users of these services since they have been part of the loss-makers and some were predicting an exit for Bharti Sanchar Nigam Limited. The minister shared that the losses incurred by BSNL had... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) might not merge anytime soon. In a recent meeting, a six-member Group of Ministers (GoM) had met and concluded that the merger of BSNL and MTNL isn’t the right way to go. It wouldn’t be beneficial for any party. As per a Business Standard report, a final call on the matter is yet to be taken by the Union... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is going to be operating the mobile network of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) from January 1, 2021. This can be confirmed via a report from Kerala Telecom. Last year on December 10, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) provided the state-run telco with a unified license for all the 22 telecom circles in India. This also included the Delhi and Mumbai telecom circles. So now,... Read More
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Really ! But I think 20-30 % Indians really don't know what is 5G.
Duryodhan excluded. xD
Most of BSNL clerks/non executive staff have been given VRS, CSCs are supposed to be out-sourced now. I don't know…
Wow, this site is also infested with 2rs bots. Negative points to speak facts.
I can see people are feeling the burn :D The consequences will be horrible guys.
