The start of the new financial year will not be bringing joy to MTNL's broadband subscribers in Mumbai circle. MTNL has revised its broadband tariff and hiked its FTTH and VDSL plan tariffs. The revised rates are effective from April 1, the company said on its website. The monthly rental for the MTNL's broadband plan Fibre Thrill 4000 has been increased by about 25 %, while that of the VDSL plan... Read More
Telecom minister Ravishankar Prasad has refuted all rumours that have been going rife about the possibility of shutting down of public sector unit MTNL. Earlier we reported how talks about shut down of 5 PSUs were rampant out of which we only knew for sure about 3 units of HMT which is a watch manufacturing company as Heavy Industries minister Anant Geete had disclosed during the questioning hour. The identities... Read More
As we predicted some months back, the Government will be in its move in shutting down a bunch of losses making PSUs which also includes the state-run telecom MTNL. India has totally 251 PSUs amongst which 65 are reportedly put under the scanner for being the loss-making ones. The five PSUs which will be closed down include HMT which was one of the early pioneers in manufacturing watches and tractors... Read More
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), the state-run telco operating in Delhi and Mumbai, has reported yet another quarter of net loss Rs 730.83 crores for the third quarter ended December 31, 2014. Similarly, (MTNL) recorded a Rs.733.23 crore net loss for the first quarter (April-June) of 2014-15. The company had reported a net profit of Rs 428.03 crore in the corresponding quarter last fiscal, MTNL said in a filing to... Read More
The state-run telecom operator MTNL has started offering one of the lowest tariffs for 3G data in Mumbai. MTNL has launched a pack offering 1GB 3G data for Rs.152 with 30 days validity. In comparison, other 3G players in Mumbai offer Rcom Rs.177, Airtel Rs.249 and Vodafone Rs.251 for 1GB 3G data with 30 days validity. As of now this offer is launched as a limited period offering but later... Read More
State-run telecom operators MTNL and BSNL have declared that they will not be participating in the upcoming spectrum auctions. MTNL and BSNL have said they have sufficient spectrum to carry on their services without disruption at the moment and see no immediate requirement for the same. The state-run operators had stayed away from November 2012, March 2013 and February 2014 spectrum auctions as well. Telecom minister Shri. Ravi Shankar Prasad... Read More
As part of Good Governance Day celebrations, telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today announced new schemes and services for Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL) subscribers in Delhi and Mumbai. MTNL Jodi Plan Under this plan, MTNL prepaid subscribers can pair their mobile or landline to make calls at reduced rate of 20p/min. The paired number should be an MTNL number within the city. Call rates to other network local and STD calls... Read More
MTNL has raised Rs 1,500 crore by selling bonds to institutional investors on Monday at 8.41 % annual rate and the funds would be used to repay debt. "We floated a Rs. 1,000 crore 10-year-bond issue, which was fully subscribed. We have received bids worth Rs. 1,500 crore from investors and we will retain the full amount using the green-shoe option," according to a report. However, the amount raised will be... Read More
State-run operator Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) has posted a net loss of Rs 834.22 crore in the second quarter of this fiscal. Down from Rs 947.1 crore loss posted in the same quarter last year. For the quarter ended 30th September, total income from operations increased to Rs 850.7 crore. Which is lesser than Rs 856.02 crore posted in the same quarter last year. Revenues from basic (Fixed line)... Read More
MTNL Mumbai has launched a special 3G data offer this festive season. Users can now avail 1GB 3G data for just Rs 99. This is the cheapest 1GB 3G data pack available in the market as of now. Note that there's an additional Rs 2 plan activation fee. You can activate the plan by sending an SMS RCH 99 to 444. MTNL is not the first company to offer cheaper... Read More
We missed this earlier but MTNL Mumbai has launched new Bullet plans offering interesting high speed plans with FUP and unlimited data. The plans start at Rs 1,111 for 2Mbps speed and go up to Rs 1,444 per month for a speed up to 10Mbps. Plan Name Monthly Charges Speed(Download/Upload) Free Data Usage Additional Data Usage Charges Bullet 1111 Rs. 1111 2 Mbps/768Kbps up to 250 GB 33 GB Rs.... Read More
In order to help voters make informed choice, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) today announced special offer of 50MB 3G data usage for its all 3G prepaid data users in Mumbai. MTNL data customers will get to enjoy 50MB additional free data on purchase of prepaid 3G data packs. This is not applicable for all 3G data packs of Rs 100 and above. Apart from above 50MB 3G data offer... Read More
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