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Tanay Singh Thakur April 19th, 2022 1:24 PM 6 COMMENTS

BSNL Will Conduct 4G Trials in Four Districts of this State from August

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) will soon start 4G trials in four districts of Kerala in August 2022. This is the same month when the state-run telco is expected to finally launch 4G services for users in India. Initially, BSNL will run a test of its 4G network in four different districts of Kerala including Ernakulam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kannur, and Kozhikode, reported TheHindu. BSNL will further go ahead with a state-wide... Read More

Chakri K March 23rd, 2021 9:22 AM 18 COMMENTS

BSNL Employee Group Asks PM Modi to Hasten the Launch of 4G Services

BSNL Employee Group is now looking for intervention from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to speed up the delayed revival process of the state-run telecom operator. In a written letter to PM Modi, the employee group of BSNL asked to hasten the launch of 4G services in India alongside speeding up assets' monetisation. The Union Cabinet announced a massive revival package worth around Rs 70,000 crore in 2019, but the process... Read More

Chakri K January 1st, 2021 12:00 AM 0 COMMENTS

Indian Telecom Trends 2021: Spectrum Auction, 5G Launch, Public Wi-Fi and More

2020 is now over and we enter 2021 with a lot of hopes. The entire world must be praying for the pandemic to end so that everyday life resumes. 2020 was a great year for the Indian telecom industry as the pandemic helped them increase the Average Revenue per User (ARPU). However, it will go down as one of the bad years where the companies didn't have much to innovate.... Read More

Chakri K November 26th, 2020 10:50 AM 4 COMMENTS

BSNL 4G: Technology Group Opposes Telco’s Views on Using Local Gear

BSNL has received a reply from the Empowered Technology Group (ETG) regarding the comments it made on using locally made gear for rolling out 4G services. The group had allegedly declined to consider BSNL's views on not using local gear. BSNL recently approached the DoT saying it couldn't trust domestic core network. The telco also opposed the government's views of stopping investments on 2G network and deploy 4G networks. We... Read More

Chakri K November 3rd, 2020 7:16 PM 34 COMMENTS

Delay in 4G Rollout and Non-Procurement of 2G Equipment Will Impact Revenues: BSNL

BSNL is seeking a 'fair compensation' from the government for delaying the rollout of 4G services in the country. Besides 4G services, the state-run BSNL also wrote to the government to compensate for non-upgradation of radio equipment from ZTE and lack of providing excellent 2G services to the users because of non-procurement of equipment the development was first reported by ET Telecom. BSNL is still struggling to match the likes... Read More

Bala Yogesh July 7th, 2020 6:12 PM 17 COMMENTS

BSNL Employees to Hold Demonstrations on July 16 Over 4G Roll Out

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) Employees Union (EU) on Tuesday announced its intentions to organize “black flag” demonstrations during the lunch hour on July 16. The BSNLEU said that the demonstration is being held against the cancellation of BSNL 4G tender along with “the road blocks being created in the rolling out of BSNL's 4G services.” Additionally, the main recognized union in BSNL has also listed other demands including the... Read More

Shrijan Soni April 13th, 2020 5:32 PM 2 COMMENTS

Samsung Plans to Participate in BSNL Phase Nine 4G Expansion

Telecom Gear Vendors have started bidding for the 9th phase of BSNL 4G Expansion. Surprisingly, Samsung has also shown its interest in the 4G auctions of BSNL. With the Phase Nine 4G expansion, BSNL has plans to upgrade nearly 50,000 4G sites in all four Zones. Whereas, on the other hand, MTNL has plans to modernise almost 7,000 in Delhi and Mumbai Circle. Apart from Samsung, other gear vendors like... Read More

Chakri K April 12th, 2020 12:37 PM 1 COMMENTS

BSNL 4G is Coming: Tenders For 4G Towers Rolling Out

BSNL 4G is finally coming; the state-owned telco is finally bringing 4G services for its customers. There are 50,000 new sites all across the north, west, south zone, and east where these 4G towers will be installed which has a budget of Rs 11,000 crore. Then there are 7,000 new sites alone in Mumbai and Delhi (MTNL zones) which will require an investment of Rs 8,697 crore. The tenders are... Read More

Chakri K February 1st, 2020 1:53 PM 2 COMMENTS

BSNL Employees Retirement: What Will the VRS Employees Get?

Nearly 78000 employees of BSNL opted for the ‘attractive’ Voluntary Retirement Scheme in one of the largest mass retirement drives across the country. January 31 was the last day for BSNL employees over the age of 50 who put in their papers as part of Centre’s revival package to pull out the PSU out of the financial crisis. To recall, the government offered revival package to BSNL last year as... Read More

Srikapardhi June 8th, 2017 7:21 PM 50 COMMENTS

BSNL Now Said to Roll Out 4G Services by December 2017: Report

There's a question in many Indians mind about the BSNL's roll out of 4G services. The Government-owned company has been saying about the roll out of 4G services since 2014. But the company did not roll out the services yet. According to a new report from The Hindu Businessline, BSNL customers may possibly enjoy the 4G services by December 2017. The report states that "BSNL Kerala will roll out 4G... Read More

Esmail September 9th, 2015 6:11 PM 46 COMMENTS

BSNL playing defensive, will launch 4G by March 2016 to take on private telcos : Report

Bharat sanchar nigam Ltd. the largest PSU has declared that it will launch its 4G services in 14 circles where it holds spectrum in band 41 by the end of current financial year which is around March 2016. This comes as a reaction to the 4G launch plans by private operators and BSNL's fear of losing out subscribers to them through MNP. Bharti Airtel has already launched 4G operations across... Read More