Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has been under a lot of pressure financially because of losing subscribers and low revenues. The telco’s 4G tenders have been time and again interfered with and delayed. After a long time, a little development related to the 4G tender of the company has emerged. According to an ET Telecom report, Indian vendors, for whom BSNL has reserved 57,000 4G sites nationally, submitted Expression of... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) offers 4G plans even though it doesn’t have a PAN-India 4G network. There are a few customers of the telco who live in the region where it provides 4G network services. If you are unaware of what BSNL offers under its 4G prepaid plans portfolio, you will be surprised to see the value they bring to the table. BSNL 4G plans are very unique and... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) hasn’t been the best performing telecom operator in India since the advent of 4G networks of Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea. Looking at the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) report for the individual months of the last quarter of FY21, it is evident the telco hasn’t been growing at all whatsoever. As per the data shared by TRAI, in the month of... Read More
Reliance Jio and BSNL both offer a 90 days 4G prepaid plan to their customers. While BSNL has been offering its 90 days plan for a long-time now, Jio’s entry in the segment is fairly new. Reliance Jio has started offering new plans with 15, 30, 60, 90, and 365 days validities. The interesting thing is, BSNL’s 90 days 4G plan is significantly cheaper than that of Jio’s. Reliance Jio’s... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has been under a lot of scrutinies for its bad performance over the last few years. But the telco has survived somehow, and it has also added subscribers at regular intervals. While the numbers for BSNL that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) report of March 2021 show aren’t too big, they are still on the ‘green’ or ‘positive’ side. It is the principle... Read More
Reliance Jio, the number one telecom operator of India, has regained its subscriber addition rate as the telco outperformed its major competitor Bharti Airtel in March 2021. The telco added the most number of subscribers and beat Bharti Airtel by a long margin during the month. According to the Monthly report from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), Jio added 79,18,129 (close to 8 million) subscribers in March 2021.... Read More
Much recently, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), along with defence and aerospace contractors, were attacked by suspected Chinese sponsored hackers. According to a Money Control report, the information on allegation comes from Recorded Future, a company that provides intelligence for enterprise security. Inskit Group, Recorded Future’s threat research division, further said that RedFoxtrot, a China-backed hacker group, has aimed at several non-governmental and governmental companies in South Asia and Central... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Vodafone Idea (Vi) are two of the four telecom operators in India. Both the companies have a substantial number of subscribers in their portfolio. While one telco is struggling to roll out its 4G networks, the other is struggling to raise capital and expand the reach of its 4G networks. There are many who believe that either of the telcos won’t survive in the... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) want their ex-employees back. Both the telecom operators have sought for the Department of Telecommunications (DoT’s) permission to rehire their employees who left the telco under the Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS). According to a report from the IndianExpress, the state-run telcos want these employees to come back in the capacity of consultants. BSNL and MTNL Facing Employee Shortage Issue... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has been facing a lot of problems in rolling out 4G networks PAN-India. The telco might have had live 4G networks in several cities of India by now if its initial tender wasn’t interfered with. It doesn't have the money nor the resources to roll out 4G networks right away. However, there's one thing that needs to be answered, does India need BSNL’s 4G? The... Read More
Just a couple of days back, Reliance Jio came out with new prepaid plans that offered users data without any daily fair-usage-policy restrictions. These plans are good for people who don’t want to be restricted by a certain data limit if they have the need for more data on a given day. But BSNL’s data voucher very comfortably beats Reliance Jio’s Rs 247 plan launched recently. The BSNL’s voucher is... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has just announced a new promotional offer for the Bharat Fibre customers. For the unaware, Bharat Fibre is BSNL’s fiber broadband service. The state-run telco has just announced a new offer for BSNL Fibre Customers under which they can save up to Rs 600 on their broadband plans. Since it is a promotional offer, it will stay in effect for 90 days starting from today,... Read More
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If they already reached 482 million, I wonder in how many months it will reach 500 million customers. Their ARPU…
Vi just showing their greedy face more than ARPUtel these days. With minimum spectrum and network, they want to take…
it would be harakari for vodafone to increase tariff, as it will only benifit 5g players
That is good enough speed as per 4G standard, and you get cheaper plan. You could dial *#0011# and show…
Tested BSNL 4G, on Band 28 coverage is best, speed also 10mbps to 40mbps with 10mHz
