Tag: Bsnl

The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has extended Bumper Offer period for prepaid subscribers, which provides additional 2.21GB data per day, till June 30. The telecom major has reportedly updated its prepaid plans to confirm this offer extension. As per sources, the bumper offer was announced back in September last year and was to end […]

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to improve data connectivity in rural pockets of the state, Odisha government has taken up 2925 gram panchayats for broad band connectivity through optical fiber under Bharat Net phase-II program. The decision in this regard was taken at the state level implementation committee meeting chaired by Chief Secretary AP Padhi Wednesday. […]

The State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is facing rough weather with reports suggesting that the company might face difficulties in paying salaries to its employees for the month of June because of financial crunch. To help out the operator in this troubled times, the government has requested banks to provide a loan of Rs […]

New Delhi: Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday blamed stiff competition, high employee cost and no 4G services for the poor financial state of BSNL and MTNL. Absence of 4G services and high employee costs are hitting at the competitive strength of the public sector companies – Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Mahanagar […]

Chennai: Dismissing media reports as rumours, telecom major Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) Tamil Nadu Circle on Tuesday said there is no proposal to close down the company. In a statement issued here, the company said: “There is no proposal to close down BSNL as wrongly reported in a section of the press. Due to […]

With an aim to provide unlimited calling benefit to its subscribers, BSNL has launched a new plan at an affordable price of Rs 151. Despite being in financial crunch, the State-run BSNL has launched ‘Abhinandan-151’ to give a tough competition to private players and woo more subscribers. As per a report published by www.indiatoday.com, apart […]

New Delhi: The government is taking steps to make public sector BSNL more competitive and these include upgradation of technology and capital infusion, Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday. Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the government has inherited legacy issues and steps are being taken to make BSNL more competitive. “To ensure stability in […]

Despite facing the financial woes, the State-run telecom operator BSNL is leaving no stone unturned to add to its subscriber base. With an aim to address the poor cellular connectivity in some areas, the telecom operator has launched the internet-telephony service called BSNL Wings. Subscribers can make calls using the Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) […]

New Delhi: Battling severe liquidity crunch, BSNL plans to aggressively chase outstanding dues from its enterprise clients and is hoping to recover the bulk of over Rs 3,000 crore receivables in the next two-three months, its chairman said. The move comes at a time when Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is facing mounting pressure on […]

New Delhi: Reliance Jio continued to be on a spree on net addition of mobile subscribers adding over 82 lakh new users while Airtel lost 29,883 and Vodafone Idea had to let go of a massive 41 lakh customers as on June 30, 2019, according to data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India […]

Phulbani: After facing numerous problems owing to poor mobile network, residents of Dadaki GP in Phulbani block of Kandhamal district erected a mobile tower on their own. Earlier, seamless mobile network and connectivity was a distant dream for the residents of Dadaki Gram Panchayat, which is located some six to seven kms away from Phulbani […]

In a major announcement on Wednesday, Reliance Jio revealed that due to the undergoing regulatory policy changes for mobile-call-related charges, the Telecom major is compelled to recover interconnect user charge ( IUC ) for NON-Jio mobile voice calls. As per the new policy, all calls to NON-Jio mobile numbers will be charges at 6 paise/minute, […]

New Delhi: State-run BSNL on Thursday said its revival plans are under active consideration of the government through VRS and 4G spectrum allocation. “Recently, there have been published media reports on clsoure of BSNL. It is clarified that there is a plan under active consideration for revival of BSNL by the government by giving suitable […]

New Delhi: With its employee unions threatening a day-long hunger strike on Friday over delayed salaries during the festival season, state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has said that it is hopeful of paying salaries to its 1.76 lakh employees for September before Diwali. “We will give salaries to the employees before Diwali from our […]

New Delhi: The government on Wednesday decided to merge loss-making telecom firms MTNL and BSNL as part of a revival package that includes raising sovereign bonds, monetising assets and voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) for employees. Briefing reporters on decisions taken by the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said […]