Mukesh Ambani's Jio loses nearly 80 lakh subscribers in just 30 days; BSNL emerges as a gainer
Nov 22, 2024, at 08:19 pm
Mumbai/IBNS: Reliance Jio, India's largest telecom operator, suffered a significant blow in September, losing an alarming 7.97 million subscribers, according to the latest report by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
Kolkata loses 2.67 lakh mobile users in June 2024, highest in the country: TRAI
Aug 28, 2024, at 08:46 pm
New Delhi/Kolkata/IBNS: The number of mobile users in Kolkata circle fell by around 2.67 lakh in June 2024 compared to May 2024, which is the highest in the country, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (TRAI) subscription data released last week.
DoT identifies 600 land parcels and buildings of BSNL, MTNL for direct sale to govt depts
May 29, 2024, at 04:19 am
New Delhi: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has identified around 600 land parcels and buildings owned by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) for direct sale to government departments, public sector undertakings, and government organisations, media reported.
Land T Technology Services, BSNL join hands to enable private 5G network deployments for enterprises
Jun 27, 2023, at 03:30 pm
New Delhi: L&T Technology Services, a leading global pure play engineering services company, announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) to drive and enable global enterprises in their private 5G network deployments.
With new revival package, Govt makes more efforts to pull BSNL out of trouble
Jun 10, 2023, at 08:11 am
New Delhi: The authorised capital of state-run telecom company BSNL has expanded from Rs. 1,50,000 crore to Rs. 2,10,000 crore after the government announced a revival package of Rs 89,047 crore this week.
Narendra Modi govt approves allotment of 4G-5G Spectrum to BSNL
Jun 07, 2023, at 11:30 pm
New Delhi: In a significant move, as part of the revival strategy, the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved the third revival package for BSNL with the total outlay of Rs. 89,047 crore.
Aug 13, 2022, at 03:24 pm
New Delhi: Telecom minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Friday told the employees of loss-making Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd to focus on customer issues and resolve them expeditiously to turn its fortunes in the highly competitive telecom market, media reports said.
Govt has no plans to privatise MTNL: Minister Devusinh Chauhan
Jul 25, 2022, at 06:08 am
New Delhi: The government has no plans to privatize Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL), Minister of State for Communications Devusinh Chauhan has said, putting an end to speculations that the loss-making telecom company would be up for sale.
Reliance Jio added 10 million active users in Feb beating Airtel
Apr 20, 2022, at 09:20 pm
New Delhi: Reliance Jio added 10 million active users in February but lost 3.66 million gross subscribers, indicating that the telecom major has not been affected by the SIM consolidation after the tariff hike last December and has continued its continuing clean-up of low-paying users for the last few months, ET reported.
Monetisation of non-core assets: 6 BSNL,MTNL assets put up for bidding
Nov 22, 2021, at 06:07 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Six properties of state-owned telecom carriers Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) have been put up for bidding on the MSTC portal.
Bharat BillPay onboards BSNL as first telecom operator in ‘mobile prepaid recharges’ category
Sep 27, 2021, at 09:33 pm
New Delhi: Bharat Bill Payment System, the one-stop platform for facilitating all recurring payments across various categories has gone live with the ‘mobile prepaid recharges category’.
BSNL once again back on track of profitability: Indian govt
Jan 11, 2021, at 11:34 pm
New Delhi: The Indian government on Monday said state-owned telecom company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is once again back on the track of profitability.
BSNL introduces India’s first telephony service “WINGS†and Freedom offer-Chhota pack
Aug 10, 2018, at 04:21 pm
Kolkata, Aug 10 (IBNS): State-run BSNL introduced a weekly pack, freedom offer called chhota pack at Rs. 29 for its prepaid mobile customers to mark 72nd Independence Day.
BSNL-Calcutta Telephones launches new broadband combo plan for Rs 1199 per month only
Apr 05, 2018, at 12:08 am
Kolkata, Apr 4 (IBNS): BSNL-Calcutta Telephones has launched a new family broadband combo plan where three pre-paid mobile connections with unlimited calls to any network in India and data facility for a monthly charge of Rs 1199 only, will be offered to the family members on the recommendation of a subscriber.
BSNL unveils new Landline and Broadband plans
Feb 27, 2018, at 12:32 am
Kolkata, Feb 26 (IBNS):State-owned BSNL unveiled new monthly landline plans on Monday.These plans are meant for the new domestic customers residing in Kolkata only.
BSNL unveils new unlimited voice calling recharges at Rs. 99 and Rs. 319
Feb 20, 2018, at 11:03 pm
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IBNS): BSNL unveiled a new special tariff voucher (STV) on Tuesday at Rs. 99 for its prepaid mobile customers that gives unlimited voice calling (local/ STD), national roaming (except in Delhi, Mumbai), with a validity of 26 days.
Cabinet approves hiving off mobile tower assets of BSNL into a separate company
Sep 13, 2017, at 01:10 am
New Delhi, Sept 12 (IBNS): The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given its approval for hiving off mobile tower assets of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) into a separate company, fully owned by BSNL.
BSNL Kolkata Circle setting up 1000 more towers in Kolkata
Mar 23, 2017, at 12:09 am
Kolkata, Mar 22 (IBNS): BSNL Kolkata Circle is set up 1000 more mobile towers for strengthening its connectivity throughout its jurisdiction.
Cabinet approves USOF support to BSNL for Rural Wire-line connections
Sep 22, 2016, at 12:08 am
New Delhi, Sept 21 (IBNS): The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved the proposal to extend subsidy support of Rs. 1,250 crore to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) from Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF), as compensation for deficit incurred by BSNL in operating the Rural Wire-line connections installed prior to Apr 1, 2002.
Sep 04, 2016, at 12:48 am
Kolkata, Sept 3 (IBNS): BSNL West Bengal Telecom Circle is going to connect over 800 gram panchayats of West Bengal over high speed, super-fast Bharatnet connectivity within this year.
BSNL offers special combo voucher for Ramzan
Jun 07, 2016, at 02:18 am
Kolkata, June 6 (IBNS) Telecom service provider BSNL offers promotional combo voucher 786 during the holy month Ramzan festival.
New scheme of BSNL providing Wi-Fi modem with full cashback offer till Mar 31
Feb 18, 2016, at 01:57 am
New Delhi, Feb 17 (IBNS) State-run telecom company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has launched a new scheme for acquiring BSNL Wi-Fi broadband modems at a cost of Rs 1500 wherein customers shall be given Rs 100 per month as cashback for 15 months.
BSNL upgrades the speed of all Landline Broadband customers from 512 kbps to minimum 2 Mbps
Sep 08, 2015, at 01:59 am
New Delhi, Sept 7 (IBNS) Committed to the Government's Digital initiatives announced by PM Narendra Modi, BSNL has decided to upgrade Broadband speed to minimum 2 Mbps at no additional cost for all the Broadband customers on PAN-India Basis from Oct 1.