New Delhi | The Centre has no plans for disinvestment of state-owned telecom player BSNL, Minister of State for Communications Devusinh Chauhan informed the Parliament on Wednesday. “There is no plan under consideration for disinvestment of BSNL,” he told the Lok Sabha in a written reply. In 2019, the Centre had approved a revival plan for […]
New Delhi: At a time when concerns have been raised over equipment of Chinese origin in mobile networks and anti-China sentiments are on a high, the Centre on Thursday said that around 53.4 per cent of state-run BSNL’s mobile network equipment comes from Chinese tech majors ZTE and Huawei. In a written reply to a question […]
New Delhi: In yet another move to keep Chinese technologies companies at bay, the Centre has cancelled the 4G upgradation tender for BSNL as it has decided to come up with fresh specifications for the upgrade process, sources said. The Department of Telecommunictions (DoT) is likely to issue a fresh tender in the next two […]
New Delhi: Coming out in strong opposition to the PSU disinvestment programme of the Modi government for companies like Air India, BSNL and BPCL, RSS affiliate, Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has slammed the move, saying that “strategic sales can be misused by corrupt officials to benefit special business houses”. The SJM’s national committee has passed a […]
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the much-awaited 4G spectrum allocation to ailing telecom PSUS — BSNL and MTNL — and gave in-principle approval to their merger while allowing them to raise sovereign bonds of Rs 15,000 crore for their revival. The allocation of 4G spectrum to them would be done at 2016 […]
Agartala: The mobile and data services of state-run telecom company BSNL due to a fire incident at an exchange in Salt Lake in Kolkata on Monday continue to disrupted on Wednesday in the eight northeastern states, West Bengal and Andaman and Nicobar, officials said on Wednesday. “A major transmission equipment was burnt after a fire […]
New Delhi: State run Telecom Company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, has installed 54,000 towers during 2018-2019, which is higher than the combined figures of previous 3 years. BSNL has also started installing 4G towers during the financial year 2018-2019 and has installed about 5340 4G towers till April-2019, the company said. During the year 2018-19, […]
New Delhi : Reliance Jio led the subscription race in November 2018 adding around 88.01 lakh subscribers across the country, the highest among all the telecom service providers. Data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Friday evening showed that the subscriber base of Reliance Jio by November 30 was around 27.16 […]
New Delhi : Telecom major Reliance Jio led the subscription race in October with an addition of around 1.05 crore subscribers, followed by BSNL, as all the other major players registered a decline in their subscriber base. The subscriber base of the Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio increased to around 26.27 crore, from 25.22 crore subscribers […]
New Delhi : State-owned BSNL on Tuesday launched its Virtual Network Operator Services on a pan-India basis in collaboration with Virtual Network Operators (VNO) Adpay Mobile Payment India and Plintron India. Both the VNOs have integrated their system with BSNL mobile infrastructure and are ready to offer services to retail customers, the state-run telecom service […]
