Loyalty Reward Point Scheme For BSNL Landline and Broadband Customers

BSNL's Loyalty Reward Point Scheme is a innovative reward program through which loyal customers get reward points when customer uses BSNL Land line and Broadband services. Reward points earned can be redeemed in terms as Free Metered Call Units (MCUs) for making free call on BSNL "On Net" calls.

Telecom secretary Rakesh Garg pulls up BSNL executives for 'Delayed Decisions'

KOLKATA: Telecom secretary Rakesh Garg has warned that top Bharat Sanchar Nigam executives could face administrative action if "delayed decisionmaking" on their part results in a failure to meet the March 2016 deadline set by the Prime Minister's Office for concluding the national broadband venture.

BSNL Music / Video on Demand charges revised and offers Unlimited services

BSNL VAS provides Music/Video on (MoD) demand services per month charges revised and makes it unlimited usage for Broadband customers.

BSNL Announcement: Pre-paid STD charges reduced to 35 Paise per minute!

BSNL has announced a new concession for its customers on pre-paid mode.

Under the new special scheme STV 84, concession is offered for all STD calls.

If the customer buys the pre-paid special voucher for Rs. 84/-, STD calls will be charged at 35 Paise per minute. This voucher is valid for 84 days.

BSNL EVDO Data Plans

Currently only BSNL EVDO gives unlimited data usage without any FUP  i.e. you can use as much data you want. EVDO is simply 3G version of CDMA technology and 1X is 2G version of CDMA technology. You can get max download speed of 3.1 Mbps and upload speed of 1.8 Mbps, and with 1X download speed of 155 kbps.

Digital India programme - Slow progress imperils high-speed network

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious Digital India programme is in serious danger of being derailed if the pace of work of the National Optic Fibre Network (NOFN), which aims to link the country’s 2.5 lakh villages through high-speed broadband services, is anything to go by.

BSNL & UoH Offers PG Diploma in Telecom Technology Management

BSNL has set up a world class multi-gigabit, multiprotocol convergent IP infrastructure that provides convergent services like Voice, Data & Video through the same backbone & Broadband Access Network. On continuing the same in all fields, BSNL NATFM joins with UoH to offer PGDTTM Distance Learning College Course for Degree & Engineering Students after Graduation.

To build further skills of the students in Telecom Technology,

BSNL Revises Landline Pulse Duration for BSNL Mobile & Other Fixed Network

BSNL is going to revise its tariff in 2015. It is not a thunderbolt but most expected in today’s market. It’s like a calculated expected hike from BSNL Landline,WLL(Fixed) and CDMA segment. BSNL has played a good strategy rather effecting directly to customer pockets budget with its revised pulse rate….Good option.

Department of Telecommunications wants all Machine-to-Machine servers based in India

A panel under the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has recommended that all the application servers and gateways that are used for machine-to-machine (M2M) services, must be located in India. The panel has suggested so on the grounds of national security. The DoT panel has also recommended that M2M service providers (MSPs) should be jointly governed under the regulations of the specific industry vertical where such M2M services are deployed along with DoT.

Government promises yet another Incentive for the loss making BSNL and MTNL, Is it a wise decision?

BSNL has some good news in store as IT and Telecom Minister Mr. Ravi Shanker Prasad has announced that the Government would be giving out incentives to BSNL and MTNL in a bid to help it revive. Its no secret that both the state-owned Telcos are posting huge losses thanks to their poor service quality and the lethargic manner in which they resolve customers problems.

TRAI to notify new norms on call drops by next year, will it make any difference ?

“Hello, are you there?” We frequently fave call drops and with no standard definition of a dropped call the telecom regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is likely to issue new regulations and penalties on the same by early 2015.
It is reported that there would be higher penalty for telecom operators which are found offering inefficient services leading to call drops. The calls are dropped due to the lack of frequency spectrum and base transceiver stations, which are inadequate at present to cater to the growing mobile subscriber base in India,” according to the industry reports.

MTNL announce new schemes on Good Governance Day

As part of Good Governance Day celebrations, telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today announced new schemes and services for Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL) subscribers in Delhi and Mumbai.
MTNL Jodi Plan
Under this plan, MTNL prepaid subscribers can pair their mobile or landline to make calls at reduced rate of 20p/min. The paired number should be an MTNL number within the city. Call rates to other network local and STD calls will at a reduced rate of 40p/min and 50p/min. On activation of the plan subscribers will also get 100 minutes of local calls to MNTL network and 200MB data for the first month.

Know , How IDA increase is calculated?

We have been reporting the increase in IDA every three months, always before official announcement is made.

We have not been making predictions or assumptions. Our reporting has always been based on standard calculation used for the purpose. We feel that the members also should be aware of the calculation. Hence this article.

The IDA rate revision is based on All India Consumer Price Index. After Second Pay Revision w.e.f. 1.1.2007, the base index has also been revised to 1.1.2007, which is 126.33