Telecom minister
Ravi Shankar Prasad said the government is committed to revive BSNL and a
number of initiatives are in the pipeline to bring the PSU back to the
position of market leader.
New Delhi: State-run BSNL is targeting a revenue of Rs.500
crore in the current financial year by utilizing its land bank.
Besides, the telecom operator is also looking at revenue gains from
monetisation of 75,000 towers, training centre and seven telecom
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BSNL has set a target of generating Rs.500
crore revenue from utilizing land bank, although the estimates for
revenue realisation from other initiatives could not be ascertained. The
company is planning to enter into intra-circle roaming pacts with other
operators to monetise its network of over 75,000 base tower stations
(BTS) or mobile towers.
According to sources, BSNL officials gave a presentation
to telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad recently, which highlighted the
company’s turnaround plan. BSNL, which has got 82 land parcels, will
also be augmenting its GSM mobile capacity in the current fiscal.
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The operator is planning about 14,736 2G and 10,914 3G
base tower stations in 2015-16. Apart from that, it will be integrating
its wi-fi hotspot and LTE (4G) with the existing GSM network. Telecom
minister Prasad had asked BSNL to improve quality of services,
especially in border and extremist-affected areas, in a bid to become
market leader and win back people’s confidence.
The minister said that the government is committed to
revive BSNL and a number of initiatives are in the pipeline to bring the
PSU back to the position of market leader. Prasad is also undertaking a
series of meetings with MPs to make telecom officials directly
answerable to Parliamentary representatives so as to have a first-hand
account of public sectors’ performance, problems faced and possible
solutions.
Prasad has directed DoT to call five such meetings so
that all Members of Parliament are given opportunity to raise issues
directly with concerned officials. BSNL’s profits started declining from
Rs.10,183 crore in 2004-05 before recording a loss in 2009-10.
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