BSNL told to Improve Services and Win back People Confidence

Bharat Sanchar Nigam has been told to improve services and ensure that better quality of signal is maintained specially in the border and extremism affected areas. Union Minister for Telecom and Information Technology, Sh Ravi Shankar Prasad said these at a meeting with the members of Parliament from the States of Bihar, Meghalaya, Manipur and Nagaland.

Press release from MoC&IT

In a press release on dated 28.04.2015 from the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology it has been informed that Bharat Sanchar Nigam has been told to improve services and ensure that better quality of signal is maintained specially in the border and extremism affected areas. Union Minister for Telecom and Information Technology, Sh Ravi Shankar Prasad said these at a meeting with the members of Parliament from the States of Bihar, Meghalaya, Manipur and Nagaland. The meeting was part of the series of meetings planned to make telecom officials directly answerable to the parliamentary representatives so as to have a firsthand account of public sectors performance, problems faced and possible solutions.

Union's Meeting with CMD updates

GS, GS BSNLEU, GS NFTE (BSNL) and GS SNEA (I) met CMD BSNL informally and discussed regarding Secretary (T) meeting to be held on 01.05.2015. We pleaded that DoT / Govt. should extend support to BSNL as assured at the time of BSNL formation. All the dues to BSNL should be paid by DoT immediately i.e. refund of spectrum charges against the 2.5 MHz band surrendered in GJ, MH, KTK, AP & TN circles, Rs. 1250 Cr. Rural Deficit Charges of the years 2012-13 , pending 2013-14, 2014-15 and continue payments, Pension contribution on actual basic IDA Pay instead of maximum of the highest IDA  pay, Refund of Rs 7000 Cr. Income tax to BSNL by doing reconciliation of receipts  of DoT  from BSNL against which IT has been charged, Payment of GPF account without

BSNL - unlimited free calling scheme Launched

Shri. Anupam Shrivastav, CMD BSNL writes to CGMs for wide publicity among public about the about unlimited free calling scheme launched by BSNL including word-of-mouth by employees so as to increase number of landline connections. Letter <<<>>>

BSNL Union News : Mass Dharna on 07.05.2015 and Relay Hunger strike from 19th to 21st May

Conduct meetings at major locations/Exchanges and door to door campaign by deputing office bearers to different SSAs.

Struggle to protect the dignity of the cadre, to protect the cadre from demotion to E1 and E2 scale, to settle the cadre issues.

Harder programmes will follow in case issues are not settled.

Demands:

·  Standard Pay scales of E2, E3, ---- for JTO/JAO, SDE/AO etc upto SGJAG. No demotion of the basic cadres JTO and SDE.

Indian telecom operators see growth in data traffic

Two of India's top three mobile telecoms network operators reported a rise in quarterly profits on Tuesday, helped by strong subscriber growth for mobile data services while strong competition continued to pressure prices for voice calls. Idea Cellular Ltd , India's third-biggest mobile opebehinrator d Vodafone India, and market leader Bharti Airtel Ltd together spent about USD 9.5 billion in the recently concluded government auction for airwaves, betting on the country's significant mobile data potential. With a majority of the country still using more basic "feature phones", India's smartphone market is expected to grow at around 36 percent a year over the next five years, according to consulting firm Zinnov, making the higher margin mobile data business a potentially

New telecom service quality parameters soon: TRAI chief

New Delhi: India's telecom regulator is likely to announce new parameters for improvement of quality of service for telecom operators in a month's time to tackle call dropping and other problems being faced by customers, its chairman Rahul Khullar said here on Wednesday.

He was speaking at the 2nd National Summit on 'IT & Mobile Banking: Digital Transformation of Indian Banking; Enabling Financial Inclusion', organised by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham).

Working to get 50 crore internet connections by 2018, says Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad

The government is working towards pulling off a goal of 50 crore internet connections by 2018, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today.

“Last year, Internet service providers told me that we have got 30 crore Internet connections in India… my plan is by 2018, to make 50 crore Internet connections in India, that’s what we are working for,” Prasad said at an event here.

“I am convinced that in the coming 2-3 years, India will become equal to China as an IT market of the world, I have no doubts about it,” the Minister said.

BSNL Slashed Mobile Roaming Charges upto 75% without any Hike in Subscription Rates

BSNL, our telecom operator has now announced slashed charges upto 75% from present rates for National Mobile Roaming Tariff, which is an exclusive offer applicable for all Prepaid and Postpaid BSNL Mobile Customers with out any hike in subscription/rental charges.

In this April 2015 only, BSNL has announced new exclusive offers for their valuable customers. i.e. Unlimited Free Calling from Landline and now reduced Roaming charges upto 75%. As per TRAI new ceiling rates on Roaming rates, BSNL now slashed the roaming charges drastically to offer the best services with new benefits to their mobile users on Voice charges followed by SMS tariff.

BSNL 4Mbps Unlimited Internet Plan - No Monthly Rent

Trusted brand offers high speed BSNL 4Mbps Unlimited Internet Plan with out monthly rental charges along with Free Landline telephone by allowing many Free Calls per month for broadband users of Madhyapradesh.

As of now this BSNL 4Mbps Unlimited Internet Plan will be available as a promotional offer for Jabalpur, Gwalior, Bhopal and Indore Internet Users of Madhyapradesh. On huge response for this plan from customers of these areas, BSNL now introduced this Unlimited Broadband Internet Plan applicable for all users of entire area of Madhyapradesh.

BSNL 3G Unlimited Internet Prepaid STV Plans Announced

PAN India PSU, launched BSNL 3G Prepaid Unlimited Internet STV Plans for GSM Mobile users as a promotional offer. At present anywhere in the mobile field, you see the concept of unlimited data, for that here is the breather for Haryana and Himachal Pradesh mobile customers from BSNL.

BSNL had announced unlimited prepaid mobile internet with FUP for mobile Data. Yes FUP - Fair Usage Policy for Mobile Data, Yes you heard correctly. BSNL the only Public Sector Company in Telecom world, which is under major revamp and offering the telecom services according with the customer requirements at lowest charges.

BSNL 16Mbps Unlimited Broadband Plan with 1000 Free Calls for 90 days - Launched

BSNL broadband users, r u bored with single digit data speed, now its the time to switch to high speed 16Mbps Unlimited Internet Broadband Plan under VDSL technology at lowest charges with 1000 free calls per month available as a promotional offer for Madhyapradesh Internet Users.

BSNL, the State-Owned Telecom Company, which may the synonymous to phone till late 90’s and now a days with the market opened for private and quality players. After globalisation everybody felt that Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited may fit in to a place somewhere in history. But BSNL bouncing back to hold its premier status by announcing attractive tariff plans for Broadband and Mobile services at affordable cost, according to the customer requirements

BSNL Broadband Users now gets Unlimited Calls to all Networks from 1st May 2015

In our earlier post, we came to know that BSNL is again going to offer Unlimited Free Calling facility across all networks from BSNL Landline Plans, but now BSNL announced this same facility available with Landline Plans is also extended to broadband service customers who subscribed with BSNL Broadband Combo Plans.

This is like old is gold type offer from our telecom operator, and BSNL is taking a risky option for offering this free unlimited calling during 9PM to 7AM to any service across all telecom service providers across India. With this new introduction of Unlimited Calls to all Networks, we can surely expect that this new plan will appears to boost BSNL Landline Connection Spree.

BSNL becomes Part and Parcel of Indians, proved with New MileStone reached in Mobile Data

Why Internet Data consumption is a big thing for the company like our own BSNL and in turn what it matters to us and how BSNL becomes Part and Parcel of Indians. Internet is like next to roti, kapada and makaan.. Do you agree or not.. If not now in near future it will be like that with BSNL Mobile Data and Broadband Services.
You may be connecting to internet for online shopping, e-payment of your bills, e-Transaction, Money transfers, e recharges and many more to your friends and family at any time you want. This is all because of Internet and Internet that too in India Internet is reaching to remote places only by one service provider that is none other than BSNL and its with lowest BSNL Mobile Data Plans.

BSNL Public WiFi Services and Unlimited Free Calling Offer from 1st May 2015 onwards

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has announced the launch of Public WiFi Services and Unlimited Free Calling Offer during from its landline phones. Unlimited Free night Calls are available from BSNL landline phones to all landline and mobile phones of all service provider networks on all India basis from 1st May 2015 onwards.

The scheme for unlimited free night calls, from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m., was announced at a press conference by Chief General Manager of BSNL Kerala - Shri.M.S.S. Rao, on 28th April 2015. Under the scheme, all major landline general plans in rural and urban areas, landline special plans as well as all combo (landline + broadband) plans are covered. 

Relaunched Special Relief Scheme 'SAMADHAAN' Broadband usage bills

National Telecom Backbone Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has decided to re-launch a Special Relief Scheme 'SAMADHAAN' for settlement of disputes in respect of Broadband usage bills for the benefit of existing and ex-customers of Broadband Services across India.

This scheme was initially launched in 2010 and got great response from Customers across India.  The main reason for excess usage bill complaint is the lack of awareness about the appropriate BSNL Broadband Plans by customers. Customers may select the right plan as per their usage / requirement from a wide variety of plans offered by BSNL.

BSNL Revised National roaming tariff from May 1, 2015

BSNL has decided to rationalize its national roaming tariff under prepaid and postpaid mobile services in order to comply with new guidelines issued by TRAI. Here are the changes made in the existing roaming charges-

Prepaid National Roaming Rationalization:

Voice Calls	Existing (Rs./Min)	Revised (Rs./Min)
Pulse (Seconds)	60 Sec.	60 Sec.
Local	1	0.8
STD	1.5	1.15
Incoming	0.75	0.45

SMS	Existing (Rs./SMS)	Revised (Rs./SMS)
Local	1	0.25
National	1.5	0.38
International	5	5

• All the active plans such as Per Second Plan (Rs. 36), Per Minute Plan (Rs. 37), Pyari Jodi Plan (Rs. 75), Jai Jawan Plan (Rs. 99), RTP Plan (Rs. 45), and RTP-FR Plan (Rs. 199) are kept unchanged.