BSNL's set to garner around Rs 5,000 crore Revenue from assets monetising

NEW DELHI: In an attempt to bounce back as a profit making entity, state-owned BSNL plans to monetise its assets like land, towers, factories and educational centres as it gets approved by Department of Telecommunications. The company estimates to garner around Rs 5,000 crore annually from monetising its assets. 

Anupam Srivastava, Chairman-cum-Managing Director told Express, “If all the things put together for monetisation we would get around Rs 5,000-6,000 crore every year. We are already in talks with other operators for renting our towers and also with various colleges for turning this huge educational centres into engineering colleges.”

BSNL slashes roaming tariff by up to 40%

State-run telecom operator BSNL yesterday slashed roaming tariff by up to 40 percent for its prepaid and postpaid mobile connection with effect from May 1.

The decision had been taken in the wake of telecom tariff order issued by TRAI, the company said in a statement. Roaming tariff for incoming calls has been cut by 40 percent, STD by 23 percent and 20 percent for local calls.

BSNL may take legal action against operators over dues

State-run BSNL is contemplating legal action against telecom service providers like Loop Telecom, S-Tel, Etisalat among others that have closed their operations but have not paid their dues concerning interconnection usage charges (IUC).
Besides telcos who have shut their shops in India, leading firms namely Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Cellular, Reliance Communications and yet-to-start Reliance Jio Infocomm in all 49 telecom companies owe Rs 1,142.73 crore to BSNL.

Full number portability: Telcos to fork out Rs 200-300 cr

Telecom service providers will have to fork out Rs 200-300 crore to upgrade their networks and install new equipment for implementation of full mobile number portability (MNP) across the country. MNP allows mobile subscribers to retain their numbers while changing their states/circles.

Earlier, full MNP was to be implemented from May 3 but the government has now extended the deadline by another two months as operators are yet to test the new software. Also, for implementation of full MNP, the current networks of operators have to be reconfigured to treat a mobile user's calls in the new circle as local and vice-versa, besides aligning their network according to the new national numbering plan.

LC Chairman, Dy Chairman apprise Ravi Shankar about poor communication network in Ladakh

New Delhi, May 02- Chairman and Deputy Chairman of J&K Legislative Council (LC) today met Union Minister for Communication and Information Technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad and appraised him about the problems being faced by the people of Ladakh region on account of non availability of mobile and Communication Towers.

City to get 10 Wi-Fi hotspots this month

By May 15, the ten Wi-Fi zones in major public centres of the city would be operational, said sources in the BSNL, which is implementing the project in collaboration with the Corporation of Kochi and QuadGen Wireless Solutions.

In the first phase of the project, Wi-Fi facility is being made available at the Corporation office, Subhash Park, Marine Drive, High Court, Kaloor bus stand, Edappally, Durbar Hall Ground, High Court, the Court Complex, Mattancherry and Fort Kochi.

BSNL's complete turnaround by 2017-18 : CMD

Backed by a new management, state-owned BSNL looks to regain lost ground by offering Wi-fi at a speed faster than 4G, across the country. In an interview with Prashant Mukherjee, CMD Anupam Srivastava says the company should witness a complete turnaround by 2017-18 with its data business.

BSNL said to target Rs 500-crore revenue by utilizing land bank in FY16

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 factories. Join us on Facebook Group for all latest News

BSNL Unlimited WiMAX Plan for Odisha OMSM Launced

To support quality education services, BSNL introduced new wireless broadband unlimited internet plan (WiMAX BB plan) WI OMSM UL 600 in Odisha telecom circle applicable for Orissa Madhyamik Shiksha Mission (OMSM) which is under the Govt. of Odisha.
To provide BSNL Broadband connections to nearly 1500 high schools of Govt. of Odisha, where ADSL Broadband Plan ‘OMSM Combo UL 600’ is not feasible, BSNL introduced this new unlimited wireless broadband plan with 512 Kbps flat download speed for Orissa Madhyamik Shiksha Mission with a discounted monthly rent of Rs.600 only.

Free Public WiFi Services at a speed faster than 4G

State run PSU - Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), is trying hard to regain market share and customer satisfaction by offering Free Public WiFi Services at a speed faster than 4G, across the country.

Recently, government approved the appointment of Shri.Anupam Srivastava as the new Chairman and Manging Director (CMD) of the PSU. The new CMD is very much confident about the turnaround of the company by 2017-18 with it's data business.

E-Auction of CDMA RUIM Fancy / Vanity Mobile Numbers

BSNL Kerala Telecom Circle will be conducting 'E-Auction of CDMA RUIM Fancy / Vanity Mobile Numbers' from 04-05-2015 to 10-05-2015 through online portal - http://eauction.bsnl.co.in. Mobile Numbers having some specific sequence, often termed as - Vanity / Fancy / Premium Numbers are available for this e-auction.