BSNL Gujarat Circle introduced Triple bonanza offers for Prepaid Customers

In view of upcoming Festivals and New Year 2015 Celebration State run Telecom Company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) announced Triple damakha offers across Gujarat Circle.

Revises Landline Pulse Duration for BSNL Mobile N/W & Other Fixed Network BSNL

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.

BSNL Mobile SIM Card Price Slashed upto 35% for New & Replacement

Have you heard this type of discount from BSNL? BSNL the PAN India major with largest user base in wired Broadband segment wants to encourage its Mobile Customers by giving a huge discount for its Prepaid SIM Cards of 128K under GSM Mobile Services.

BSNL which is the king of Rural segment wants to increase the Wireless user base with best deals, it can provide at any pocket of entire subscription chain. Whether it can be the best BSNL Voice Packages, which suits to the best of the wide Indian home user base.

TRAI plans to regulate HD, SD channels’ subscription charges

Telecom and broadcast regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is planning to review the freedom given to direct-to-home service providers in deciding subscription charges for high-definition channels.

BSNL extends the promo period for the broadband plans in Chennai circle

BSNL has been going great guns with excellent offers on broadband and combo connections. As part of its promotional offer BSNL had recently launched ULD Combo 999, ULD Combo 1999 and ULD Combo 4999 in Chennai circle.

BSNL revises Landline Pulse rates on PAN India Basis

BSNL has once again revised the Landline pulse rates making the tariffs costlier in most of the circles. BSNL has been most competent when it came to value for money in the WLL segment. The following revisions are applicable for all the service areas on a PAN India basis.

BSNL has revised the pulse rate for calls to MTNL and other operators to Delhi and Mumbai from 120 seconds to 60 seconds. The Pulse rates for MTNL or any other operator in Delhi from adjoining SDCAs is revised from the previous 90 seconds to 60 seconds.

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

List of GPRS & 3G International Roaming Partners

GPRS & 3G list of foreign operators as on

Non Streaming Handsets not support Mobile TV

3  Skypephone S1

3GNET  G2266

3GNET  G2288

3GNET  G2628

Streaming Supported Terminals

Following handset supports for Streaming Mobile TV :

3  Skypephone S2
3  Skypephone S2x
A Vendor  A terminal3

Book complaint of Blackberry related service

Contact No : 1505 (From BSNL n/w)
1800 180 1505 (From other n/w)
Email : bbsupport@bsnl.co.in

Go-Green Intiative of BSNL

In general everybody will suggest hell lot of things but in practice practically to follow the suggestions who had given them, they themselves will not follow. But BSNL is not that type of company, BSNL being committed to hold torch for going Green which was already implemented by offering loyalty reward points to BSNL customers.

Free & Payment Static IP Internet Address Broadband Customers

Generally Broadband Customers requires a Static IP Internet address for certain services or applications which they use typically i.e. like Running own Mail Server, (or) Many VPN (Virtual Private Network) implementations require one or both sides of the VPN to have a Static Internet Protocol (IP) address, (or) Connecting to own company network which need access through their firewalls etc.. and many more .

Introduction of Add-on packs under postpaid mobile services

I Single Bill for Maximum five mobile numbers:-
(i) Single Bill will be issued if a customer wants to get a single bill for maximum five
 numbers e.g. father wants a single bill for all his family members.
(ii) Customers will have to convey their consent for availing the single bill option in an
 application with signature of all the interested group members.

BSNL 121 reward program offered by M/s Pyro Network Pvt. Ltd

BSNL 121 reward program offered by M/s Pyro Network Pvt. Ltd With VAS service providers.BSNL 121 reward program, under which VAS service providers who have signed the agreement for VAS retail services will provide free of cost the contents as mentioned in the table given below to the customers for period mentioned against each service. After this period, if customer gives consent for provision of the service then customer will be charged and the amount will be shared as mentioned at point no. V. Free rewards/contents will be given on the recharge of below mentioned recharges / top-ups. However, other features of the plan vouchers/STVs/Top-ups would remain same.

DoT to rope in private firms for Digital India

In a change of strategy, the department of telecommunications has now decided to rope in private agencies to roll out the R21,000-crore National Optic Fibre Network, as it sees this as the only possible way to meet the fresh deadline of March 2016 set by the Prime Minister’s Office, against December 2016 earlier.

BSNL proposed to merger Plan for Small SSA

BSNL proposed to merge smaller SSAs in UP(E), UP(West), Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh

Rs 8,900cr in taxes pending against LIC, SBI, BSNL : Panel

Pulling up Revenue Department for its "inefficiency" in tax recovery, a Parliamentary panel has said that nearly Rs 8,900 crore is pending against just three public sector companies, LIC, SBI and BSNL. The Public Accounts Committee said taxes over Rs 4.08 lakh crore were uncollected in FY 2012 and in FY 2013 the amount was Rs 4.86 lakh crore. "Keeping in view the pendency of such cases in various courts for a long period of time, the Committee would reiterate that the Department of Revenue should take concrete measures to realise revenue in a time bound manner by pursuing these cases vigorously.

600 Graduate Engineer & 1600 diploma holder apprentices in BSNL

BSNL has decided initially to engage 1600 diploma holder apprentices having diploma in Electronics, Electronics & Telecom. and Computers & IT at various places in BSNL field units as per attached distribution of seats.

Transfer & Posting of JTO's in MH Circle

MH Circle issued Transfer & posting of 07 JTO's on 18/12/2014 , who have completed their Tenure . 07 other JTOs as Substitute have

CBI searches BSNL general manager's house, offices

New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) The CBI Thursday searched the residence and offices of BSNL general manager A.K. Gupta, who was allegedly running three companies without taking permission from the government.
The searches were conducted at two locations in Noida in Uttar Pradesh and one at Hauz Khas in Delhi.
The companies were allegedly being operated by the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) official and his wife.

1. Posting order of DR-TTA in Pune MH Circle -- View order
2. Tenure Transfer & Posting of Shri Prayag Dutt , SDE from NE-1 to UP(W) -- View order
3. BSNL Holiday List for Year 2015  click here for order

BSNL pensioners demand industrial DA

Petition submitted to Seventh Pay Commission to fix minimum pension as 67 % of last drawn pay

The All India BSNL DoT Pensioners’ Association (AIBDPA) has demanded the extension of the 78.2 per cent industrial dearness allowance (IDA) currently given to the employees of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited to the pensioners as well. It has submitted a petition to the Seventh Pay Commission to fix the minimum pension payable to the pensioners of BSNL and the Department of Telecommunications as 67 per cent of the last drawn pay, according to K.G. Jayaraj, All India General Secretary of the AIBDPA.