The Union Cabinet, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved a revival package for BSNL. The package has a total outlay of Rs. 89,047 crore and includes increasing BSNL’s authorized capital from Rs. 1,50,000 crore to Rs. 2,10,000 crore. Continue reading “Cabinet sanctions Rs. 89,047 Crore for BSNL’s 4G, 5G upgrade”
Opensignal, a globally recognized authority for evaluating consumer mobile experience, has released its most recent report on the Mobile Network Experience in India. Continue reading “Airtel and Jio lead in India’s Mobile Network Experience: Opensignal”
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is a government-owned telecommunication provider headquartered in New Delhi, India. BSNL has wide network coverage in both urban and rural areas of India. BSNL has over 121.82 million customers across India currently. Continue reading “BSNL USSD Codes – Complete updated list to Check Balance, Plan and more”
BSNL has launched the Bharat fiber to the home service where it will offer 35GB data per day at as low as Rs.1.1 per GB and speeds of up to 100Mbps to take on Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel. This move comes at a time where Jio is expanding its GigaFiber to over 1400 cities in the country before official roll out. Continue reading “BSNL Bharat Fiber broadband home service at Rs 1.1 per GB launched”
Amazon and BSNL today announced a partnership, under which select BSNL postpaid and broadband customers will get the Amazon Prime Membership for a year free of cost. Airtel in the past had announced similar partnership by offering free prime membership to select postpaid customers. Continue reading “BSNL offers 1 year free Amazon Prime membership with select postpaid, broadband plans”
The Department of Telecommunications today has approved the state-owned BSNL plan to seek airwaves in the 2100 Mhz band to launch 4G services pan-India. BSNL in 2017 has submitted a detailed project report and in a bid to acquire spectrum worth about Rs 13,885 crore, and sought Rs 6,652 crore as equity infusion from the government. Continue reading “BSNL gets Government approval for 4G services, wide roll out expected soon”
State-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) today announced the soft launch of its Internet Telephony (VOIP) Service “WINGS”, after the TRAI recommendation in October last year and DOT clarification on Internet Telephony, last month regarding Internet Telephony by access service providers. Continue reading “BSNL launches WINGS Internet Telephony Service with audio, video calling and Prepaid Land Line service”
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has introduced a next generation 100G Optical Transport Network (NG-OTN) that will enable it to provide broadband connection with download speed of up to 1,000 mbps. The NG-OTN network was launched by Telecom minister Manoj Sinha in Mumbai. Continue reading “BSNL gears up to offer 1,000 Mbps broadband connection”
The name ZTE may be familiar to many of you out there. Some of you maybe familiar with their smartphones while others might not be familiar with their products but the name would definitely strike a chord in the minds of most Indians. This is because ZTE has very much been on Indian soil since 1999. Their journey began in 1999 and leads all the way upto its first smartphones launch in India in 2017. Let’s take a look at how ZTE has risen and become an integral part of India over a time period spanning nearly two decades.
Continue reading “ZTE to mark its arrival to the Indian smartphone market on February 3rd”
Vodafone and state owned telecom service provider, BSNL have signed 2G intra-circle roaming agreement to use each other’s assets and network strength across the country. This will help Vodafone expand its 2G network further, especially in rural areas and will strengthen BSNL’s network reach in urban areas. Continue reading “Vodafone and BSNL sign 2G intra-circle roaming agreement”
Facebook is testing an Express WiFi service in India and is in talks with Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for a commercial launch. The social network has completed a pilot roll out of 125 rural public Wi-Fi hotspots in the country with a tie-up with state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.
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BSNL is the latest telecom company that is foraying into 4G and is looking forward to launch services in 14 telecom circles, according to a latest report from PTI. The state owned telecom operator has 20 MHz liberalized BWA spectrum in 2500 MHz band in these 14 circles. Continue reading “BSNL to launch 4G in 14 telecom circles”
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has rolled out a pre-paid card linked mobile wallet. Dubbed as Speed Pay, the wallet allows customers to transfer cash, pay for services as well as withdraw cash of up to Rs 1 lakh.
Interrupting my usual Internet binging over a daily 2 hour commute, was a message from my operator. The message said I had exhausted my 2 GB limit for high speed internet this month, and now will be forced to a ridiculously low speed of 64 kbps. Say what?! Yes, I understand the concept of a fair usage policy thank you very much, and hey, apparently, I can either go through with the reduced speeds or order an add-on pack for an additional 250 rupees for a GB of 3G data. How lovely!
Continue reading “Opinion – Why 3G Fair Usage Policy is Retarded”
BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.) has announced several offers for its GSM and CDMA customers on its 12th anniversary. They would offer 20% extra talktime on select top-up voucher, 20% discounts on 3G data vouchers and 3G data cards. Continue reading “BSNL offers 20% extra talk time, discounts on 3G data packs and data cards”
