Anupam Shrivastava News
The execution will be over next two years.
State-owned BSNL's losses have narrowed to Rs 4,890 crore for the nine months ended December 31, 2016, from Rs 6,121 crore in the year-ago period.
Telecom regulator Trai will soon form a joint committee with telecom operators to review tariff rules, telephone numbering plan and work towards making its monitoring more transparent.
Stepping up investments on projects that entail internal funding, state-owned BSNL will pump in about Rs 2,500 crore during the second half of this fiscal in various projects such as expansion of wifi hotspots, installation of mobile towers and strengthening core network.
State-run telecom firm BSNL expects virtual network operators (VNOs) who have shown interest in partnering with it to start providing services by January.
New Delhi:State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd today termed Reliance Jio's entry into the market as a "challenge" for all operators, but said it expects to match the intense competition "tariff-by-tariff".
State-owned telecom operator BSNL has unveiled an app through which its customers travelling abroad will be able to connect their landlines through mobile and make calls through them without attracting ISD charges.
The concept of a 'zero site' is that it can be used as a wi-fi hotspot, street light and camera and the radio units can be hidden inside the pole or underneath.
Department of Telecom has finally given permission to share antenna, feeder cable and transmission systems.
In order to check telecom network quality and improvement in call drop problem, Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad Monday himself conducted drive tests in Indore.
State-run BSNL is working to provide wi-fi services at more airports managed by Airports Authority of India.
In a sign of turnaround, state-run telecom operator BSNL today reported an operating profit of Rs 672 crore for the financial year 2015, aided by fall in administrative costs and jump in revenues.
BSNL has also received interest from Member of Parliaments for setting up wifi hotspots in villages which they have adopted under Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) to make it a model village by 2016.
BSNL mobile subscribers will soon be able to avail free calling benefits offered on their landline phone as the state-run firm is going to roll out a convergence platform that will sync subscribers' mobile and fixed line connections.
A Wi-Fi hotspot offers clients access to the Internet over a wireless local area network.
State-run BSNL will focus on turning around the company into a profitable venture expeditiously, its new CMD Anupam Shrivastava said Thursday.
Government is believed to have approved the long-pending appointment of Anupam Shrivastava as CMD of state-run telecom firm BSNL.
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