Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) hasn’t been the best performing telecom operator in India since the advent of 4G networks of Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea. Looking at the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) report for the individual months of the last quarter of FY21, it is evident the telco hasn’t been growing at all whatsoever. As per the data shared by TRAI, in the month of January 2021, BSNL added 83,738 (0....
BSNL – 150 Mbps Plan The state-owned telco, BSNL via its Bharat Fibre connection as well offers a plan that comes with OTT benefits and provides 150 Mbps speed. SuperStar Premium Plus pack from BSNL offers 150 Mbps of speed at a monthly cost of Rs 999. The plan offers a 2000GB data limit beyond which the speed reduces to 10 Mbps. SuperStar Premium Plus pack from the telco comes with multiple OTT subscriptions which include Disney+ Hotstar, Lions Gate, Sony LIV and more....
Government Has Approved Revival Package for BSNL and MTNL In order to revive the loss-making telecom operators, the government has already rolled out a four-way revival plan which will ensure the viability of the loss-making operators. Also, the revival package will boost up the morale of the employees who have been indulged in various strikes to get their salaries on time. As of the revival package, the government will approximately raise Rs 15,000 crore by issuing sovereign bonds....
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is reportedly in the final stage of commercial talks with TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) for deploying 6000 4G sites. The department is working in a systematic way, and to take a technological leap, it also needs to take a risk, Ashwini Vaishnaw, India’s telecom minister, told ET Telecom. Vaishnaw further told the publication that the world is looking at India as a serious nation because it has been able to come out with indigenous 4G technology that can be upgraded to 5G....
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has been up to a lot of activity in recent times. BSNL has also been facing stiff competition from the private telecom companies and as a result, the public telco has to up its game to survive the competition. This means offering competitive services, plans, and other benefits similar to the private telcos. In a similar move, BSNL has now started offering online payment facility to it subscribers....
BSNL is the Fastest 3G Operator in India State-run BSNL was the fastest 3G operator with an average download speed of 2.5 Mbps in July. Idea followed BSNL with 2 Mbps average download speed, Vodafone with 1.9 Mbps, while Airtel network recorded 3G download speed of 1.4 Mbps. Vodafone was the fastest 4G upload network with an average speed of 5.8 Mbps in July. Idea Cellular followed it with 5....
Government-owned BSNL today announced the launch of DRONE Education Initiative in order to improve the proliferation of Digital Education Programme in the country. As part of the same, the leading broadband service provider announced a partnership with IIT Bombay and Yupp Master to offer e-learning programmes. Amidst COVID-19, e-learning platforms are gaining massive traction amongst students and faculty. Being the leading broadband operator, BSNL is now looking to provide e-learning facilities to its subscribers via the fibre network....
Plan Rs 99 Details This plan by BSNL offers free calls worth Rs 50 and offers free data usage of 500MB. This plan also offers free SMS benefits to the users, meaning that customers get access to 100 SMS per month. Subscribers should also keep in mind that including this plan all other BSNL postpaid plans will charge Rs 500 as security deposit in case of a local + STD connection and Rs 2000 in case of local+STD and ISD connection, hence your total one-time cost will come out to be Rs 600 or Rs 2,100 depending on your choice of plan....
Revised Benefits of STV 35, STV 53 and STV 395 The first plan in the BSNL prepaid portfolio to change is the STV 35 which previously used to offer 200MB data. However, BSNL has done a massive flip to this plan, and now the STV is providing 5GB data to the subscribers for a validity period of 5 days. Notably, BSNL has not made any changes to the validity of this plan and it previously also used to offer five days’ worth of data, but now the data offering has been increased by almost 25 times....
BSNL Offers 450GB Data for 90 Days at Rs 551 Private telecom operators stopped providing long-validity data plans to the subscribers. Reliance Jio has a Rs 251 data pack that comes with 51 days validity, while Airtel and Vodafone Idea users can choose data packs with only 28 days validity. Various BSNL data packs on offer right now are Rs 97, Rs 198, Rs 318, Rs 551 and Rs 998....
BSNL Smart Plan Rs 234 Launched: What it Offers to Customers? As mentioned above, the Rs 234 Smart Plan from BSNL is aimed at heavy data users. It ships with an overall data benefit of 90GB and there’s no daily data limit. In several parts of Kerala, BSNL is providing 4G services to the users; So with high-speed data services, BSNL users can really make use of this smart plan of Rs 234....
BSNL and MTNL are India’ Strategic Assets Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told the house that BSNL and MTNL are India’s strategic assets and they have aided people during natural disasters. He admitted they were problems in the but outlined plan to revive them. “Don’t be under this impression that BSNL and MTNL will be shut down. We have infused a revival package in them and I assure you that these companies will not be shut down,” Prasad said replying to queries during the Question Hour....
The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has urged field officers to impose restrictions on the import of unauthorized wireless equipment. Also, it has rugged them to allow the import of mobile signal boosters or repeaters depending on the licence. All Principal Chief Commissioners (Customs) have received an instruction from the CBIC, said the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). It has flagged that unauthorized mobile signal repeaters and boosters are easily available in the grey market and e-commerce platforms as well....
The Network Integration Exercise If we take a look back at the happenings of 2018 and 2019, some of the biggest decisions in the telecom industry of that time were mergers and acquisitions. While most telecom operators were shutting shops, the Vodafone Idea merger was the biggest deal on the table. However, following months after the merger, Vodafone Idea actually found itself in deeper trouble because it started losing subscribers rapidly owing to the network integration exercise of the company....
D2h Cricket Cup Offer Details In an attempt to leverage the Cricket World Cup fever, Dish TV India Limited, the world’s largest single-country DTH Company has introduced the ‘D2h Cricket Cup’ – Predict & Win contest for its D2h customers. This contest is aimed at creating excitement among cricket fans and providing them with an opportunity to win exciting prizes during the Cricket World Cup. The DTH operator has also added that all new & existing D2h subscribers are eligible for this contest....
As informed by a senior company official at Dell Technologies India, the latter was able to register a record annual business growth in the financial year ended December 2021. Dell Technologies India witnessed an annual growth of 64%, the official said on Tuesday. The President and Managing Director Alok Ohrie credited this growth to the prioritisation of the digital transformation by the company to help meet customer needs and improve productivity....
Wi-Fi mesh routers have become very essential for people who are working from their homes. Even after purchasing a high-speed broadband connection, the users face issues such as network drops and irregular speeds throughout their home. The reason behind such issues is the coverage of their Wi-Fi router. Due to a number of factors such as walls and the kind of distance the user is from their Wi-Fi router, network problems arise....
Dish TV, the second-largest Direct-to-Home (DTH) operator in India, has recently added a new channel and removed multiple old ones. The new channel added is ‘Al Jazeera’. For the unaware, Al Jazeera is a news TV channel with a vast and extensive broadcasting network. It is considered a very reliable source of gaining news and information about world politics and more topics. Any content delivered by Al Jazeera is in the English language....
Dish TV HD Upgrade Pricing It is worth noting that with the increased adaptation of HD TVs and with most of the subscribers now switching to HD, a lot of the subscribers on SD Set-Top Boxes are also going to want to switch to HD connections from Dish TV. For this, the older price for upgrading from the SD Set-Top Box was Rs 799, but now the subscribers of Dish TV will have to pay Rs 200 more, that is now the Dish TV HD upgrade will set back the subscribers by Rs 999....
Dish TV, the second-largest Direct-to-Home (DTH) operator of India has recently removed nine channels from its platform. Just like any other DTH operator in India, Dish TV keeps on adding and removing channels from its platform from time to time. Now, the company has removed nine channels from its platform which include multiple news channels. The nine channels recently removed are - Surya Cinema, Surya Bhojpuri, ANB News, Maha Punjabi (Dish TV TP), Lord Buddha TV, Aryan TV National, VIP News, Popular TV, Marathi Active (Dish TV TP)....
