BSNL plans Rs 4,300 crore network spend in 2018-19

STATE-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) has claimed it has outperformed private sector rivals such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular in net subscriber additions in 2017-18, and plans to build on the gains by spending Rs 4,300 crore for network expansion in this fiscal year. “Net percentage subscriber additions of BSNL is the highest at 11.5% in 2017-18,” BSNL chairman Anupam Shrivastava told a national daily. He added that industry statistics...

MTNL to invest Rs 400 crore for 1800 towers

MAHANAGAR Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) will invest Rs 400 crore for installing and commissioning 1,800 mobile towers over the next 8-10 months to improve coverage and data speeds for its subscribers.
The loss-making telecom corporation said it has lined up the financing for the project from banks.
MTNL’s losses stood at Rs 2005.74 crore during the financial year ended 2015-2016 (FY16), which narrowed...

BSNL to invest Rs 7000 cr to arrest call drops

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) will be investing around Rs 7,000 crore to install 21,000 new mobile towers to improve its services. The state-owned company, however, said it has the lowest number of call drops when compared with private sector rivals.

BSNL is working on a three-fold strategy that includes network expansion in all circles including the Northeast where call drop ratio is a little higher, conducting drive tests and network optimisation as well as infrastructure sharing with private players to further ease network congestion and, hence, services. BSNL is in talks with Vodafone India and Bharti Airtel to formally ink intra-circle roaming (ICR) deals.
"We are in the process of investing Rs 7,000 crore in radio...

Cabinet nod for financial aid to BSNL, MTNL

GOOD news for the employees of the state-owned telecom operators BSNL and MTNL. The government on August 5 gave its nod for hiving off BSNL's tower business into a new company as well as compensating it and MTNL Rs 627.20 crore for 800 MHz CDMA spectrum that they surrendered.
Reports say that the Union Cabinet has given 'in principle' approval for hiving off mobile tower assets of BSNL into a separate entity...