Showing posts with label TRAI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TRAI. Show all posts

Thursday, February 14, 2019

Govt asks BSNL to explore all options for revival, including closure: Media

BSNL CMD Anupam Shrivastava
THE government has asked BSNL to explore all options, from a revival plan to disinvestment and even closure, as it looks to tackle the bleeding at India's largest loss-making PSU.
The direction to the company - which had accumulated losses of Rs 31,287 crore at the end of 2017-18 - was given following a meeting of top BSNL officials with telecom secretary Aruna Sundararajan, a national daily quoting sources said.
BSNL chairman Anupam Shrivastava made a presentation to the...

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Lifeline: MTNL narrows Q1 loss to Rs 731 crore

STATE-run telecom firm MTNL has reported narrowing of standalone loss to Rs 730.64 crore in the second quarter ended September 30, 2017 mainly on account of reduction in employees remuneration and benefits. The PSU had posted a loss of Rs 768.32 crore in the same period a year ago.
The employees remuneration and benefits, which accounts for about 70-80 per cent of MTNLs total income, reduced to Rs 623.19 crore in the reported...

Saturday, April 22, 2017

MTNL chief bats for merger with BSNL

STRONGLY pitching for merger of BSNL and MTNL, MTNL CMD P K Purwar described the merger as "desirable" for operational synergy and even the fiercely- competitive telecom market needs such a combination for a stronger pan-India play. His comment assumes importance in the wake of latest renewed push for BSNL-MTNL merger with a...

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

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...

Saturday, June 25, 2016

MTNL to submit roadmap for revival by August; may partner with BSNL

STATE-run telecom firm MTNL will submit its revival plan to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) by August this year which aims to turn the loss making PSU profitable. “We are in advanced stages of finalising the report on the revival plan for MTNL and will submit it to the DoT by August,” MTNL CMD PK Purwar told news agency PTI.
On the revival plan, the CMD said it includes...

MTNL to submit roadmap for revival by August; may partner with BSNL

STATE-run telecom firm MTNL will submit its revival plan to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) by August this year which aims to turn the loss making PSU profitable. “We are in advanced stages of finalising the report on the revival plan for MTNL and will submit it to the DoT by August,” MTNL CMD PK Purwar told news agency PTI.
On the revival plan, the CMD said it includes...

Monday, May 23, 2016

Soon, BSNL to unveil online wallet SpeedPay with SBI

STATE-run telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) will join hands to launch a countrywide online wallet ‘SpeedPay’ in a month. SpeedPay will have the potential to take on the leading players in the market. BSNL and SBI will approach their respective nodal ministries to enable the use of the...

Monday, April 20, 2015

Seeking revival package BSNL employees to go on strike; Find out their 21 point charter of demands

IF YOU are a BSNL customer get ready for disruption of services on April 21 and 22 as the forum of BSNL unions/associations of non-executives and executives have given a two-day strike call demanding that the union government and BSNL management take immediate steps for revival of BSNL and ensuring financial viability of the once crowning jewel of the country.
The unions have already served a strike notice to the chairman and managing director of BSNL, secretary, department of telecommunications and minister of communications and IT on March 12.
Various unions of BSNL...

Saturday, March 7, 2015

BSNL to partner with cable operators for broadband services

BSNL CMD A Shrivastava
BHARAT Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is in talks with private cable operators for offering broadband services using cable network for last-mile connectivity in small cities and towns.
“We are in talks with various cable operators to use their access to each and every household. It will be a profit-sharing arrangement,” BSNL’s chairman and managing director, Anupam Shrivastava, was quoted as saying in a national financial daily.
The state-run telecom major has already experimented with such a model in few locations...

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Allow BSNL establish new gateway for satellite phone services, recommends TRAI

IN A bid to address the needs of security forces while tackling insurgency and other security-related issues, telecom regulator TRAI has recommended that BSNL be allowed to set up a new gateway for providing satellite phone services.
"The DoT may authorise BSNL to establish Gateway immediately under 'sui generis' category," Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said in its recommendation. This comes following demands...