BSNL infrastructure sharing policy soon

NEW DELHi, July 7 (PTI): The country’s largest telephone company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) will come out with its new infrastructure sharing policy, which will help the operator garner more revenues, in a month’s time, sources said. The company is in the final stages of drawing the guidelines on the policy and will announce it in a month, a highly-placed source in the company said. The policy would spell out the number of towers to be shared, the business model, tower-tenant ratio and the time-frame for the towers would be shared, the source added. The tower business would help the PSU recover from its falling revenues as it is at an advantageous position of having the maximum reach in the country. The company has more number of towers in ‘B’ category circles and villages where private operators have small footprint. It is also argued that other operators would rather use BSNL’s towers than erecting new towers to cut cost. The state-run telecom firm has 50,000 mobile towers, the maximum in the country. source: assam tribune

BSNL slashes STD rates up to 50%

As per the announcement, STD rates for landline services have been reduced from Rs2.40 to 1.20 paise per minute to all networks in general

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New Delhi: State-run telecom major BSNL announced a 40-50% reduction in STD charges of cellular services under various plans on 9 June.

It has also announced to slash the call charges of landline services by 50 per cent.
As per the announcement, STD rates for landline services have been reduced from Rs2.40 to 1.20 paise per minute to all networks in general and ‘sulabh’ plan.

“The intra-circle call charges, to BSNL network and inter circle (STD) call charges to all the networks, has also been reduced by 50%,” BSNL CMD Kuldeep Goyal said. Roaming charges under prepaid and postpaid services have also been revised.

Earlier this year, private telecom operators like Airtel and Vodafone had cut their STD and roaming charges.

BSNL call charges to become cheaper

BSNL call charges to become cheaper
Monday, 09 June , 2008, 14:06Last Updated: Monday, 09 June , 2008, 15:55

New Delhi: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd will cut call charges on its cellular and fixed-line networks by as much as half from June 11, the state-run firm said in a statement.
By end-April, BSNL had 41.3 million wireless subscribers, making it the fourth-largest mobile service provider after Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications and Vodafone controlled Vodafone Essar. http://sify.com/finance/equity/fullstory.php?id=14690846