Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL)

Monday, October 20, 2008

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. formed in October , 2000, is World's 7th largest Telecommunications Company providing comprehensive range of telecom services in India : Wireline, CDMA Mobile , GSM Mobile, Internet, Broadband, Carrier Service, MPLS-VPN, VSAT, VolP services, IN Services etc. With a span of five years it has become one of the largest public sector unit in India.

BSNL has installed Quality Telecom Network in the country and now focusing on improving it, expanding the network, introducing new telecom services with ICT applications in villages and wining customer's confidence. Today, it has about 47.3 million line basic telephone capacity, 4 million WLL capacity, 20.1 million GSM capacity, more than 37382 fixed exchanges, 18000 BTS, 287 Satellite Stations, 480196 Rkm of OFC Cable, 63730 Rkm of Microwave Network connecting 602 Districts, 7330 cities/towns and 5.5 lakhs villages.

BSNL is the only service provider, making focused efforts and planned initiatives to bridge the Rural-Urban Digital Divide ICT sector. In fact there is no telecom operator in the country to beat its with its wide network giving services in every nook & corner of country and operators across India except Delhi & Mumbai . Whether it is wide bouquet of telecom services.

BSNL is numero uno operator of India in all services in its license area. The company offers wide ranging & most transparent tariff schemes designed to suite every customer.

BSNL cellular service, Cellone , has more than 17.8 millon cellular customers, garnering 24 percent of all mobile users as its subscribers. That means that almost every fourth mobile user in the country has a BSNL connection. In basic services , BSNL is miles ahead of its rivals , with 35.1 millon Basic Phone Subscribers i.e. 85 percent share of the subscriber base and 92 percent share in revenue terms.

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BSNL has more than 2.5 million WLL subscribers and 2.5 million Internet Customers who access Internet through various modes viz. Dial-up, Leased Line, DIAS, Account Less Internet (CLI). BSNL has been adjudged as the NUMBER ONE ISP in the country.
BSNL has set up a world class multi-gigabit, multi-protocol convergent IP infrastructure that provides convergent services like voice, data and video through the same Backbone and Broadband Access Network. At present there sre 0.6 million DataOne broadband customers.
The conpany has vast experience in Planning, Installation, network integration and Maintenance of Switching & Transmission Networks and also has a world class ISO 9000 certified Telecom Training Institute.

Scaling new heights of success, the present turnover of BSNL is more than Rs. 351,820 million (US $ 8 billion) with net profit to the tune of Rs. 99,390 million (US $ 2.26 billion) for the last financial year. The infrastructure asset on telephone alone is worth about Rs. 630,000 million (US $ 14.37 billion).
BSNL plans to expand its customer base from present 47 millions lines to 125 millions lines by 2007 and infrastructure investment plan to the tune of Rs. 733 crores (US$ 16.67 million) in the next three years.
The turnover, nationwide coverage, reach, cimperhensive range of telecom services and the desire to excel has made BSNL the No.1 Telecom Company of India.

BSNL Registered & Corporate Office

Bharat Sanchar Bhavan

Harish Chandra Mathur Lane

Janpath, New Delhi-110001