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Articles tagged with: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd
India's BSNL to Float Another WiMAX Tender
India's state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is reported to be planning a new WiMAX infrastructure tender worth around Rs 1,500-crore (US$320 million) for 7,000 base stations, to connect Common Service Centres (CSC) across the country. more
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India to Announce $9 Billion Network Contract on Wednesday
India's state owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) says that it will launch the tender for its 93 million mobile lines on September 10th. The contract is expected to be worth around US$9 billion, and has been delayed several times already. more
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India's BSNL Expects to Launch 3G Services Next June
India's Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) says that it anticipates launching its 3G network by next June - following deliveries of network kit from Ericsson. The deliveries relate to the previous convoluted 23 million GSM lines order which also included a provision for 3.5 million lines for 3G services. more
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India's BSNL Plans US$4.7 Billion Infrastructure Spend in 2008
India's state owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) will be allowed to increase its infrastructure spend by a third to reach US$4.7 billion in the next financial year - said a government minister. more
India Min: Nortel To Start Indian Telecom Equipment Plant
NEW DELHI -(Dow Jones)- Canada's Nortel Networks Corp. (NT), is to set up a manufacturing base in India for making telecommunication equipment, Indian Communications Minister Dayanidhi Maran said Friday. more
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India Reliance Infocomm: Has Paid INR1.5 Billion Penalty To Government
NEW DELHI -(Dow Jones)- Reliance Infocomm Ltd., India's largest mobile phone service operator, said it has paid INR1.5 billion ($34 million) to the government to comply with a recent telecommunications court ruling. more
BSNL launches Indian GSM network
India's Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has launched its nationwide GSM network. Launching the state owned company's mobile services, Minister of Communications, IT and Parliamentary Affairs Shri Pramod Mahajan said BSNL's pre-paid cellular services would be called 'ex-cel'. more
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India may delay national network rollout
Local media reports in India have suggested that Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is renegotiating the value of its GSM agreements. The agreements are with Motorola for Southern India, Ericsson for Eastern and Northern India along with Lucent for the West of India, but are just Advance purchase orders (APOs) and not formal contracts. The reports say that the renegotiations are due to rising costs and the infrastructure suppliers are trying to hold the network to its agreements. The disagreement could delay the network deployment by as much as a year. Apparently, Communications Minister Pramod Mahajan is concerned at the prices being charged by the suppliers and wants them renegotiated." more
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In India, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has broken with the other Indian GSM networks and has said that it opposes the introduction of Caller Party Pays (CPP) to the Indian market. BSNL says that the cost of receiving a call has fallen for cell phone owners and there was no need to incentivize the cell phone users to receive calls from land-lines. It is worth noting that BSNL is a major land-line operator and would probably see a net loss of revenue under the proposals. BSNL also says that the plans for implementing CPP have not been fully worked out, and should be finalised before any decision is taken on offering the service." more
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