The employees of public sector company, BSNL have warned that they could go on a nationwide strike on Thursday after the talks between the unions and management on some aspects did not result in agreements.

V. A. N. Namboodiri said, Convener, Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Associations/Unions of BSNL Executives and Non-Executives said that discussion took place between the unions and MTNL management on Monday but it did not bring any agreements.

State-run, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has entered into an agreement with Bharat Berry Technologies to offer push e-mail services to its subscribers across the country.

BSNL said in a statement that the service will be rolled out for all BSNL GSM mobile subscribers in all telecom circles in the country. The operator has already launched the Bharat Berry services with MTNL Delhi and MTNL Mumbai.

The financially crippled state-owned telecom company, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is expecting to raise funds in the near future to reinstate its lost credibility and position in the market. As per reports, BSNL is expecting to garner almost Rs 3,000 crore this fiscal (FY'11-12) from its enterprise business.

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Public sector telephone service provider has announced its plan to expand its 3G services to 60 more cities, taking the number to 760 cities. According to Chairman and Managing Director BSNL, Gopal Das, this target will be fulfilled by the end of this fiscal year.

 ‘Mantri’ a residential complex promoted by Mantri Developers has been offered new broadband services through fiber-optic cables by BSNL.

Mr. Gopal Das said that new broadband service make use of fiber-optic cables and optical electronics instead of copper wire and DSL equipment. The company is planning to provide FTTH service to the appealing customers in 127 cities across the country.

The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited's objective to launch 3G services in around 760 cities will be attained by the existing financial year.

BSNL Chairman and Managing Director Gopal Das made this declaration on Saturday.

While talking to media after a function on Rajiv Gandhi Salai in Padur, near Kelambakkam, on Saturday, Mr. Das stated that the pan-India attendance enjoyed by the state-owned telecommunications company had aided in smooth and trouble-free launch of 3G services in about 700 cities.

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a telecom operator in India announced the launch of MNP by its scheduled deadline. Mobile Number Portability will be implemented by BSNL from October 31.

Gopal Das, officiating chairman and managing director of BSNL said that we are ready with our infrastructure to meet MNP demands and earlier due to absence of infrastructure four times it has been postponed.

Free mobile handsets have been distributed to villagers at Phagi in Ajmer district in Rajasthan by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL).

Around 1000 mobile phones with SIM cards have been given to the villagers. BSNL has incurred an expenditure of 12.85 lakh to implement this noble task.

The main reason behind this scheme is to include these villagers in to the majority of the society and bring people aware of telecom services who were so far deprived of these facilities because of poverty. All recipients belong to BPL families.

State-owned telecom service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited is set to lay optical fibre cable to provide higher telecommunication between Agartala, the state capital of Tripura and Akhaura, the nearest Bangladeshi town, the company informed.

Talking to reporters on the developments, Debkumar Chakraborty, General Manager, BSNL in Tripura said that the distance between the two towns are 12 kilo meters and BSNL aims to connect the both by optical fibre cables.

The government has informed that the telecom operator BSNL has suffered a loss in the fiscal year of 2009-10. The government has also said that it there has been a huge increase in its expenditure in the reviewed year and it was the main reason of this loss.

BSNL has suffered a loss of Rs 1,822.65 crore during the financial year 2009-10. There has been a decline in the revenue in this time period as well. This has been informed by Minister of State for Communications and IT Mr. Sachin Pilot in the Rajya Sabha in a written statement.

BSNL has announced that it will focus the broad band facilities in the rural areas of the country soon. The state-run organization has declared that it has introduced several user-friendly plans in the market. These plans will help the company to promote rural broadband in India.

As per the BSNL officials, the company is looking forward to come up with few other plans for the rural broadband and theses are expected to attract huge number of customers.

State-owned telecommunication company BSNL has extended its landline broadband network to rustic regions of the country, and has launched many reasonably priced tariff plans, customized for rural areas.

The newly launched rustic plans are available on usage based charging plus in unlimited usage group and are considerably affordable as compared to the plans provided to urban regions owing to subsidy component from USOF fund.

Rural Broadband tariff plans will be available at a monthly fixed charge of Rs 99.

BSNL seems to be making news, the earlier ones pertained to 3G, but the recent news suggests that it has crossed the landmark of 100 million subscribers in India. Managing Director and chairman of BSNL on this eve expressed his excitement and claimed that BSNL is dedicatedly performing its work as it drives India into the next league of telecom supremacy by providing technologically advanced services to its discerning customers at an affordable cost.

Public sector Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is ready to launch its wireless broadband services in Sikkim in during the existing financial year (2010-11).

The company also said that it will also augment its connectivity for broadband, landlines and 2G and 3G networks in Sikkim.

While informing this, BSNL General Manager (Gangtok) SK Mahato said that BSNL would come up with 15 new broadband BTS to cover all educational institutions, BAC and central office of gram panchayats.

COA has informed that the number of GSM subscribers has increased by about 14 million in the month of March and April. Now the total number of customers has touched to 421 million in the country. These two months have been added huge number of customers in India.

In lieu of 3G services, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) has introduced Huawei U 7510 3G mobiles in Tamil Nadu.

This Smartphone has been unveiled so that the company is able to increase its market share while at the same time encroaching upon the upcoming Smartphone platform.

The employees of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) have started an indistinct nation-wide strike on Tuesday, 20th April. As the Sam Pitroda committee has given a proposal on voluntary retirement and divestment proposal, the BSNL employees are protesting against it.
 
According to the convener of the Joint Action Committee of BSNL Associations and Unions VAN Namboodiri in Delhi, the strike has started all across the country and there will be no work for an indefinite period of time. It will undoubtedly affect the calls in BSNL network.

The net profit of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. has come down to Rs 178 crore. This has been the most disappointing show of the state-owned firm in past few years. The market share of the company has also gone down drastically.

Reports suggest that the market share of the company has felled to a major 15.75%. Communications and IT Minister A Raja has accepted the fact in a written reply in Rajya Sabha. He has also produced some of the most substandard statistics about the company during these couple of years.

comBharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) may end up with a drastic loss in this current fiscal year. It had encountered it's first ever loss in the previous quarter and it has affected the annual report too.

The accounts of the state owned firm has shown a loss of Rs 2,611 crore for the year ended March 2010, while the company has managed to produce a profit of Rs 575 crore, a year ago. Its revenues fell to Rs 32,966 crore which is 7.9% of decline from the preceding year's revenue. The company has not officially announced the financial result yet.

A Quiz contest for youngsters aiming at the promotional campaigns of BSNL was conducted today in West Bengal, Kolkata.

The contest held for the youth plans to nerve-wreck them, simultaneously accomplishing its mission to promote the latest Wireless broadband service and 3G GSM Mobile.

The events which kick starts from today is will showcase a live demonstration of Video calling, Live TV, access to high speed wireless broadband, Dial a TV. BSNL has roped in Nokia for the sponsorship events.

New Delhi, Mar 29 : Telecom service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) on Monday declared that it would provide free installation and high-speed Internet usage for the first fifteen days to customers, who apply for its landline-based broadband connection up to March 31, 2010.