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BSNL announcement

Coimbatore: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Coimbatore, has announced that high speed broadband is available on demand in the district with a monthly rental plan starting at Rs. 99.

A release from the PGM, Coimbatore, says that 20 per cent discount is allowed to Central/State Government/PSU employees/retired persons, visually impaired customers, educational institutions and corporate customers. A special discount of 40 per cent on usage is also allowed.
Appointment

On-the-spot appointment of direct selling agents is going on in BSNL customer service centres. Interested persons are requested to bring address proof, PAN card (if available) and three passport size photographs.

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BSNL introduces new facility

Coimbatore: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Coimbatore, has announced introduction of booking of telephone fault complaints and ascertaining bill amount through Short Messaging Service (SMS), besides offers on bulk SMS and new landline and WLL phone.

In a release, Principal General Manager of BSNL said that complaints regarding telephone faults could be booked by sending an SMS to 94422-94423 by typing FLT and the faulty telephone number with STD code after a space. For example, type FLT 0422*******.

Similarly, to know the bill amount for a particular telephone number, subscribers could send SMS to 94422-94423 by typing BILL and phone number with STD code after a space. For example, type BILL 0422*******.

Offers
BSNL has announced an offer of bulk SMS up to one lakh at a time at a special rate of 15 paise per SMS. For retail bulk push SMS traffic within a month for more than one lakh SMS, 10 paise per SMS is charged.

The offer is for a limited period only.

BSNL has also announced total waiver of installation charges on all new bookings for landline and wireless in local loop connections. The offer is valid for a limited period only.

Customers are requested to contact the nearest customer service centre.

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BSNL rural broadband launched

VIJAYAWADA: Krishna District Collector Peeyush Kumar on Thursday announced that internet kiosks would be opened in at least 250 centres in the rural areas of the district in the next two months to extend the benefits of broadband service to people. He said that the BSNL's rural broadband scheme would be made use of in these internet centres.

He lauded the efforts of the BSNL in bridging the digital divide, recounting a recent experience he had while visiting the remote Chinagollapalem, an island village. He said that before going to that village, he told his family members not try him on phone as there would be no connectivity. But, on reaching the village, he found mobile phones in the hands of the villagers and came to know that the BSNL provided the facility in the village.

Called "Rural Broadband" scheme by the BSNL, the Net PC is meant to provide wireline broadband to rural and remote areas by leveraging existing rural infrastructure and copper underground cable.

The scheme is aimed at removing the necessity for a regular personal computer.

On an initial payment of Rs. 1,900, rural applicants will be provided a Net PC, a keyboard and a mouse and CRT monitor. Urban applicants should pay Rs. 2,999.

Centralised data storage space would be provided to each customer in the Novatium server.

BSNL Krishna Telecom District General Manager John Chrisostom, who explained the salient features of the scheme, said that the Net PC would be easily understandable and it was designed in such a manner that the rural customers would find it comfortable to operate.

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SALEM: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Salem, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme, has donated a computer with broadband connectivity and a laser printer to the Government High School for Deaf at Sooramangalam here on Monday.

City Police Commissioner Sunil Kumar Singh distributed the system to the students at a simple function organised on the premises of the school in which more than 100 students and staff participated. The Commissioner congratulated the BSNL's role in social service and urged them to continue their lofty objectives.

BSNL's Salem General Manager T Sethu Madhavan presided over the function.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Y John Nicholson, Deputy General Managers, BSNL, S Thangavel, M. Komarasamy and M Govindaraj and others took part.

School headmistress P Shanthi thanked the BSNL for the gesture.

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Goa BSNL working on broadband network for industrial estates

Special CorrespondentGoa BSNL working on broadband network for industrial estates

BSNL has entered into an agreement with Goa-IDC; it will supply FlexMAX System

Goa-IDC will provide the link as value addition to infrastructure facilities

PANAJI: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) on Monday announced a partnership with State-owned industrial promotion agency, the Goa Industrial Development Corporation (Goa-IDC) to provide a state-of-the-art wireless broadband network to connect all of Goa-IDC's 19 industrial estates.

Under the partnership, BSNL's technology partner for Mobile WiMAX, SOMA Networks of U.S., will deploy its award-winning FlexMAX System[1], which delivers always on, high-speed DSL quality broadband with a simple plug-and-play indoor device called the Customer Premise Equipment (CPE).

The Goa-IDC will provide wireless broadband services to enterprises as a value addition to traditional brick and mortar infrastructure facilities.

Sharing his views on the partnership, A.V. Palekar, Managing Director, GIDC, said: "Our decision, to go with the latest technology for wireless broadband from BSNL-SOMA, will help the industries in Goa-IDC enhance their productivity and efficiency to compete with the best in the world."

Goa is an emerging industrial hub for Pharmaceuticals, Biotech, Food Processing, Agro-based industries and IT-enabled services.
Higher efficiency

Top-layering broadband services as an added virtual infrastructure was expected to enable enterprises to benefit from a "reliable" communication network resulting in higher operational efficiencies, better customer interaction, and newer modes of distribution and delivery management. "Goa is an ideal industrial hub and investment destination. We are pleased that enterprises in Goa will now have access to high speed wireless broadband connectivity from BSNL.

"We aspire to bring benefits of advanced technology of Mobile WiMAX to thousands of enterprises and consumers to Goa in the coming months," said G.R. Ravi, general manager, BSNL, Goa.

Sources in BSNL said BSNL and their technology partner, SOMA Networks, would target 4,000 broadband connections in Goa-IDC within the next 12 months across 19 Goa-IDC industrial estates.

BSNL has entered into an agreement with Goa-IDC; it will supply FlexMAX System

Goa-IDC will provide the link as value addition to infrastructure facilities

PANAJI: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) on Monday announced a partnership with State-owned industrial promotion agency, the Goa Industrial Development Corporation (Goa-IDC) to provide a state-of-the-art wireless broadband network to connect all of Goa-IDC's 19 industrial estates.

Under the partnership, BSNL's technology partner for Mobile WiMAX, SOMA Networks of U.S., will deploy its award-winning FlexMAX System[1], which delivers always on, high-speed DSL quality broadband with a simple plug-and-play indoor device called the Customer Premise Equipment (CPE).

The Goa-IDC will provide wireless broadband services to enterprises as a value addition to traditional brick and mortar infrastructure facilities.

Sharing his views on the partnership, A.V. Palekar, Managing Director, GIDC, said: "Our decision, to go with the latest technology for wireless broadband from BSNL-SOMA, will help the industries in Goa-IDC enhance their productivity and efficiency to compete with the best in the world."

Goa is an emerging industrial hub for Pharmaceuticals, Biotech, Food Processing, Agro-based industries and IT-enabled services.
Higher efficiency

Top-layering broadband services as an added virtual infrastructure was expected to enable enterprises to benefit from a "reliable" communication network resulting in higher operational efficiencies, better customer interaction, and newer modes of distribution and delivery management. "Goa is an ideal industrial hub and investment destination. We are pleased that enterprises in Goa will now have access to high speed wireless broadband connectivity from BSNL.

"We aspire to bring benefits of advanced technology of Mobile WiMAX to thousands of enterprises and consumers to Goa in the coming months," said G.R. Ravi, general manager, BSNL, Goa.

Sources in BSNL said BSNL and their technology partner, SOMA Networks, would target 4,000 broadband connections in Goa-IDC within the next 12 months across 19 Goa-IDC industrial estates.

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BSNL employees demand wage hike, go on strike

Around 270,000 employees of state-run telecom giant Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) went on strike for two days starting Wednesday, demanding a bigger hike in wages than had been offered.

'Around 20,000 BSNL engineers and 250,000 group C and D employees have gone on a strike for two days (Aug 19, 20),' senior member of BSNL Employees Union Dilip Das told IANS.

Altogether nine BSNL unions have gone on strike among which BSNL Employees Union is the largest one. All the nine unions are striking together under a conglomerate body -- The United Forum of BSNL Unions.

Apart from a higher wage hike than the management had offered, the other demands are regularisation of casual contract labourers and implementation of promotion policy.

'This large scale strike would definitely affect services to the customers,' said Bipin Guha, a BSNL customer in the city.

Soumya Roy, chief general manager, West Bengal Circle of BSNL, told IANS: 'This strike will affect services to some extent. But we are addressing major equipment faults in the state immediately.'

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BSNL staff strike work

KURNOOL: BSNL employees struck work here on August 19 and 20 as part of the nation-wide agitation for wage revision of the non-officer cadres.

The employees urged the BSNL authorities to undertake wage revision in proportion to the hike for officers.

They said the revision should take place every five years and the increment rate should be five per cent of the basic. Also, they urged the management to regularise services of casual workers and announce the promotional policy.

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BSNL staff demand wage revision


HASSAN: Demanding the implementation of immediate wage revision, promotion policy, anomaly committee report and to stop alleged unfair labour practices by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) management, the United Forum of BSNL Unions launched a 48-hour strike here on Wednesday.

As part of the protest, members of the forum staged a dharna in front of the BSNL General Manager's office.

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BSNL bills

The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited telephone bills for the period covering from June 2009 to July 2009 to be issued this month are delayed due to software upgrading. The pay by dates are also extended, said a press release.

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BSNL announcement

Coimbatore: BSNL, Coimbatore is offering GSM Public Call Offices without any security deposit, registration charges. The monthly minimum guarantee has been reduced to Rs. 80 for PCOs in rural areas and Rs. 200 in urban areas, a release from the BSNL said. The activation voucher is priced at Rs. 200 and recharge vouchers at Rs. 210, Rs. 345, Rs. 660, Rs. 1,920, Rs. 3,050, Rs. 5,800 and Rs. 5,670. Discount payable to franchisee is up to 73 per cent.

The company will soon introduce 3G mobile services. Prospective customers are requested to register by submitting an application at the nearest BSNL Customer Service Centre or by calling 9487580000 or by sending 3G through SMS to 53733.

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BSNL to provide telecom facilities at Frontier Mediville

CHENNAI: The Dr. K.M. Cherian's Frontier Lifeline Hospital on Thursday inked a memorandum of understanding with BSNL Chennai Telephones for end-to-end telecommunication facilities at the Frontier Mediville bio park shaping up at Elavur in Thiruvallur District.

As part of the MoU, BSNL will provide complete telecom solutions, including voice, data, WiFi hotspots, video and audio conferencing facility, broadband, leased lines and wireless services at Frontier Mediville.

The MoU was signed in the presence of M. P.Velusamy, Chief General Manager, BSNL Chennai Telephones, and Dr. K.M. Cherian, Chairman & CEO, Frontier Lifeline Hospitals.

BSNL will cater to all the telecommunications requirements of the National Medical Science Park, Bio-Hospital, Herbarium, Medical University, Research & Training Centre, Sterile Bio-Medical Corridor and residential buildings shaping up at Frontier Mediville.

Various services that will be provided by BSNL include landlines with CLIP phones, free phone plus services, free centrex, mobile services, Broadband and WiFi services.

Frontier Mediville is being built up on a 350-acre site, including an SEZ, on NH 5 near Gummidipundi, under a joint venture with TIDCO. It will include a 1000 bed bio hospital, a medical college, a herbarium, a research facility and a convention hall.

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BSNL mela at West Hill exchange

KOZHIKODE: A BSNL mini-mela will be held on the West Hill Telephone Exchange premises here on September 8 and 9. It is intended to benefit customers under the West Hill and Puthiyangadi exchanges.

Facilities like instant landline, mobile and internet connections and discounts on bills will be available, a BSNL press release issued here on Monday said.

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BSNL launches EVDO Data cards

Coimbatore: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited's EVDO Data cards priced at Rs. 3,500 to access CDMA Wireless in Local Loop internet with surfing speed up to 2.4 Mbps is now available at Ram Nagar, Race Course, Peelamedu, Ganapathy, Saravanampatti, Kurichi, Thudialur, Perianaickenpalayam, Mettuppalayam and Udumalpet . The cards are available at BSNL customer service centres. Monthly charges for unlimited internet with roaming facility will be Rs. 650.

BSNL is also organising road shows to showcase and sell new mobile prepaid plans such as Tamil Nadu Vasantham (one year validity), Tamil Nadu Anant 20 (Life Time validity), booking of BSNL landline/WLL with waiver of installation charges Rs 500, 2 Mbps Broadband at Rs 99 per month onwards, mobile CDMA, WLL prepaid, Free EPABX, Centrex, EVDO data card and other services. The shows will be held at various places till September 19 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on all days.

On September 10, the show will be at Poolavadi, PSGR Krishnammal College, Chettipalayam and RP mobiles. On September 11 it would be at Ambarampalayam, Mudalipalayam Telephone Exchange, Annur bus stand, TVS Nagar bus stop, On September 12 at Valparai near Gandhi Statue, Devanurpudur, Sundarapuram, Lovely Mobiles and Ganesapuram bus stop. On September 13 the road show will be near Valparai Gandhi statue, Pollachi near Nachimuthu Polytechnic College Telephone Exchange. On September 14, Avanashi Road, Rathna Regent, Perumanallur Four roads, Komaralingam and Thudialur bus stand. On September 15 at Pedappampatti, Singanallur ESI Hospital, Sundarapuram, Haneef Mobiles, Mettuppalayam near State Bank of India. On September 16 at Palladam four roads, Kottur Sungam, Tirupur- Avanashi Road RTO North office, Sai Baba Temple, Kovilpalayam.

On September 17 at Bharathi Colony Gopal Naidu School, Malumichampatti Chellandiamman store, Karamadai near Ranganathar Temple,

On September 18 at Kinathukkadavu bus stand, NSR Road near Pasumai Pharmacy, Tirupur-Pallada Road RTo South Office, Palladam market Road, Mettuppalayam Badrakaliamman Temple. On September 19 it would be at Pollachi Erisanampatti, Lakshmi Mills Junction, Premier Mills, Archana Mobiles, Othakkalmandapam and Karamadai Then Tirupati.

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BSNL unveils a range of special offers

TIRUNELVELI: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited's Tirunelveli Telecom District launched 'special mela' throughout the district from Thursday (September 10) till September-end with a range of special offers.

According to General Manager, Tirunelveli Telecom District V. Raju, these offers are available at all BSNL Customer Service Centres, major telephone exchanges and all authorised franchisees.

In this mela, the 'Vasantham' SIM card with local calls at the rate of 20 paise and 250 free SMS and the lifetime-validity SIM card 'TamilNadu Ananth' are offered for Rs.20. The installation charge of Rs.500 for new landline and Wireless in Local Loop connections is totally waived and a hand bag is also offered as gift.

Broadband connections are provided immediately throughout the district and applicants who opt for monthly plans for Rs.750 and above are offered free modem, worth Rs.1,664 during the mela.

In the urban areas, Nova Net PC with BSNL Broadband connection is offered for Rs. 7,491 only, which includes service tax and installation charges. In 30 specified rural areas, Nova Net PC with BSNL Broadband connection is offered for Rs.2,252 only for the first 31 customers, Mr. Raju said.

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BSNL mela

The BSNL would organise a reconnection/new connection mela for Industrial Estate Exchange customers at Yenamalakuduru on Friday from 10 a.m. onwards. The registration for new landline, mobile and broadband connections could be done at the reconnection mela, and for further details contact toll-free number 1991.

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BSNL mela to be conducted today and tomorrow

Tiruchi: The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Tiruchi Telecom District and franchisees of BSNL will arrange a BSNL Mela at the following places on September 15 and 16. They are: Principal General Manager Office premises on Bharathidasan Salai; Thillai Nagar telephone exchange; near Karur Pallapatti bus stand and bazaar; near Government Arts College, Thanthonrimalai; near Keeranur bus stand; near Thuraiyur bus stand and showroom of all BSNL franchisees. A BSNL press release said the newly introduced "Vasantham 20" and "Tamil Nadu Anant 20" SIM cards will be issued free of cost at the mela. The BSNL has requested the customers to avail this opportunity.

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BSNL to launch 3G services

Coimbatore: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Coimbatore, has announced that the 3G technology in its mobile phone services will be launched by the end of October, Principal General Manager of BSNL, P.T. Mathew said on Friday.

Talking to reporters, Mr. Mathew said that the soft launch of the 3G services will be done first. Mobile subscribers have been already asked to register for availing the services by calling 94875 80000 or by sending an SMS 3G to 53733. Mr. Mathew addressed the media on the plans of the BSNL along with G. Muralidharan, General Manager (Operations), K. Francis Jacob, Deputy General Manager (Planning), R. Pandian, Deputy General Manager (Telecom Revenue), S. Karthikeyan, Deputy General Manager (Finance) and S. Chinnasamy, Deputy General Manger (Administration).

For BSNL mobile subscribers who are facing indoor coverage issue, calls to their mobile phones could be diverted to a chosen landline number, free of cost. The facility is launched with effect from September 18.

BSNL was keenly focusing on promoting its broadband services.

As of now, broadband services are available on demand in more than 161 exchanges serving 45,000 customers. BSNL also intends to release another 25,000 new broadband connections during this year and tariff plans are available from Rs. 99.

On the mobile front, BSNL at present has 313 GSM Base Transmission Stations (BTS) and it proposes to add 242 new GSM BTS sites during the current year to have carpet coverage throughout Coimbatore and Tirupur. BSNL Coimbatore will be providing 1.5 lakh new mobile connections during this year.

On the performance front, Mr. Mathew said that the trend of landline connections being surrendered has decreased substantially since subscribers feel the necessity for a landline connection for broadband. During the current year alone, 50,000 new Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards have been issued and 25,000 new landline connections have been released.

BSNL has plans to open new exchanges for Information Technology Park at Peelamedu and two more exchanges for new gated community residential colonies that are coming up around Coimbatore.

Mr. Mathew also announced the launch of facilities for fault booking by sending SMS to 94422-94423. The customer could type FLT space and the STD code of the area and the faulty phone number. To know the current bill status, they could type BILL space STD code of the area and then the number.

Focus is also on promoting the newly introduced Gulf country Call Now cards that offers ISD at Rs. 4 and Rs. 4.25 to destinations in Middle East.

Payment of landline bills could be done through VISA debit cards and subscribers could avail 5 per cent cash back offer.

Customers paying their bills online at www.bsnl.co.in or www.tamilnadu.bsnl.co.in are entitled to one per cent discount.

Another mode of payment has been introduced wherein payment through Electronic Clearance Scheme (ECS) would fetch one per cent discount besides voluntary deposit scheme (advance payment) wherein the payment would fetch 7 per cent interest.

Sale of CDMA WLL EVDO cards with 2.4 mbps are being promoted and the services are now available at Race Course, Ganapathy, Ram Nagar, Peelamedu, Saravanampatty, Kovaipudur, Kurichi, Thudialur, Periyanaickenpalayam, Cheran Maanagar, Mettuppalayam, Udumalpet. The services would be soon launched at Navavur pirivu, Selvapuram, Sai Baba Colony, Somanur, Navakkarai, Arulpuram, Tirupur main, PP Pudur and Pollachi main.

Mr. Mathew said that in rural areas broadband connections under Universal Service Obligation Fund with two plans Rural USOF 99 and Rural USOF 150 without security deposit, installation fee, registration charges and modem charges.

In Coimbatore 23 rural exchanges in the first phase and 30 exchanges in the second phase would get this scheme and tie-up for the same had been entered into with Nova PC and HCLThe man power is also being subjected to training to bring in an attitudinal change, he added. For complaints, aggrieved subscribers could send mails to pg.cbt@bsnl.co.in

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BSNL launches prepaid broadband services in Karnataka circle

State-run PSU, BSNL today launched prepaid broadband services in the Southern circle of Karnataka

The prepaid vouchers have been categorized into two i.e. for unlimited download and limited download.

Under unlimited download there are four types of vouchers offering speeds ranging from 256 kbps to 2 Mbps. The limited download category has 9 different types of vouchers. The validity period varies from voucher to voucher. Limited data option also has two other types of vouchers, one for extending the validity period and the other for increasing the usage within the validity period.

Subscribers have option to either own a modem or purchase it from BSNL. Upon subscription, the customers will be offered 50MB download valid for 15 days. Thereafter they will have to purchase recharge vouchers as per their liking.

BSNL appears to be pitching the prepaid option henceforth as the operator spells out the advantages of this option over postpaid. According to the company, there are no fixed monthly charges for the prepaid option and also the service can be used anywhere across India except for Mumbai and Delhi. Other advantages include control on usage, sharing of DSL connection, reduced expenditure for enterprises, overcome hassles of bill payment.
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BSNL will extend this option to all its areas of operation by this year-end.

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New BSNL tariff plan

CHENNAI: BSNL Chennai Telephones has introduced 'one paise per second' special tariff voucher (STV) for all pre-paid users except the old Anant plan.

A BSNL release on Thursday stated that customers, who wish to make local and STD calls at 1 paise per second within the BSNL network and at 1.2 paise per second to other networks, can use STV-45. The vouchers are priced at Rs.45 and have 365 days' validity.

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BSNL 3G service in A.P. from December

HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh Circle of the State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has almost completed installation of the equipment needed to offer 3G ` on CellOne, its mobile platform sometime in December, aimed at acquiring 3.5 lakh new customers.

The circle has been allotted one slot of five megahertz for the purpose.

When the third generation service is commissioned, subscribers will virtually have the web world in their mobiles at speeds as good as those on a computer. One can take video phone snap shots, have mobile broadband, watch television through video streaming, push to talk screen shot and download music, to name a few. G.V. Reddy, General Manager, BSNL-AP (Network Planning & Execution), says the wait is just for the killer application to utilise the huge bandwidth available now that the spectrum has been allocated.

The tariff is yet to be fixed but for prepaid connections it may be as low as Rs. 100 with local voice and video call charges at around 20 paise a minute on BSNL networks and 50 paise for other networks.

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BSNL EVDO data card mela

Coimbatore: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited is conducting the Internet EVDO Data Card mela and reconnection mela on November 20 and 21 at the customer service centres and at the telephone exchanges in Ganapathy, Ram Nagar, Peelamedu, Kurichi, Periyanaickenpalayam, Kovaipudur, Selvapuram, Saravanampatti, Mettupalayam, Udumalpet, Pollachi, Tirupur and at the PGM office, Coimbatore.

The cost of EVDO data card is Rs. 3,500 and activation charge is Rs. 500. To get the cards on the spot, customers are requested to bring passport size photographs, photo identity and residential proof.

BSNL is extending discounts on outstanding dues to reconnect landline and wireless in local loop phone, which were disconnected due to non-payment of bills.

More details could be obtained from the Accounts Officer, Coimbatore at ph: 2449900, 2449700, 248830 and 246002; in Tirupur 0421-2208200; Pollachi 04259-230800 and 220700.

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BSNL reduces tariff on post-paid mobiles

MADURAI: Keeping in tune with the current trend, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has reduced tariff of post-paid mobile connections and modified some plans to suit the subscribers' needs.

A few plans have been withdrawn and merged with the plans with lower monthly rental. Free STD calls on own network have been introduced to low-end plans — Plan 99 to Plan 225. Similarly, Plan 225 has been made a pay-by-second one. "Low-end subscribers have been given more options, including making short duration calls," he said. Reduced call charges (on two select BSNL numbers including one landline number) have been further reduced from 20 paise a minute to 5 paise a minute on Plan 225. Free SMS — 100 numbers (for Plan 99) and 150 numbers (for Plan 225) have been introduced.

"Subscribers of the popular Plan 525 will get additional free calls worth Rs. 50 (now Rs. 350) and can make STD calls at 50 paise a minute. (The existing tariff is 60 to 80 paise a minute)," he said.

Though the revision has come into effect from December 1, request for change in plan would come into effect from January 1.

Mr. Sanjeevi said that the rate of surrender of mobile phones had come down with the demand for broadband. "Now, internet usage has become a necessity in very household and the demand has increased," he said. Out of 50,000 broadband connections 28,000 connections were working now.

BSNL's wireless data access through CDMA technology has gone up to 2 mbps in the city. "We have replaced the older technology to EVDO in the Madurai city," he added. The minimum speed of data access through CDMA was 144 kbps in Madurai BSNL, covering Madurai, Theni and Dindigul districts. People in extension areas and where underground cables were not feasible could go in for the CDMA-based data access. Over 2,000 landline customers using broadband had switched over to wireless technology, he added.

Pre-paid broadband facility will soon be launched. "People can keep a tab on their internet usage through this facility.

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BSNL expo on Dec. 30 Coimbatore: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Coimbatore, is conductingan exhibition on December 30 in front of the Telephone Exchange atPalladam.



The objective of the expo is to provide a holistic customer serviceunder one roof. Deputy Superintendent of Police, Palladam, P.Ramalingam will be inaugurating the exhibition.



The exhibition will facilitate easy access of information tocustomers. The attractive schemes of various plans and offers will bemade available to the visitors.



Customers visiting the stall can win a free mobile connection withinstrument. Free SIM cards are offered to the first 300 customers.

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BSNL to roll out FTTH facility

CHENNAI: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has decided to roll out FTTH   facility that offers a higher bandwidth for data transfer, its Chairman and Managing Director Kuldeep Goyal said here on Monday.

He was speaking on the sidelines of a function organised to mark the issue of 10,000th 3G mobile connection in the city. In the first phase, a total of 100 cities in the country would be equipped with FTTH and the rest would be covered in subsequent phases. BSNL's recently launched Wi-MAX broadband services would cover 1,000 block headquarters across the country in the first phase by the end of 2010.

In an attempt to tackle stiff competition from private service providers, BSNL is strengthening its marketing and service departments. It is designating 10,000 people for the departments, he said.

On the growing demand for 3G services, Mr. Goyal said BSNL had set a target of providing 10 lakh connections by March-end across the country. It would cover a total of 740 cities, including Coimbatore, Madurai, Tiruchi and Salem, in the State. "We are also looking at offering better connectivity in every city to ensure customer satisfaction. As our 3G infrastructure can take 50 lakh more connections, we are focussing on the marketing part." BSNL has invested Rs.2,600 crore for 3G services.

Mr. Goyal said that video-calling technology would emerge in a big way and voice calls would be available for free in future. Agreeing that the response for IPTV service was lukewarm, Mr.Goyal said efforts were on to promote the facility.

He felicitated Lalitha Jewellery Mart Private Limited managing director M.Kiran Kumar, the 10,000th customer of 3G services in Chennai. The 3G mobile services offer speeds of up to 3.6 Mbps, and has video calling and mobile TV as value additions.

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BSNL's tracking takes autorickshaws fleet management to next level                                                                                                                                                    N. Anand                                                                                                                                                                          CHENNAI: With a view to provide hassle-free ride to the commuters in the city and to have better fleet management system in place, Chennai Call Auto Pvt. Ltd has taken the help of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) to track its members on real-time basis. For the last two months, Chennai Call Auto has been tracking 50 autorickshaws through its 'Man Tracker' software from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Only those autorickshaw drivers who have a clean record and are willing to use meters are taken as members. There is no joining fee, but the members have to share 10 per cent of their revenue.
Following the success, the company has decided to enlarge its operations and approached the Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation (TTDC) officials to add the 147 tourist-friendly autorickshaws to its network.
"Everyone has been provided with a BSNL SIM card. The SIM card will provide the location signal of the nearby tower to our call centre. The information will be updated every five minutes. Besides, providing the exact location of the autorickshaws, the software provides additional details such as driver's name, date and time of the location on real-time and for 24 hours. On receiving the call from the customer, we will inform the autorickshaw driver at the nearest point to pick-up the customer," K. Navaneethan, Managing Director, Chennai Call Auto told The Hindu.
The company uses GSM technology instead of GPS due to the cost factor. It is also being offered to two air-conditioning companies to keep track of its salesmen.
"We are the first private company to be offered the (tracking system) database by BSNL. Every month, we are paying over Rs.450 per user to BSNL and this will come down with the growth in the numbers. Our drivers are in the Closed User Group and hence their monthly rental will be less," he added.
Currently, the call centre has seven employees and this will be scaled up to 50 in a month's time. The call centre number is 4344 4344.

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BSNL 3G mobile service launched in Davangere

DAVANGERE: The third generation (3G) mobile telephone technology service of Davangere Telecom District of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) was launched here on Thursday.
Over 850 connections were given on the first day.
The district telecom activated the 3G mobile service SIM cards immediately upon receiving applications. General Manager of Davangere Telecom District, S. Jyothisankar, launched the new service by making video calls.
He said that customers could make calls, access 96 TV stations, and download or upload online data. Speeds of 3,600 to 7,200 kbps (kilobytes per second), 25 times higher than the present 2G services, were available, he said.
Mr. Jyothisankar announced a three-month promotional offer of video calls at 30 paise per minute. Under the 3G service, 10 kb downloaded data would be charged one paise, while mobile TV would cost Rs. 150 per month.
New customers
Of the applicants, 650 customers migrated from BSNL prepaid services, while over 100 new customers sought new connections. Mr. Jyothisankar told presspersons that BSNL prepaid customers could switch over to 3G services for free. Subscribers could avail themselves of a new 3G prepaid or post-paid connection at Rs.59 for a Universal SIM, with a memory capacity of 256 kb, he said.
He said 16,138 BSNL mobile connections given during February alone and that Davangere was second in the State in terms of the number of SIMs sold.

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BSNL offers new plans till March 31                                                                                                                                                    Staff Reporter                                                                                                                                                                          Coimbatore: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has announced promotional offers of extra talk value on first recharge coupons of Rs. 37, 44 and 46 under the 2G prepaid plans.
The plans are 'vinadi plan', all @ 49 plan and "Ennanban Plan."
The offer is up to March 31, according to a release from BSNL.

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BSNL employees take casual leave en masse

Tirupur: As many as 228 employees of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, attached to 30 telephone exchanges in Tirupur division, went on an en masse casual leave on Friday to protest against the proposed move to implement Sam Pitroda panel's report favouring 30 percent disinvestment, among other suggestions.
Dharna
The agitating employees, including executive and non-executive cadre officials, also staged a dharna on the BSNL office premises in the city.
Disinvestment
The various BSNL employees' unions came together to state that the disinvestment of 30 percent stake of the government in the BSNL would be detrimental to both the organisation as well as the employees.
Voluntary retirement
Similarly, Pitroda panel's suggestion for downsizing the workforce by forcing one lakh employees to go on voluntary retirement was termed by the employees' unions as "anti-employee" and "anti-BSNL" moves.
"There is no need of asking the people to opt for voluntary retirement since 10,000 employees are retiring every year and no fresh recruitment taking place to fill the gaps arisen," the staff pointed out.
Another proposal of Mr. Pitroda that came under severe criticism of the employees was the move to divide BSNL into four business units in the pretext of restructuring the organisation.
According to Pitroda panel, separate business units should be created for fixed access, mobility, enterprise and new businesses.

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BSNL IPTV regional bouquet gets better


CHENNAI: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) will look to roll out Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services more aggressively across major cities in the State with most channels on the Sun Network set to join the IPTV bouquet from April.

BSNL's IPTV services had gone commercial with about 140 channels in October in Chennai, and later in Puducherry and Coimbatore, without the major Sun channels on offer. IPTV, which offers several interactive features such as movie-on-demand, was launched in partnership with MyWay services of the Smart TV Group.

"We have planned a major expansion campaign after we host most Tamil, Telugu and Kannada channels on the Sun Network," a MyWay official said.

IPTV will now feature 16 regional channels of the Network.

However, for IPTV users this could cut both ways. While they will have access to richer regional content, the pricing of the packages could be tweaked shortly.

The next phase of the IPTV rollout in Tamil Nadu will cover Madurai and Coimbatore. "We had to delay the rollout in these cities as we needed to enlarge the bouquet of Tamil content", the official said.

BSNL sources say that one of the reasons for the below-par performance of the IPTV segment had been the insufficient Tamil content. In the five months since it migrated to the billed platform, the IPTV subscriber base has only grown to about 1,500.

"We're now looking to raise the subscriber base to over 7,000 and have planned a major campaign in the months ahead," an official said. The IPTV franchise is also expected to launch two new features soon. The "Time Shift TV" feature will enable users to catch up with any time programme that they miss on about 40 favourite channels (seven days of content is stored on a MyWay server for this). Another value-addition is the recording feature that will allow viewers to record their favourite programmes on a memory stick.

It is proposed to offer both features free for the high-end packages, sources said.

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BSNL network jammed

Coimbatore: The subscribers of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) cellular network in Coimbatore secondary switching area went through a harrowing experience on Sunday following a network failure. The subscribers were not able to receive or make calls occasionally.

BSNL officials said the problems were being attended to.

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A senior BSNL official told The Hindu that the towers would strategically be located at places which hitherto had no telephone connectivity.DoT had invited tenders for providing mobile connectivity through 7,871 towers in 500 districts throughout the country under USO a few months ago.

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