Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.(BSNL) was incorporated on 15th september 2000 . It took over the business of providing of telecom services and network management from the erstwhile Central Government Departments of Telecom Services (DTS) and Telecom Operations (DTO), with effect from 1st October‘ 2000 on going concern basis.It is one of the largest & leading public sector units providing comprehensive range of telecom services in India.
BSNL has installed Quality Telecom Network in the country & now focusing on improving it, expanding the network, introducing new telecom services with ICT applications in villages & winning customer's confidence. Today, it has about 43.74 million line basic telephone capacity, 8.83 million …show more content…
In fact there is no telecom operator in the country to beat its reach with its wide network giving services in every nook & corner of the country & operates across India except New Delhi & Mumbai. Whether it is inaccessible areas of Siachen glacier or North-Eastern regions of the country, BSNL serves its customers with a wide bouquet of telecom services namely Wireline, CDMA mobile, GSM mobile, Internet, Broadband, Carrier service, MPLS-VPN, VSAT, VoIP, IN Services, FTTH, etc.
BSNL is numero uno of India in all services in its license area. The company offers wide ranging & most transparent tariff schemes designed to suit every customer. BSNL has 90.09 million cellular & 5.06 million WLL customers as on 31.07.2011. 3G Facility has been given to all 2G connections of BSNL. In basic services, BSNL is miles ahead of its rivals, with 24.58 million wireline phone subscribers i.e. 71.93% share of the wireline subscriber …show more content…
At present there are8.09 million broadband customers.
Services provided by BSNL
BSNL provides almost every telecom service in India. Following are the main telecom services provided by BSNL:
• Optical Infrastructure and DWDM : BSNL owns the biggest OFC network in India. Also the DWDM network is one of the biggest in the world. The DWDM equipments purchased in open tender at BSNL are mainly of United Telecoms Limited ( UTL) make, which was declared lowest cost in competitive bidding. Rest DWDM equipments are from Huawei. The SDH equipments are mainly from Huawei, ZTE, ECI, UT STAR etc.
• Market Share : As of 30 November 2013, BSNL had 12.9% marketshare in India and stands as 5th Telecom Operator in India and 67% market share in ADSLServices.
• Managed Network Services : BSNL is providing complete Telecom Services Solution to the Enterprise Customers i.e.MPLS Connectivity, Point to Point Leased Lines and Internet Leased Lines .
• Universal Telecom Services : Fixed wireline services and landline in local loop (WLL) using CDMA Technology calledbfone and Tarang respectively. As of 30 June 2010, BSNL had 75% marketshare of fixed