Honest 836 Report post Posted October 9, 2008 BSNL gears up for global 3G, prepaid and GPRS roaming 9 Oct, 2008, 1623 hrs IST, PTI NEW DELHI: Ahead of its 3G services launch, state-run BSNL is getting ready to offer international roaming facility to its subscribers for prepaid, GPRS and 3G services. Presently, international roaming facility for BSNL subscribers consists of having a triple solution in SIM Cards for postpaid users. One solution is for the home network, other for international roaming through 'Direct International Roaming Agreements' with foreign operators and the third by piggy- backing on an existing international roaming service provider hub. A senior BSNL official said, as of now BSNL has signed GSM international roaming agreements for 339 networks in 170 countries, out of which 164 networks in 94 countries have been commercially launched for postpaid customers only. Connectivity has been established with a leading global GRX service provider for GPRS international roaming services. Testing with each of the operators is required for launching the GPRS international roaming services. Prepaid and 3G international roaming services are in the process of being launched in the BSNL network and accordingly the testing and launching of these services would also be involved, he said. The direct agreements of BSNL involves only one set of testing for whole of BSNL with the foreign operators for postpaid services. For GPRS, Prepaid and 3G services testing would involve the four zones of BSNL. All the testing would be carried out from BSNL's Kolkata office. BSNL has invited proposals from companies for carrying out testing in regard to international roaming service with the foreign GSM mobile operators and subsequent commercial launch of the service. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Honest 836 Report post Posted November 13, 2008 BSNL plans to launch 3G services in TN Moneycontrol l 13 Nov l Chennai BSNL is planning to launch 3G services in Tamil Nadu by January and will partner Univercell for the roll-out of the services, said Mr M.D. Velusamy, Chief General Manager of Chennai Telephones. BSNL also has plans to add another four million mobile connections in Tamil Nadu by the beginning of next year. “We have placed orders for necessary equipment for the purpose,” said Mr G. Varadharajan, Chief General Manager – Tamil Nadu Circle, BSNL. In the process, it will erect at least 1,000 more towers in Chennai alone. “This will improve the quality of our services too,” he said. According to him, the public sector telecom major currently has a mobile customer base of 3.5 million in Tamil Nadu. “The State that has registered the highest ARPU (average revenue per user) for us at Rs 500 a month in comparison with other States, where we operate at Rs 300,” said Mr Varadharajan. Tie-up with UniverCell The service provider today announced its marketing tie-up with mobile retail chain UniverCell. Under the pact, all UniverCell stores will sell prepaid and postpaid connections from BSNL. “Besides, we will also provide services such as recharging, consulting on tariff plans across our stores in Tamil Nadu,” said Mr Ramesh Barath, Vice-President, New Business Development and Marketing, UniverCell. According to him, this tie-up will also be taken to other States very soon. Currently, UniverCell has 200 stores all over South and proposes to take it to 1,000 stores in the next two years. In the process, it will foray into other geographies including Orissa and West Bengal in the first quarter of next fiscal. Besides, it has also tied up with Spencer’s retail to establish shop-in-shop at Music World outlets. Last year, iLabs Venture Capital invested Rs 100 crore in the Rs 350-crore UniverCell. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ipkonfig 10 Report post Posted November 13, 2008 Thanks for the info...I wonder when the same will be happening in Kerala Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Honest 836 Report post Posted November 13, 2008 ^^^ My dear Praveen, let it be launched in TN. After that slowly and stadily they will launch the same throughout India. Regards. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Honest 836 Report post Posted November 24, 2008 BSNL to Launch 3G Service in Chennai in January State-run telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) Monday reaffirmed its decision to launch third generation (3G) mobile services in Chennai in January. The public sector undertaking has already received a licence and spectrum rights to roll out 3G services in most parts of the country as it is one of the two state-run phone companies and is given preference over private firms in offering new technologies. However, the telecom operator has to pay the same fees as private operators who eventually win the right to offer a service. "We will start our rollout of 3G services from Chennai in January," BSNL director (finance) S.D. Saxena told IANS. 3G entails higher expenses for telecom operators, but Saxena said efforts would be taken not to burden the customer. "Affordability is going to be a major concern but we will offer a number of schemes to ease the burden," he said. Referring to the 93 million lines tender floated a few months back, he said, "We will take more time to announce the results as the evaluation is still going on." While the slowdown has affected most parts of the economy, Saxena said the telecom sector, and "especially" BSNL, has been isolated from its repercussions. Courtesy : Tech2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KumaarShah 143 Report post Posted November 25, 2008 BSNL is getting better and better by the day.... Lets see what they offer in January. Very wisely, no year has been mentioned and so, it may be 2009 or 2010 (jus jokin) I think a spanner will be thrown in by the private players in the form of some legal issues shortly to prevent BSNL from rolling out 3G services. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Honest 836 Report post Posted November 25, 2008 BSNL selects Dilithium for Mobile Video Services 25 Nov 2008 l AGENCIES l CALIFORNIA Dilithium, the global leader in high-quality multimedia delivery over mobile and broadband networks announced on Tuesday that BSNL, India's largest telecommunications company, has selected Dilithium solutions for the deployment of new mobile video and streaming services over 2G and 3G networks. BSNL plans to roll out Live TV services in early 2009. Dilithium has partnered with HCL Infosystems Ltd. to provide end-to-end delivery solutions for BSNL's live mobile video services. The solution includes the Dilithium DTG® 3021 multimedia gateways and the DCA video streaming solution, enabling 2-way video calling and other advanced video services. "It has been an honor to help BSNL bring mobile video solutions to the India market," said Uno Mehta, Senior VP of Dilithium's Value Added Services Business Unit. "Our ability to provide comprehensive end to end solutions for both circuit switched and packet switched video made us a good fit for BSNL's requirements." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Honest 836 Report post Posted December 15, 2008 3G spectrum to be introduced in 29 cities of AP: BSNL Press Trust of India l 15 Dec l Hyderabad Chief general manager, AP telecom circle BSNL, T N Sudhindra Kumar said 3G Spectrum-- or radio bandwidth-- will pave way for several value added services mostly in entertainment and video conferencing. He said that it will be a value added service and both BSNL and MTNL are likely to capture the market in the segment. There are plans to provide 3G or thrid generation mobile phones in 29 cities of Andhra Pradesh, Kumar said. The 3G spectrum, which is likely to be launched by March, will increase bandwidth and help in video screening in mobile in a better manner than televisions with a faster pace and better quality. He said that presently AP telecom has 27.4 lakh mobile customers with a market share of 18.9 percent. Presently the equipped capacity is 19.6 lakh connections. Additionally connectivity planned is 15 lakh new connections for the financial year, he added. About their increased market share he said that the BSNL is doing its best to increase the market share. "Presently we have some excellent plans including power pack plan and were able to sell 1.5 lakh connections last month itself in the prepaid seg ments," said Kumar. About the proposal to have a portable migration facility in mobile as earlier recommended by TRAI ,which facilitates a user to switch to any service provider of his choice with the same number, he said that providing such facility is still under consideration and yet to be introduced. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Honest 836 Report post Posted December 31, 2008 BSNL to start 3G services in Chennai Press Trust of India l 31 Dec l New Delhi State-run telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) today said it plans to start next generation (3G) mobile services in Chennai and other circles next month. "We plan to roll-out 3G services by next month," BSNL Chariman and Managing Director Kuldeep Goyal told reporters here. The services are likely to be started from Chennai and other circles. While announcing the 3G policy, Communication and IT Minister A Raja had given an advantage to telecom PSUs - BSNL and MTNL - of allocating 3G spectrum ahead of others with a condition that both will pay the price equivalent to the highest bid. This was done keeping in mind the cumbersome process to procure equipment by the PSUs vis-a-vis by the private players. The government has deferred the 3G spectrum auction to January 30, delaying it by 15 days. As per the new revised timeline, the state-run operators might get lead lead over the private operators. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
