Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
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| Type | Telecommunication service provider |
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| Availability | Indiawide except Delhi and Mumbai |
| Founded | 19th century, incorporated 2000 |
| Slogan | Connecting India |
| Revenue | US$ 9.67 billion (2007) |
| Owner | The Government of India |
| Key people | Kuldeep Goyal (CMD) |
| Website www.bsnl.in www.bsnl.co.in |
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Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (known as BSNL, India Communications Corporation Limited) is a public sector telecommunication company in India. It is India's largest telecommunication company with 24% market share as on March 31, 2008. Its headquarters are at Bharat Sanchar Bhawan, Harish Chandra Mathur Lane, Janpath, New Delhi. It has the status of Mini Ratna, a status assigned to reputed public sector companies in India.
BSNL is India's oldest and largest Communication Service Provider (CSP).[citation needed] Currently has a customer base of 90 million as of June 2008.[1] It has footprints throughout India except for the metropolitan cities of Mumbai and New Delhi which are managed by MTNL. As on March 31, 2008 BSNL commanded a customer base of 31.55 million Wireline, 4.58 million CDMA-WLL and 54.21 million GSM Mobile subscribers. BSNL's earnings for the Financial Year ending March 31, 2007 stood at INR 397.15b (US$ 9.67 b) with net profit of INR 78.06b (US$ 1.90 billion). BSNL has an estimated market value of $ 100 Billion. The company is planning an IPO with in 6 months to offload 10% to public in the Rs 300-400 range valuing the company at over $100 billion.
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[edit] Services
BSNL provides almost every telecom service in India. Following are the main telecom services provided by BSNL:
- Universal Telecom Services : Fixed wireline services & Wireless in Local loop (WLL) using CDMA Technology called bfone and Tarang respectively. As of December 31, 2007, BSNL has 81% marketshare of fixed lines.
- Cellular Mobile Telephone Services: BSNL is major provider of Cellular Mobile Telephone services using GSM platform under the brand name BSNL Mobile[2]. Prepaid cellular services of BSNL are also known as BSNL Mobile. As of March 31, 2007 BSNL has 17% share of mobile telephony in the country.
- Internet: BSNL provides internet services through dial-up connection (Sancharnet) as Prepaid, (NetOne) as Postpaid and ADSL broadband (BSNL Broadband). BSNL has around 50% market share in broadband in India. BSNL has planned aggressive rollout in broadband for current financial year.
- Intelligent Network (IN): BSNL provides IN services like televoting, toll free calling, premium calling etc.
[edit] Administrative units
BSNL is divided into a number of administrative units, termed as telecom circles, metro districts, project circles and specialized units, as mentioned below:
Training Institutions
1. Bharat Ratna Bhim Rao Ambedkar Institute Of Telecom Training, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh
2. National Academy of Telecom Finance and Management, Hyderabad
3. Telecom Factory, Bhopal
4. RTTC Ahmedabad
5. RTTC Trivandrum
6. RTTC, Indore
7. RTTC Jaipur
8. RTTC Pune
9. RTTC BHUBANESHWAR
10. RTTC CHENNAI
11. RTTC GUWAHATI [2]
12. RTTC HYDERABAD
13. RTTC LUCKNOW
14. RTTC MYSORE
15. RTTC NAGPUR
16. RTTC RAJPURA
Other Units
1. Telecom Stores
2. Telecom Electrical Wing
3. Telecom Civil Wing
4. T & D Circle
The service is amazing.
[edit] Present and future
BSNL (then known as Department of Telecom) had been a near monopoly during the socialist period of the Indian economy. During this period, BSNL was the only telecom service provider in the country (MTNL was present only in Mumbai and New Delhi). During this period BSNL operated as a typical state-run organization, inefficient, slow, bureaucratic, and heavily uinionised. As a result subscribers had to wait for as long as five years to get a telephone connection.The corporation tasted competition for the first time after the liberalisation of Indian economy in 1991. Faced with stiff competition from the private telecom service providers, BSNL has subsequently tried to increase efficiencies itself. DoT veterans, however, put the onus for the sorry state of affairs on the Government policies, where in all state-owned service providers were required to function as mediums for achieving egalitarian growth across all segments of the society. The corporation (then DoT), however, failed miserably to achieve this and India languished among the most poorly connected countries in the world. BSNL was born in 2000 after the corporatisation of DoT. The efficiency of the company has since improved. However, the performance level is nowhere near the private players. The corporation remains heavily unionised and is comparatively slow in decision making and implementation. Though it offers services at lowest tariffs, the private players continue to notch up better numbers in all areas, years after year. BSNL has been providing connections in both urban and rural areas. Pre-activated Mobile connections are available at many places across India. BSNL has also unveiled cost-effective broadband internet access plans (DataOne) targeted at homes and small businesses. At present BSNL enjoy's around 60% of market share of ISP services.[3]
2007 has been declared as "Year of Broadband" in India and BSNL is in the process of providing 5 million Broadband connectivity by the end of 2007. BSNL has upgraded existing Dataone (Broadband) connections for a speed of up to 2 Mbit/s without any extra cost. This 2 Mbit/s broadband service is being provided by BSNL at a cost of just US$ 11.7 per month (as of 21/07/2008 and at a limit of 2.5GB monthly limit with 0200-0800 hrs as no charge period). Further, BSNL is rolling out new broadband services such as triple play.
BSNL is planning to increase its customer base to 108 million customers by 2010. With the frantic activity in the communication sector in India, the target appears achievable.
BSNL is a pioneer of rural telephony in India. BSNL has recently bagged 80% of US$ 580 m (INR 2,500 crores) Rural Telephony project of Government of India.[4]
On the 20th of March, 2009, BSNL advertised the launch of BlackBerry services across its Telecom circles in India. The corporation has also launched 3G services in select cities across the country. Presently, BSNL and MTNL are the only players to provide 3G services, as the Government is still in the process of auctioning the 3G spectrum to private players.
[edit] Challenges
During the financial year 2006-2007 (from April 1, 2006 to March 31, 2007) BSNL has added 9.6 million new customers in various telephone services taking its customer base to 64.8 million. BSNL's nearest competitor Bharti Airtel is standing at a customer base of 39 million. However, despite impressive growth shown by BSNL in recent times, the Fixed line customer base of BSNL is declining. In order to woo back its fixed-line customers BSNL has brought down long distance calling rate under OneIndia plan, however, the success of the scheme is not known. However, BSNL faces bleak fiscal 2006-2007 as users flee, which has been accepted by the CMD BSNL.[5]
Presently there is an intense competition in Indian Telecom sector and various Telcos are rolling out attractive schemes and are providing good customer services.
Access Deficit Charges (ADC, a levy being paid by the private operators to BSNL for provide service in non-lucrative areas especially rural areas) has been slashed by 37% by TRAI, w.e.f. April 1, 2007.[6] The reduction in ADC may hit the bottomlines of BSNL.
BSNL launched 3G services in 11 cities of country in 2nd march 2009.MTNL which operates in Mumbai and Delhi first launched 3G services in these cities.[7]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Airtel on way to becoming India’s largest telco
- ^ BSNL Mobile
- ^ [http://www.business-standard.com/iceworld/storypage.php?lef tnm=8&subLeft=2&chklogin=N&autono=266455&tab=r Reliance Life Insurance]
- ^ The Hindu News Update Service
- ^ BSNL faces bleak fiscal as users flee
- ^ Trai slashes ADC by 37%, ILD calls to cost 20% less- The Week That Was-The Sunday ET-ET Features-The Economic Times
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