Anupam Shrivastava

BSNL's 3,000 customer service centres to offer Aadhaar enrolment and updation facilities

With this, BSNL joins the roaster of entities like banks and post offices that are authorised by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to offer Aadhaar services.

BSNL and Nokia to jointly deploy pollution detecting smart poles across India

These smart poles will also work as mobile towers, wifi hotspot, street lighting and surveillance.

DoT likely to approach Cabinet for 4G spectrum to state-run BSNL, MTNL in November; survival tough without it, says minister

BSNL has pan-India operations except in Delhi and Mumbai, while MTNL provides services in Delhi and Mumbai circles.

BSNL follows suit after MTNL; seeks two year extension in mobile licence validity

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has written to the government to extend the validity of its cellular licence and spectrum for two more years till 2022.

BSNL reports decrease in loss from Rs 6,121 crore to Rs 4,890 crore in April-December 2016

State-owned BSNL's losses have narrowed to Rs 4,890 crore for the nine months ended December 31, 2016, from Rs 6,121 crore in the year-ago period.

BSNL launches prepaid plans for Rs 149; free local and STD calls for 30 minute everyday

To match competition from private players, the state-owned BSNL today came out with a pre-paid scheme under which new subscribers can make 30 minutes of free voice calls local and STD daily to any other network for a month, for Rs 149.

BSNL will go head-to-head with Reliance Jio; will match it "tariff-by-tariff'

State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) on Tuesday termed Reliance Jio’s entry into the market a “challenge” for all operators, but said it expects to match the intense competition “tariff-by-tariff.”

BSNL doubles data limits for 3G plans, offers unlimited 3G plan for Rs 1099

To counter competitors, state-run BSNL today announced a national unlimited 3G mobile data plan for Rs 1,099 and doubled the data usage limit in some existing plans.

BSNL to set up 40,000 Wi-Fi hotspots; claims it's faster than 4G

Public sector telecom major BSNL said on Monday it is working on setting up 40,000 Wi-Fi Hotspots in the country to counter its inadequacy in providing 4G data services.

Union Telecom Ministry issues notices to BSNL and MTNL for bad service quality!

The Telecom Ministry has issued notices to state-owned BSNL, MTNL and India Posts after Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad personally took note of citizen complaints over service quality on social media since July.