Committed to the Government’s Digital initiatives announced by
Hon.ble PM, BSNL has decided to upgrade Broadband speed to minimum 2 Mbps at no
additional cost for all the Broadband customers on PAN-India Basis from 1st
October 2015. This is another major service offering from BSNL for the
benefits of customers in continuation to offering free night calling from BSNL
landline to all operator network from 9:00 PM to 7:00 AM and free incoming
roaming services for its mobile customers. BSNL is also offering 1Gb free
E-Mail box to their customers from 50 Mb mail box.
Shri Ravi
Shankar Prasad Hon’ble MOC &IT, GOI announced this today here at Gurgaon in
a function organized by BSNL. The function was graced by Shri Rao Inderjeet
Singh Hon’ble MOS for Planning & MOS for Defence (Independent charge) GOI.
Shri Anupam Srivastav CMD BSNL, Shri N K Gupta Director (CFA), Smt Sujata Ray
Director (HR) BSNL Board and Shri R C Arya CGM Haryana circle were also present
on the occasion.
The speed
up-gradation will benefit all the existing and new Broadband customers of BSNL.
Under this scheme, BSNL is upgrading the speed of existing Broadband plans of
512 Kbps & 1 Mbps to 2 Mbps speed. With this upgradation, BSNL
customers can access / surf the internet including social network websites like
Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc. at high speed.
BSNL is the first
service provider to provide the Broadband Access to the country. BSNL launched
the Broadband services over its landline in India in 2005 with speed of
256kbps and above over the state of art Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
based IP infrastructure in urban as well as Rural areas.
BSNL since then
is constantly working for increasing the broadband speed for the enhanced
experience of customer in urban as well as rural areas as envisaged in New
Telecom Policy 2012.. Now, BSNL offers Broadband services with various plans
ranging from 2 mbps to 100 mbps speed using ADSL/VDSL and fiber based GPON
technology in a very affordable price range. BSNL is currently having around 10
Mn Broadband customers including about 1.1 Mn. Rural customers.
This up-gradation
shall enhance customer experience while surfing on internet and enjoying live
video streaming by all customers even in the low price range. This scheme is
expected to attract new customers for subscribing BSNL Broadband customers in
an affordable manner.
BSNL is one of the largest Telecom Service providers in
India. BSNL has installed Quality Telecom Network in the country & focusing
on improving it, expanding the network, introducing new telecom services with
ICT applications. BSNL is having more than 77 Million Mobile customers, more
than 16 million wired line telephone connections and around 10 million wired
Broadband connections.
For further
information, customers can access the BSNL Customer Care Service through Toll
free number 1500 (from BSNL number) & 1800 345 1500 (from other operator
number) or visit the BSNL website www.bsnl.co.in.
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