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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