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Jan 13, 2016
BSNL launches 4G services in Chandigarh
State owed telecom service provider BSNL has launched the high speed 4G (Fourth Generation) telecom services at Chandigarh in Punjab circle .
With this launch, BSNL became fifth telecom service provider in India to launch 4G service after Airtel (1st), Aircel (2nd), Vodafone (3rd) and Reliance Jio (4th).
About BSNL 4G
- BSNL 4G network will be able to provide high speed data upto 100 Mbps.
- Its customers will be able to download large files of the order of 1 GB within few seconds which at present takes hours on current 2G/3G networks.
- BSNL will also provide 4G services to government agencies for video camera surveillance, traffic management solutions and home- land security service in India.
- BSNL has established 620 wifi hotpsots at present and will be able to complete 2500 wifi hotspots by end of this financial year.
- By end of next fiscal, BSNL is planning to take the total number to 40,000.
- The company after about 4 years of reporting losses, posted an operating profit of Rs. 672 crore for the financial year 2014-15 compared to an operating loss of Rs. 691 crore in the previous fiscal.
BSNL has 4G spectrum across India except in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kolkata.
Nov 1, 2015
Facebook to help BSNL set up 100 wi-fi hotspots in rural India
Social media giant Facebook has partnered with the state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) for setting up 100 wi-fi (Wireless Fidelity) sites in rural India.
In this regard both entities have inked an agreement under which
- Facebook will sponsor 100 wi-fi hotspots in villages across west and southern India.
- It will pay 5 lakh rupees for BSNL bandwidth for each hotspot per annum.
- The partnership will be for three years and it can be further extended for two more years.
With this BSNL will be able to set up wi-fi hotspots in areas where it is not commercially feasible to run those and also extending its optical fibre connectivity services to these hotspots.
The hotspots would be set up by BSNL-selected vendor Quad Zen revenue share model.
This partnership will help in boosting the Union Government’s flagship Digital India to ensure that Government services are made available to citizens electronically by improving online infrastructure and by increasing Internet connectivity.
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