BSNL makes operational profit, growing at 4 to 5 pc a year

The State-owned telecom provider BSNL hasmade an operational profit of Rs.3000 crore so far and is growingat 4 to 5 per cent annually during the last four years, turningpositive from a minus 5 per cent growth, earlier, a senior officialof BSNL said today.


Moving towards consumer centric technology and enhanced accessspeed, BSNL is geared to match the competition, especially from thelatest operator Reliance GIO, and would be introduced a slew of newschemes on January one, BSNL Director (Consumer Fixed Access) N KGupta said.

Speaking after inaugurating the first ever next generation packetAggregation Network (MNG PAN) in the country here, he said the newtechnological introduction, providing highspeed bandwith inbroadband access network using optical fibre links, would upgradethe backbone of broadband network immediately to 20 G from theexisting 10 G and later it could be scaled upto 40 G, Mr Gupta said.

BSNL in association with FibreHome India planned to introduceMNG PAN in 14 other cities apart from Bangalore, and they were Ahmedabad,Ambala, Chennai, Coimbatore, Ernakulam, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur,Jalandhar, Nagpur, Noida, Pune, Tiruvananthapuram and Vijayawada.While 65 such rings were planned, Karnataka would have nine andinstallation would be completed by February 15 next year.

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