Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited ( cognise as BSNL, India Communications Corporation Limited) is a state-supported sector communications caller- place in India. It is the Indias largest telecommunicationmunicationmunicationmunication company with 25.14% mart share as on December 31, 2007. Its headquarters are at Bharat Sanchar Bhawan, Harish Chandra Mathur Lane, Janpath, unfermented Delhi. It has the status of Mini-ratna a status assigned to reputed Public sphere of influence companies in India.BSNL is Indias oldest and largest Communication Service Provider (CSP). Currently BSNL has a client modest of 68.5 billion (Basic & Mobile telephony). It has footprints doneout India except for the metropolitan cities of Mumbai and New Delhi which are managed by MTNL. As on December 31, 2007 BSNL commanded a guest base of 31.7 million Wireline, 4.1 million CDMA-WLL and 32.7 million GSM Mobile subscribers. BSNLs earnings for the fiscal Year ending March 31, 2007 stood at INR 397.15b (US $ 9.67 b) with winnings profit of INR 78.06b (US$ 1.90 billion). Today, BSNL is Indias largest prognosticate company and one of the largest Public Sector Undertaking with estimated market value of $ carbon Billion. The company is planning an IPO with in 6 months to offload 10 % to general.Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. formed in October, 2000, is Worlds 7th largest telecommunications Company providing comprehensive range of telecom function in India Wireline, CDMA runny, GSM Mobile, Internet, Broadband, Carrier service, MPLS-VPN, VSAT, VoIP services, IN Services etc. deep down a span of five years it has become one of the largest public sector unit in India.BSNL has installed Quality telecom Network in the earth and now focusing on improving it, boom outing the earnings, introducing sassy telecom services with ICT applications in villages and wining customers confidence. Today, it has about 47.3 million line basic telephone capacity, 4 million WLL capacity, 20.1 Million GSM Capacity, more than 37382 fixed exchanges, 18000 BTS, 287 Satellite Stations, 480196 Rkm of OFC Cable, 63730 Rkm of microwave Network connecting 602 Districts, 7330 cities/towns and 5.5 Lakhs villages.BSNL is the only service provider, making focused efforts and planned initiatives to nosepiece the Rural-Urban Digital Divide ICT sector. In fact on that point is no telecom operator in the country to beat its reach with its wide network giving services in every nook & corner of country and operates across India except Delhi & Mumbai. Whether it is inaccessible areas of Siachen glacier and North-eastern region of the country. BSNL serves its customers with its wide bouquet of telecom services.BSNL is numero uno operator of India in all services in its license area. The company offers vide ranging & most transparent tariff schemes designed to suite every customer. BSNL cellular service, CellOne, has more than 17.8 million cellular customers, garnering 24 percent of all mobile explo iters as its subscribers. That means that almost every fourth mobile user in the country has a BSNL connection. In basic services, BSNL is miles ahead of its rivals, with 35.1 million Basic Phone subscribers i.e. 85 per cent share of the subscriber base and 92 percent share in revenue terms.BSNL has more than 2.5 million WLL subscribers and 2.5 million Internet Customers who access Internet through various modes videlicet Dial-up, Leased Line, DIAS, Account Less Internet(CLI). BSNL has been adjudged as the NUMBER ONE ISP in the country.BSNL has set up a world class multi-gigabit, multi-protocol convergent IP infrastructure that provides convergent services like voice, data and video through the same Backbone and Broadband Access Network. At present there are 0.6 million DataOne broadband customers. The company has vast experience in Planning, Installation, network integration and Maintenance of Switching & Transmission Networks and also has a world class ISO 9000 certified Telecom Training Institute.Scaling new heights of success, the present turnover of BSNL is more than Rs.351,820 million (US $ 8 billion) with net profit to the tune of Rs.99,390 million (US $ 2.26 billion) for last financial year. The infrastructure asset on telephone alone is worth about Rs.630,000 million (US $ 14.37 billion).BSNL plans to expand its customer base from present 47 millions lines to 125 million lines by December 2007 and infrastructure investment plan to the tune of Rs. 733 crores (US$ 16.67 million) in the adjoining three years.The turnover, nationwide coverage, reach, comprehensive range of telecom services and the go for to excel has made BSNL the No. 1 Telecom Company of India. write upThe foundation of Telecom Network in India was laid by the British sometime in 19th century. The history of BSNL is linked with the beginning of Telecom in India. In 19th century and for almost entire twentieth century, the Telecom in India was operated as a Government of India wing. E arlier it was breach of erstwhile Post & Telegraph Department (P&T). In 1975 the Department of Telecom (DoT) was separated from P&T. DoT was responsible for running of Telecom services in entire country until 1985 when Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) was carved out of DoT to run the telecom services of Delhi and Mumbai. It is a well known fact that BSNL was carved out of Department of Telecom to provide level playing field to private telecoms.Subsequently in 1990s the telecom sector was opened up by the Government for Private investment, therefrom it became necessary to separate the Governments policy wing from Operations wing. The Government of India corporatised the operations wing of DoT on October 01, 2000 and named it as Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL).BSNL operates as a public sector.