BSNL introduces per-second billing plan with one-year validity
New Delhi: Bharat Sanchar Nigam limited (BSNL), one of the leading telecom operators in India, has launched a ‘pay-per second’ billing plan, with one-year validity, for its GSM pre-paid mobile customers.
According to the new plan, mobile services are available at a cost of 1 paise per second for local calls and STD calls within the BSNL network.
Calls to networks other than BSNL will cost 1.2 paise per second.
This move by the BSNL follows announcement of similar plans by private telecom operators such as Tata Docomo, Vodafone Essar, Bharti Airtel, and Reliance Communications.
For those BSNL subscribers who wish to remain on the minute-based tariff scheme, the company has announced a 49-paise-per-minute plan for all local calls and STD calls. SMS costs 49 paise in this plan.
BSNL’s is the cheapest tariff offered by any telecom operator on a per-minute basis. (RCom and Airtel and recently had reduced their charges to 50 paise a minute.)
In addition, BSNL has announced that it will offer a 30-paise-per-minute plan to subscribers availing of a 3G connection.
At present, telecom operators are charging prices ranging from 90 paise a minute to Rs 1.20 a minute for voice calls on 3G pre-paid cards.
BSNL is the only telecom operator that offers 3G services across India.
According to Kuldeep Goyal, chairman and managing director of BSNL, so far the company has failed to attract sufficient number of subscribers on its 3G platform.
BSNL has allowed changeover from 2G to 3G almost free of charge.
The company also has entered into a tie-up with Dell and Olive Telecommunication (the parent company of Haier Mobile) to introduce embedded 3G Netbooks with high-speed internet access.
These measures, Kuldeep Goyal added, are expected to boost BSNL’s 3G customer base further.
Meanwhile, BSNL said it is not planning to call new bids for a 93-million-line order for GSM.
However, Kuldeep Goyal confirmed that the company has ordered 8 million 2G GSM lines from Huawei, a Chinese firm, which will be installed up in the southern states of the country.
Ericsson has been short-listed to provide lines in the country’s northern and eastern states.
Goyal said that BSNL is likely to open direct negotiations for a stake in Zain, of Kuwait, in case its exclusive talks as a part of a consortium fail.
Both BSNL and MTNL are part of a group led by Vavasi, a little-known Indian firm, which aims to take a 46% holding in the Kuwaiti firm from shareholders, including the Kharafi Group.
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