Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (abbreviated BSNL) is a state-owned telecommunications aggregation headquartered in New Delhi, India. It is the better provider of anchored telephony and fourth better adaptable telephony provider in India, and is additionally a provider of broadband services. However, in contempo years the company's acquirement and bazaar allotment plunged into abundant losses due to acute antagonism in Indian telecommunications sector.45

BSNL is India's oldest and better advice account provider (CSP). It had a chump abject of 90 actor as of June 2008.6 It has aisle throughout India except for the city cities of Mumbai and New Delhi, which are managed by Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL).

Administrative units

Telecom Circles in India

Andaman & Nicobar Telecom Circle

Dobaspet

Tamil Nadu Telecom Circle

Jharkhand Telecom Circle

Bihar Telecom Circle

Andhra Pradesh Telecom Circle

Assam Telecom Circle

Chhattisgarh Telecom Circle

Gujarat Telecom Circle

Haryana Telecom Circle

Himachal Pradesh Telecom Circle

Jammu & Kashmir Telecom Circle

Jharkhand Telecom Circle

Karnataka Telecom Circle

Kerala Telecom Circle

Madhya Pradesh Telecom Circle

Maharashtra Telecom Circle

North East-I Telecom Circle

North East-II Telecom Circle

Orissa Telecom Circle

Punjab Telecom Circle

Rajasthan Telecom Circle

Uttranchal Telecom Circle

Uttar Pradesh East Telecom Circle

Uttar Pradesh West Telecom Circle

West Bengal Telecom Circle

Challenges

During the banking year 2008-2009 (from April 1, 2008 to March 31, 2009) BSNL has added 8.1 actor fresh barter in assorted blast casework demography its chump abject to 75.9 million. BSNL's abutting adversary Bharti Airtel is continuing at a chump abject of 62.3 million. However, admitting absorbing advance apparent by BSNL in contempo times, the Fixed band chump abject of BSNL is declining. In adjustment to woo aback its fixed-line barter BSNL has brought bottomward continued ambit calling amount beneath OneIndia plan, however, the success of the arrangement is not known. However, BSNL faces austere budgetary 2009-2010 as users flee12

Presently there is an acute antagonism in Indian Telecom area and assorted Telcos are rolling out adorable schemes and are accouterment acceptable chump services.

Access Deficit Charges (ADC, a burden actuality paid by the clandestine operators to BSNL for accommodate account in non-lucrative areas abnormally rural areas) has been bargain by 20% by TRAI, w.e.f. April 1, 2009.13 The abridgement in ADC may hit the bottomlines of BSNL.

BSNL has started 3G casework in 290 cities and acquired added than 6 Lakh customers. It has planned to cycle out 3G casework in 760 cities beyond the country in 2010-11.

Broadband casework : The about-face in appeal from articulation to abstracts has revolutionized the actual attributes of the network. BSNL is assertive to banknote on this befalling and has planned for all-encompassing amplification of the Broadband services. The Broadband chump abject of 3.56 Actor chump in March'2009 is planned to be added to 16.00 actor by March 2014.14 Now bsnl is the beneath top bristles telecom account provider aggregation in India. back compared to added telecom companies the affection of advisers are not satisfactory.customer oriented,management abilities are additionally poor,the influenece of unions in the organisation will additionally affect the approaching of bsnl

3G Coverage

BSNL has the largest 3G network in India. Additionally, BSNL 3G services usually cover not only the main town/city but also the adjoining suburbs and rural areas as well.
As of now BSNL has 3G services in 826 cities across India. The following is a list of BSNL 3G enabled towns/cities. This list covers only BSNL 3G services provided through HSDPA/HSUPA and HSPA+ for GSM subscribers and not EVDO for CDMA subscribers.
Note: This list may not be complete as new towns/cities are added regularly.

Competitors

BSNL competes with 14 added adaptable operators throughout India. They are Aircel, Airtel Cheers Mobile, Idea, Loop Mobile, MTNL, MTS, Ping Mobile, Reliance Communications, S Tel, Tata DoCoMo, Tata Indicom, Uninor, Videocon, Virgin Adaptable and Vodafone.