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Though, loss for last financial year (201213) of Rs. 7884 Cr was lesser than the loss in 201112 (Rs. 8851 Cr), it is reported that it would take few more years for BSNL to be profitable again. While BSNL can get bailouts from Government like any ailing PSU, no amount of bailout would help in the longer run. A company of BSNL’s stature must look to build up revenues by virtue of its core strengths. In this post we make efforts to note BSNL’s strengths and provide suggestions on how they can be leveraged to turn profitable in the long run. BSNL’s Strengths 1. People trust BSNL – The first and foremost thing, trust is really important for any company to gain and retain customers. BSNL is renowned for transparent billing, no hidden costs and minimal pesky marketing calls. 2. Vast infrastructure – PAN India 3G network which is being expanded on aggressive note 3. Government backing – many government schemes like rural broadband network get rolled out through BSNL. Now this can cause fund crunch if funds don’t reach on time but BSNL must take care to see that such things don’t happen! 4. BSNL offices at prime locations in every town and city including metros These core strengths must be effectively utilized inorder to turn profitable. We suggest following measures for improving things. Improve customer care When people trust a brand and avail their services, it is the brand’s responsibility to serve them in an efficient manner. BSNL ironically is currently well known for poor customer support. Any article from us on BSNL garners at least one negative comment about the poor support. Being a BSNL customer myself I have experienced this over the years. Some common experiences are: 1. Long waiting times (even > 15 minutes) to talk to customer care executives and after an executive is reached the call gets put on hold or even disconnected suddenly 2. Sub par communication skills of call center executives. Even after choosing English as communication language at IVR, they speak in local language. Quality of English is poor. 3. Apart from tariff benefits I was never able to get satisfactory answers to queries. Most of the times I was asked to call after few hours with reasoning of server down. 4. Fake assurances of issue would be solved in 24 hours, and they keep adding 24 hours thereafter even without registering a complaint – reasoning server down! Have experienced this both in Karnataka and AP. Last experience was some six months ago in AP. Some aspects above have improved, particularly in Karnataka, but the situation remains largely same in other circles like AP. Having experienced this, I stopped calling customer care for matters like billing/recharge issues – used to take a top down approach of calling top level officials. Such approaches from multiple customers would not only hamper the work of top officials but also make the whole concept of call center useless. To make customers happy: 1. BSNL must improve skill sets of customer care executives – lame excuses like server down are no more acceptable. 2. Provide a website which works for logging complaints. Logged complaints must be addressed on time with timely updates till then. Read Online Recharge Woes with BSNL Portal 3. Log on to social media – how about centralized twitter and facebook accounts for PAN India customers with a dedicated team who can escalate issues, call back customers and solve problems. Private operators do this in a good way. Though they appear to use bots sometimes, issues get solved within said time often. 4. Provide modern means of support – like online chat system. In the age of instant messaging customers would certainly welcome this. 5. A proper feedback mechanism to rate call center executives. Though an SMS comes after call, not sure if the responses are looked onto! Improve marketing First step towards marketing is having a good looking, uptodate website. Though the main website was revamped, circle websites have dated (read 1990s) looks. The circle specific websites serve little purpose and given the little publicity they receive little customers know about their existence. The answer lies in the integration of all websites. BSNL can showcase themselves as one big brand. Merge all websites into one – circle specific, commerce (portal.bsnl.in) and customer care (selfcare portals – currently each zone has one). This is how private operators have it. This integration will make things easier – one team for maintenance, consistent look across sites, customers can be given unified login benefits. The social media accounts meant for customer care can be used for brand building. Web advertisements, newspaper ads, outdoor hoardings are other avenues. Email marketing can be done, but this must be done very professionally – emails must not be sent everyday for instance. Again design matters here. Leverage Core Strengths Employees Core strength of any organization is its employees. Employees can build or break a brand. So like every brand BSNL must make efforts to keep employees happy and also leverage them for building the brand. Inorder to motivate people to do more, an overhaul of HR policies like aligning them to modern corporate practices might be necessary – accelerated growth options, attractive perks, recognitions in the form of awards etc. Almost everyone is on social media these days. Positive/informative posts from employees will certainly help BSNL build an identity amongst the net savvy public. This will also provide a sense of achievement and celebrity status to employees. Employee unions who are often considered as trouble makers by calling for strikes can be taken into confidence to talk about the brand. The word of mouth still remains a powerful medium in attracting people to make a choice. Imagine every employee bringing one new customer into BSNL family. Avoid corruption : Linemen who are often contract employees must be trained not to demand money. While this does not happen everywhere they are still known to disrupt landline connections if not paid for their ‘services'(!). While it is possible to bring such issues to notice of higher officials, public generally do not go the extra mile or sometimes do not know whom to contact. Infrastructure One of the core strengths BSNL has is its vast infrastructure – telecom towers, fiber optic network, buildings in prime locations. This infrastructure can be smartly encashed. Some of these are already being done, but those arrangements can be increased. 1. Tower sharing agreements with other cellular operators – BSNL is in a unique position here as they probably own a large share of cell towers in rural areas. Though this may lead to an opinion that BSNL would lose customers that can anyway happen. Private operators who are generally aggressive will set up towers independently! 2. Routing other network traffic through BSNL’s vast fiber optic network 3. Buildings in prime locations can be leased out for commercial purposes. Recently AP BSNL floated EOI notice for installing ATMs at BSNL office premises.

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BSNL Continues to Report losses What Should be Next Our AnalysisHomeAnalysisBSNL Continues to Report losses What Should be Next Our AnalysisReported by Chethan S Analysis BSNL Last Updated December 23 2013 at 114 pm 140

BSNL has been reporting straight losses consecutively for four years now Though loss for last financial year (2012shy13) of Rs 7884 Cr was lesser than the loss in 2011shy12 (Rs 8851 Cr) it is reported that it wouldtake few more years for BSNL to be profitable again

While BSNL can get bailouts from Government like any ailing PSU no amount of bailout would help in the longer run A company of BSNLrsquos stature must look to build up revenues by virtue of its core strengths

In this post we make efforts to note BSNLrsquos strengths and provide suggestions on how they can be leveraged to turn profitable in the long run

BSNLrsquos Strengths

1 People trust BSNL ndash The first and foremost thing trust is really important for any company to gain and retain customers BSNL is renowned for transparent billing no hidden costs and minimal pesky marketing calls2 Vast infrastructure ndash PAN India 3G network which is being expanded on aggressive note3 Government backing ndash many government schemes like rural broadband network get rolled out through BSNL Now this can cause fund crunch if funds donrsquot reach on time but BSNL must take care to see that such things donrsquot happen4 BSNL offices at prime locations in every town and city including metros

These core strengths must be effectively utilized inorder to turn profitable We suggest following measures for improving things

Improve customer care

When people trust a brand and avail their services it is the brandrsquos responsibility to serve them in an efficient manner BSNL ironically is currently well known for poor customer support Any article from us on BSNL garners at least onenegative comment about the poor support Being a BSNL customer myself I have experienced this over the years Some common experiences are

1 Long waiting times (even gt 15 minutes) to talk to customer care executives and after an executive is reached the call gets put on hold or even disconnected suddenly2 Sub par communication skills of call center executives Even after choosing English as communication language at IVR they speak in local language Quality of English is poor3 Apart from tariff benefits I was never able to get satisfactory answers to queries Most of the times I was asked to call after few hours with reasoning of server down4 Fake assurances of issue would be solved in 24 hours and they keep adding 24 hours thereafter even without registering a complaint ndash reasoning server down Have experienced this both in Karnataka and AP Last experience was some

six months ago in AP

Some aspects above have improved particularly in Karnataka but the situation remains largely same in other circles like AP Having experienced this I stopped calling customer care for matters like billingrecharge issues ndash used to take a topshydown approach of calling top level officials Such approaches from multiple customers would not only hamper the work of top officials but also make the whole concept of call center useless To make customers happy

1 BSNL must improve skill sets of customer care executives ndash lame excuses like server down are no more acceptable2 Provide a website which works for logging complaints Logged complaints must be addressed on time with timely updates till then Read Online Recharge Woes with BSNL Portal3 Log on to social media ndash how about centralized twitter and facebook accounts for PAN India customers with a dedicated team who can escalate issues call back customers and solve problems Private operators do this in a good way

Though they appear to use bots sometimes issues get solved within said time often4 Provide modern means of support ndash like online chat system In the age of instant messaging customers would certainly welcome this5 A proper feedback mechanism to rate call center executives Though an SMS comes after call not sure if the responses are looked onto

Improve marketing

First step towards marketing is having a good looking upshytoshydate website Though the main website was revamped circle websites have dated (read 1990s) looks The circle specific websites serve little purpose and given the little publicitythey receive little customers know about their existence The answer lies in the integration of all websites BSNL can showcase themselves as one big brand Merge all websites into one ndash circle specific commerce (portalbsnlin) andcustomer care (selfcare portals ndash currently each zone has one) This is how private operators have it This integration will make things easier ndash one team for maintenance consistent look across sites customers can be given unified loginbenefits

The social media accounts meant for customer care can be used for brand building Web advertisements newspaper ads outdoor hoardings are other avenues Email marketing can be done but this must be done very professionally ndash emailsmust not be sent everyday for instance Again design matters here

Leverage Core Strengths

Employees

Core strength of any organization is its employees Employees can build or break a brand So like every brand BSNL must make efforts to keep employees happy and also leverage them for building the brand Inorder to motivate people to domore an overhaul of HR policies like aligning them to modern corporate practices might be necessary ndash accelerated growth options attractive perks recognitions in the form of awards etc

Almost everyone is on social media these days Positiveinformative posts from employees will certainly help BSNL build an identity amongst the net savvy public This will also provide a sense of achievement and celebrity status toemployees Employee unions who are often considered as trouble makers by calling for strikes can be taken into confidence to talk about the brand The word of mouth still remains a powerful medium in attracting people to make a choiceImagine every employee bringing one new customer into BSNL family

Avoid corruption Linemen who are often contract employees must be trained not to demand money While this does not happen everywhere they are still known to disrupt landline connections if not paid for their lsquoservices() While it ispossible to bring such issues to notice of higher officials public generally do not go the extra mile or sometimes do not know whom to contact

Infrastructure

One of the core strengths BSNL has is its vast infrastructure ndash telecom towers fiber optic network buildings in prime locations This infrastructure can be smartly encashed Some of these are already being done but those arrangements can beincreased

1 Tower sharing agreements with other cellular operators ndash BSNL is in a unique position here as they probably own a large share of cell towers in rural areas Though this may lead to an opinion that BSNL would lose customers that cananyway happen Private operators who are generally aggressive will set up towers independently

2 Routing other network traffic through BSNLrsquos vast fiber optic network3 Buildings in prime locations can be leased out for commercial purposes Recently AP BSNL floated EOI notice for installing ATMs at BSNL office premises

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Revenue Generation

1 Concentrate on Enterprise segment ndash happy enterprise customers can bring in big revenues BSNL has necessary capabilities to provide endshytoshyend enterprise solutions in the form of attractive tier wise offerings (small mid large verylarge segments) Primary enterprise need is dedicated fullshytime support which any telecom service provider must provide

2 While increasing tariffs is an option attractive tariffs are the one which makes the difference ndash this is good for individual customers3 Concentrate on improving data network ndash BSNL already has the base ingredient lowest data tariffs in industry With the spurt in smartphones and tablets 3G coverage is becoming more and more important4 Convenience factor for customers

1 BSNL probably has the lowest density of retailer network ndash this makes it increasingly difficult to get a topshyuprecharge done On the other hand recharges for private operators can be done at almost every corner shop Thisdemand supply gap and one poor experience will make a person not to chooserecommend BSNL So dealerfranchisee network must be strengthened

2 SMS based special benefits activation While similar benefits are available across circles in terms of tariffs SMSUSSD based activation is available only in handful of circles Karnataka and Kerala allow almost every STVactivation by SMS while AP and Maharashtra allow minimal Uniformity all over is important

3 PAN India tariff rollouts do not happen on the same day even after announcement by Corporate office Circle websites fail to notify announcements on time This is where a centralized single website can benefit4 Recently BSNL announced the go green initiative ndash despite of registering for the facility I got a print bill this month Such fails are not desirable

5 Cell towers can be powered by renewable sources of energy thus reducing dependency on electricity and hence cutting down power bills6 Mounting dues must be brought down ndash this alone can bring in crores to BSNL7 Introduce a BSNL Wallet ndash like Airtel money8 Shut down loss making telephone exchanges or the ones which bring less revenue ndash many people opt for landline just due to broadband benefits through such exchanges (mainly rural) 3G data cards at special prices could be encouraged

at such places9 Introduce certificate courses for interested at competitive prices As of now BSNL is providing internship opportunities to technology students

From our readers responses at different times we believe they are still ready to accept BSNL as their preferred service provider Good luck BSNL for the turnaround As a reader what you think Do you have any suggestion that can makeBSNL back in track do let us know via comments

Story first published on December 23 2013 at 1100 am

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Chethan SSenior Research Analyst

GIS Professional with an interest in Telecommunications I study the global trends and assess how they can help Indian telecom industry and the consumer

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Juneja shy Nagpur January 3 2015 532 pm 532 PM

Corruption is the root cause of all the evils of the PSU Every officer right from Group C upto CMD are totally corruptRight from procurement of Equipment and stores by Corporate office higher officers till the delivery of services tothe door steps of customers there is totally corruption due which non standard Equipments and stores are used and services are also degradedThere is no right HR policy to properly motivate the staffs and executives and there alsocorruption plays a disaster role and there is no respect for morale and sincere officers of the PSUIf a CBI raid is conducted in all the top brasses in HR and MM department of the BSNL Corporate office then definitely a bulk no ofofficers can be caught to be possessing disproportionate assets in their ketty

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SS June 3 2014 1249 pm 1249 PM

If you have an international roaming sim then you follow the steps (if you hadnrsquot)shy

go to sim toolkit(celloneBSNL Mobile)gtgtnetworkgtgtinternationalgtgtcellone partner

Restart device and if no signal select network manually

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ER Raghvendra ( JTO shyBSNL north ) May 19 2014 1203 pm 1203 PM

Guys everything amp everyone are not perfect Secondly u guys are quiet True in ur side hellip But There are many flaws but main cause which I see daily are 1) it is only amp only Engineers of BSNL who are working hard irrespective of days hrs We get deadlines designing cost cutting applying field work etc2) Everyone in Bsnl is dependant on us Juniors donrsquot listen to us as why wud they coz they get regular income amp not afraid infact aged juniors try to shout on us being seniors3) We have notified seniors many times regarding flaws but they raise there hands amp donrsquot even provide us with proper resources quality amp force us to do magic

So on whole it is basically lack of surveillance on employees especially field one amp ya junior employees are mannerless I wud say

~ a Electrical Engineer working in BSNL north

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hap May 12 2014 852 pm 852 PM

1 proper mgmt of staffs donrsquot promote ministerial staff like clerks to technical posts because they know nothing compared to the urban consumers Also try to decrease the number of ministerial staffs by reducing the number of newjobs2Try to tell the linemen donrsquot demand bribes3 Improve marketing strategy Promote evdo services It is the only true unlimited wireless internet connection4 Give new landline connections only if they are subscribing for broad band connection

5 Last but the most important one Go to supreme court against the Intra Circle Roaming Agreement for 3G It is purely unethical to allow 3G sharing after auctioning pan India spectrum for a huge price The govt may not be interestedin this (we all know the reason)

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BANOTHU SAKRU April 17 2014 227 pm 227 PM

Its very nice discussion If all the employees of BSNL work together for our vision we can get success

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prathap April 5 2014 1130 pm 1130 PM

not plans for farmers i mean agriculture peoples major population of india nearly 50 percent in agriculture mainly now a days agriculture is also need of lack of communication

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Pravat Kumar Das February 28 2014 350 pm 350 PM

Website of BSNL Circle looks like outdated and rejected site Same position of SSA Intranet and also BSNL Employees Unions siteCorruption Grass root employees are temporary or contractual they are getting very marginal payment Example When a Permanent Line Man getting payment Rs 20000 to 35000 same work done by a contractual worker in 1750 to

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2500 Data Entry Operator getting payment 2000 to 2500 and like this a Broadband maintenance work done in 1000 to 2200 Whereas State Govt paid there worker Watchman or Peon Rs 4500 Data Entry Operatorshy Rs 5200 to 8000Technical worker 7500 to 9500 Today in this payment can a person maintain his family and can give his child education Corruption is only for their survival Now days if you find minimum 70 connection of BSNL Land Linesubscriber are getting connection giving extra moneyNext thing is marketing DSA (Direct Sales Agent) appointed for Marketing But in BSNL there are no auto mechanism to give payment no rewards for performance and no promotion to experience person like other organization (LICInsurance and Finance Sector etc) DSAs are not getting payment properly Even 1 year to 2 year payment pending Officers are showing that they are saving BSNL money by breaking DSAs payment To pass a Bill required so manysignatures Every signature creates corruption Last 2 to 3 year it develops gradually There are no rewards for better work When a DSA do better that time Officer Cutoff his bill 20 30 40 and even 50 according to better workIn such a situation how can marketing developUDAAN CFA Marketing wing of BSNL doing nothing only outdated Data entry of Leads Officer and worker engaged in wing expenditure huge amount in this head They are entering data which is already settled If you see data 80to 90 data entered are outdated Actually Project Udaan is very good mechanism but nobody utilized it from top to bottom it is work only Pen and Paper Top Level Officer and Management are neglecting in their duty They are notwatching work only wastage money of BSNL getting payments BSNL give SMS ldquo BSNL in your door steprdquo when a customer giving SMS for a LandLine or Broadband that go to cold store for 2 to 3 months Within this periodcustomer coming to Exchange or office and solving problem in their ways After 2 to 3 month SMS forwarded to field unit SA(Sales Associate) I think 60 of Udaan SA (Sales Associate) not using their ID they have no computerknowledge this work done by STL (Sales Team Leader)

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Rudresha January 12 2014 1029 pm 1029 PM

HiFriendsBSNL having some weakness is follows1) Cheif managing director to group shyD employ counting there days for super annuation2) all employs are high paid for there work3) almost all the time BSNL work is non productive4) even after 13 years BSNLstill now not having clear and futuristic HR policy5) BSNL Must practice preventive and protective maintenance for quality serviceoveral Bsnl realy doing good with all demerits

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ajay January 12 2014 822 am 822 AM

I think its issue should be resolved They should opt or leave bsnl Second is lack of corporate culture Third is group c amp d unions which only do vote politics over services

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subham January 11 2014 645 pm 645 PM

USSD based services activation is one of the importantswhich BSNL lacks most

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Kaushik Roy January 9 2014 1005 pm 1005 PM

BSNL started online EshyAUCTION of its 75 premium numbers for all circlesThe prices vary from 5000 to 25000A little way of some earning from the loss making GIANT

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will January 3 2014 940 pm 940 PM

Well staff thinks its a goverment run company so they take everyting for granted i thnk bsnl should be pravatised now

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Ramesh dhaker kanera gata January 2 2014 543 pm 543 PM

Bsnl the best network

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aravind January 2 2014 1224 am 1224 AM

BSNL is state owned company ie peoplersquos telecom companyOthers are private profit making companiesIf BSNL is not in market then the call rate would be increasing day by dayas in the case of petroleum industryPrivate Telecom companies are slowly and silently increasing their tariffsSo support and stay with BSNL as we are all loyal indian citizens

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Bandhan Preet Singh January 22 2014 1156 pm 1156 PM

very right aravind

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Pravin Prashant December 30 2013 439 pm 439 PM

Here i am also facing the same problem which you are facing From some days the BSNL network is very poor and we are unable to talk frequently Voice breaks are a common matter with BSNL network The customer care executivesare not so friendly like other mobile operators The most bizarre fact of BSNL is its server down Whenever you call to a customer care executive they are providing the same answer server down please call later It is strongly advisedBSNL to take care of its intentional customers to make them happy

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Tarun December 30 2013 642 pm 642 PM

Pravin its not only you every BSNL customer is facing the same issue

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BP Singh December 30 2013 1013 pm 1013 PM

Pravin you must book complaint online and highlight how in ur Area BSNL is not working wellAs a good customer you must raise the matter to highest authority It may make some one happy as u said

BSNL Public Grievance Portal for any kind of complaintshymisbsnlcoinpgsinternetpgwebregnasp

Government Department Related Complaintsshypgportalgovin

RTI Onlineshyrtionlinegovin

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satyajit saikia December 30 2013 430 pm 430 PM

According to me at first the low level employees from casual worker should be trained about the services tariffs etc flawlessly and why our services better than other private operators and also trained them why and how to convince

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the customer For doing this the monetary rewards should be given to them Also some monitory power should be given to TTArsquos as they are running almost every exchanges and low level employees directly connected to them

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kalyankar December 29 2013 932 pm 932 PM

dear chetan thanks for the article very good onehelliphelliphelliphellipthe best point in the article u never tried to degrade bsnl by comparing bsnl with private operatorshellipwho r in the market just to earn money helliphelliphelliphellipand to all those who r withbsnl thanks for ur support becoz of the customers like u bsnl is able to survive against all oddshellipUPA is giving bail out to private firms but it is not willing to bailout the govt owned bsnlhelliphelliphelliphellip+BSNL is very essential to be in the market to prevent the atrocities of private operatorshelliphelliphellipif BSNL is not there then we would have charged even for incoming and call rates might have gone up upto rs 10shyper minutehelliphelliphelliphellipat lastBmdashshyBESTSmdashshySPOKENNmdashshyNATIONALLmdashshyLANGUAGE

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Kiran December 29 2013 309 pm 309 PM

I agree with the above suggestions In my view some practical things that can be done like try to attract the young graduates for marketing for that some dedicated marketing wing should exist Improve the customer satisfaction level bypoliteness and caring for the customers Utilising the infrastructure including training centers for commercial purpose Cost cutting measures to be taken in maintenance

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Indian December 28 2013 733 pm 733 PM

I suggest you come to reality 9999 of ppl who use BSNL donrsquot know approaching social media So any spend by BSNL on social media is waste of money The main pblem is their lazy old employees Their overpaid salaries for thework they r doing is main reason for BSNL loses

Once in bnglr I tried to shift my BB connection when I changed room amp I had to go pillar to post between two BSNL exchanges amp even after 15 days the connection didnrsquot got transference but a single call to a private BB every gotdone So itrsquos mainly their lazy employees

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G SUMANTH KUMAR TTA BSNL MACHILIPATNAM December 27 2013 1115 pm 1115 PM

If BSNL Management implements proper transfer policy then things will change almost And good quality infrastructure should be provided for better results In staff side BSNL is paying Rs 50000shy approximately for the clerical dutiesin the organization in these days also even its implementing paper less concept Management should remove the unproductive staff like watchman s also BSNL paying Rs 40000shy per month

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KALAYAN December 29 2013 934 pm 934 PM

HI SUMANTH I GUESS THIS IS NOT THE PLATFORM TO DISCUSS SUCH ISSUES BEING AN EMPLOYEEE OF BSNL

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kaushal singla December 27 2013 1022 am 1022 AM

in bsnl there should be accountability of every employee for their workbsnl employee doing great work now but if there is no backup at bts then a emplyee cant do anythingif we ask for battery cells there is no cells if we ask for battery protection unit the answer is novery poor maintenance of bts power plant and

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rahul December 27 2013 928 am 928 AM

bsnl plan validity scheme should change out it gives only 6 month validity to compete than others private companies gives near bout 3 years validity and after time goes on validity automatically increased but in bsnl validity game islike a supari killer who contract for a money and have a crime just like bsnl also make compulsion of validity recharge to keep active also sound quality of a call is bull shit and several drawbacks must removed

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Rushabh December 26 2013 951 am 951 AM

I mailed this to CMD mailA reply came from them saying lsquoThankyou for your feedbackWe are in a position of removing conjunction state by statehellipwe have cleared nearly 99 conjunction in maharashtrahellipnow we are making gujrat and go to differentstatesWe will be completing all states by July 14helliprsquo

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MRC Xavier December 26 2013 941 am 941 AM

This is a Wonderful article to motivate the BSNL employees right from CMD to The Group D But how many of them might have read this article to understand the fact I am also an employee of this great company People like me tryour best to convey this kind of informations to our own fellow employees

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For Blackberry 8520 handset you need to recharge only blackberry plan For prepaid this voucher will be in 410 +shy 5 range After recharging with blackberry voucher 1st time service will be start in 2 hrs automatically

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Ankit Negi December 26 2013 137 am 137 AM

very nice analysis by you sir i agree with you

I want to add why BSNL is best

1) Best 3G speed as I get around 900KBps (its kilobytes not kilobits) speed in my town Dehradun where other operators like Airtel gives 300KBps and Idea gives 300KBps while TATA DOCOMO gives aroung 500KBps speed

2) Not a single paisa is wrongly deduced from my balance in last 6 years

In my dehradun (Uttarakhand) the biggest problem with BSNL is 1) Very Very poor customer support if you get any problem then there is no way for you other than go to BSNL main head office and submit your handwritten complain2)Sometimes 3G services do not run in some part of town3) BSNL Uttaranchal website does not remain updated on time

Sir I think curruption is the biggest problem with BSNL Higher authorities of BSNL are highly curropt they choose for customer care services to those companies who gave them very high commision below the table they gave portal maintainence services to those companies who gave themagain very high commisionThis is the main reason of very poor service of BSNL

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Sayantan(Kolkata) December 26 2013 1213 am 1213 AM

I am a die hearted fan of Airtrl but I really feel sad for BSNL as it is sinking slowly and graduallyEverytime when I visit a BSNL exchange I see that its filled with some people from the 50s and 40s who dosent know even T oftechnology and my God their behaviourSo RUDEI dont understand what do these grandfathers think of themselvesWhereas look at the employees of the private operatorsSo smartThey are paid much less than BSNL but still theydont behave rudelySo obviously why wont people prefer BSNLPeople say that BSNL is good and its network is present in the Siachen and Villiages but how many times are we normal people visiting Siachen and villagesIt all thatmatters is the service that we get from them when we at our home location and in my home locationits better to forget that there is a company called BSNL

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P MANOJ December 26 2013 551 pm 551 PM

Dear Mr Sayantan please remember that the rates of other operators including that of Airtel is not increasing only because BSNL is there in the field

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Rajesh May 24 2014 754 pm 754 PM

I accept with you sayantan I also faced similar problem I was attracted by the network availabilty and plans of bsnl and planned to port The first word i got from my colleague is not to go bsnl as it has the worst customer serviceI was working in a MNC and no one here has bsnl connection except me as we are having very good offers from airtel and better connectivity For porting my no to BSNL i went to the bsnl office and people there are behavingreally rude there attitude is like if you want buy otherwise leave I have been to airtel office and people are behaving really good they are asking my requirement and suggesting plan accordingly I am interested in taking postpaidconnection but consoled myself not to go after seeing their behaviour They are not even ready to tell what offers they are having I finally got my sim after visitng there 5 shy6 times which got fortunately activated I Checked theplan in internet as I have office network and activated plans relavant to me Now i am facing problem with my network connection I am in the hot of the bangalore city Koramangala and i am not having proper 3g connection Itried to reach customer care and when they pick they are simply disconnecting it They are not even ready to wait for us to say hello Now i am repenting my move I submitted my complaint online but not sure whether i will getresponse I planned to wait for some time otherwise planning to move to airtel as spending few bucks extra is better than having no connectivity

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N GUPTA (ANDHRA PRADESH) December 25 2013 909 pm 909 PM

Bsnl making loses because of UPA ndash I and II wrong decisions In 2005 and then it cancelled many expansion plans of bsnl So with less towers i canrsquot server huge customers so from last several years bsnl customers are facing problemsWith this reasons many people reluctant to use BSNL service After Upadhya took charge as a CMD they started expansion this year they are adding 147 millions cell lines with help ZTE All these ZTE towers supports 2G 3G 4GNow upadhaya planing to adopt managed network model In this model like nokia or ericsson or alcatelshylucent take care of bsnl network for ten years If they find any congestation in any area they install new tower immediately Inpresent model it canrsquot start new towers immediately And bsnl converting its network switches from TDM to NGN which is very advanced and capable to serve more customers With TDM technology there is much wastage of networkWith NGN technology they can start IPTV Video on Demand etc So Bsnl has to start new services like IPTV Video on demand etc With these service it can earn more revenue Apart from these first BSNL employees fight with UPAgovt if it stop managed model network expansion plans not for their Salaries or DArsquos or Travel charges

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karthik December 25 2013 632 pm 632 PM

recruit new young guys talented is marketing hr etc give vrs for those willing to go because those cannot bring any +impact to bsnl

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Aslam December 25 2013 518 pm 518 PM

BSNL MAKING HUGE LOSSES BECAYSE ITS RUN BY CORRUPT OFFICIALS WORKING IN INTERESTS OF PRIVATE OPERATORS ONLY MODI CAN SAVE BSNL AND INDIA

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XYZ December 25 2013 732 pm 732 PM

modi coruptless no one is corupless in politics

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susfb December 25 2013 457 pm 457 PM

Foremost thing is that BSNL is a service provider and not a business group established for making profit Employees are recruited for maintaining the telecom services and not for marketing Leave these employees for technicalmaintenance form separate marketing wing with young talented guys with marketing aptitude

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Hariharan A December 25 2013 443 pm 443 PM

I appreciate your analasis and suggestion for improvement of bsnl to get profitI have aleady sent my views through my mailBy adopting this Ibelieve bsnl will get profit within 21 monthsshy3 months for consideration of plan and 18months for execute the planBsnl existence is very essential not only for safety of our country but also arrest private operators earning more money from customers for examble we know that they charged for incoming and out goingcalls with high rate before we enter the cell businessThanking you sirHariharan A SrtoaBsnl employee Nagercoil division Tamil nadu Circle

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pradeep December 26 2013 1056 pm 1056 PM

fully agreed with u sirndash pradeepcommon man

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Hariharan A December 25 2013 325 pm 325 PM

The retirment age of the bsnl officials may be reduced from 60 to 58yearswhich will decrease the salary expenditure to a certain extentYoung energetic and enthusiastic engineering graduates may be recruited as apprentice trainees fortwo years to compete with other operators in the fast developing technology after that they may be prefered for regular post Periodically inspectio and surprise check up should be conducted by the officerswhich will help theimprovement of serviceAll nationalisedscheduled banks should be approached for opening ATM centers in BSNL officesas minimum 30 centre in each districtby this we can crores of rupees as profitAlso shopping complex may be constructed in BSNLvacant land by availing bank loan taking advance amount from prospective customers for offering the same for rentPunctuality in duty should be inculcated among staff from top to bottom by introducing card punching which is connected with salary packageThe above practice will yield fruitfull resultIncentiveHonararium payment may be made by means of Top up cards intead of cash paymentsBy fixing a target date for disposal all idle and obsolute storesthe unserviceable stores should be disposed offVacant buildings and BSNL quarters may be given rent for GovtSemi GovtPSU whereever possibleThe tariff benefits and offers should resemble to private operatorsThen only BSNL will survivegtProcedures for international roaming should be simplified like private operatorsPrepaid plans may be rationalisegttop ups and planvalidity voucher may be merged togetherVRS to employees by getting loan from bank is not inteligable

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KOTESWARARAONERELLA December 25 2013 1018 am 1018 AM

MrChetan has very correctly and dispassionately analysed the plus and minuses of BSNLAs a retired senior officer of DOTBSNL I fully agree with MrChetanBasically the staff 100 lines ratio is high in BSNL when compared withother private telcos who got very less staff for 100 lines and consequently the pay bill with pay revison commissions increase along with other central employees thereby major part goes to salariesThese staff were NOT RECRUITEDBY BSNL BUT CAME AS A LEGACY OF DOT and they have to be continued or given VRS with a GOOD GOLDEN HANDSHAKE FOR WHICH THE GOVTHAS TO FINANCE AROUND 10K cores which they are notreleasing2 The staff recruited in 1980s are RAW candidates with little education and they may not be able to express confidently in English with customers and at the most in local language also they have to learn speak polished language whichis to be imparted at Training centres3A few thousands Engineering graduates have been directly recruited as JTO (Junior Telecm Officer ) and TTAs (Telecom Technical Assistants) and these people are not being trained in HRD in the trainng centres to the desired extentthereby they are not being fully exploited4The DOT has to REFUND around 8000shy crores for the BWA spectrum returned back in 2011 and eventhough the GOM has recommened to refund in which FM and MOC are members yet the money is not yet givenIf given then the

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RED will become GREEN in the balance sheet5Supply of Instrumentscables jointing kitsdrop wires etc which are required for EXTERNAL PLANT MAINTENANCE AND DIRECTLY NEEDED FOR THE SUBSCRIBER are in poor supplyI am told they are keepingsometimes RECOVERED AND REPAIRED PHONE INSTRUMENTS TO NEW CUSTOMERS and this should be stopped to increase customer satisfaction6Govt while creating BSNL PSU in 2000 gave lot of promises that it will do all help and take care the needs of PSU but practically there is no such thing either in CASH OR KIND7Even for CAPEX and OPEX BSNL is struggling year after year and atleast the SPECTRUM CHARGES WHICH HAVE BEEN THE HIGHEST PAID BY BSNL shuold be refunded so that it will be on rails and run with full steam tocontinue public patronage which will not be allowed to be done by the private telcos who are waiting for the BSNL not to be a serious contestant against their interest

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Darshan December 25 2013 402 pm 402 PM

Ohh so its due to govthellip$shyiexcl| on the govt due to which bsnl going in red sheetshellip

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shekhar December 25 2013 908 am 908 AM

Make it private sell it Bharti Reilance anybody Free it from Red tapism ITS and Line man culture

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kalyankar December 29 2013 938 pm 938 PM

BOSS DONT WORRY WHEN BSNL IS SOLD TO PRIVATE FIRMS U WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE CALLS WITH PAISAShelliphelliphelliphellipBUT WITH BULK OF RUPEES REQUIRE TO MAKE AND RECIEVE CALLS

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sanjay April 10 2014 205 pm 205 PM

u r right sir

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sanjay April 10 2014 206 pm 206 PM

u r absolutely right kalyankarhellip

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Nazeer Ahmed December 25 2013 905 am 905 AM

The suggesstion given by MrS Chetan are good but Babus at top level of BSNL need changed in their mindset they are shirkers donot want any responsibility and only want handful of salary Other operators sit on the footpath and selltheir SIM card with a xerox machine copy your ID proof with the xerox machine and give cards Can this be done by the BSNL Babus The activation will be done within hours but in BSNL they ask so many question to issue SIMAddress proof apart from Driving licence or PAN card This is how BSNL is sinking

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Debabrata Dutta Kolkata December 25 2013 316 am 316 AM

For last one month missed call alert of BSNL Kolkata is not working on my numberhelliphellip any body facing the same problem has the missed call alert number 17010 been changed I have diverted to 17010 under not reachablecondition but its still not working in Kolkata Kindly reply helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

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Kaushik Roy December 25 2013 942 am 942 AM

yes for me also BSNL MCA is not working and I diverted to 17010

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Kaushik Roy December 24 2013 937 pm 937 PM

Majority people will not use BSNL as primary numbers since its network goes down on a regular basis and one can not rely on it 100 specially single SIM usersOnly for roamers and travellers BSNL is useful for its great coverage I have seen many places in rural areas only BSNL signal is available and no other operator even AshyVOshyID are not there In places like Kolkata people can rely onother network than BSNL But for rural places BSNL is a good optionI used BSNL as my secondary number but I switched off the number majority times when I am in Kolkata I use it only for roaming with plan 199 which gives 180 days roaming incoming free except DelhiMumbai and Jammu ampKashmir and believe me in roaming I did not face much problem with BSNL

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BP Singh December 24 2013 928 pm 928 PM

Links of websites for lodging your Compliant amp Grievances against BSNL and there by improving its work culture

httpmisbsnlcoinpgsinternetpgwebregnaspBefore lodging any complaint to Higher authority make sure that you have approached middle amp lower Mgmt Keep proofs of it

Government Department Related Complaintshttpwwwpgportalgovin

RTI Onlinehttpwwwrtionlinegovin

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sanjay April 10 2014 223 pm 223 PM

BP singhrsquo ji why BSNL is not giving Adrsquos like using mobile more is harmful to brainears as medically prooved while Landline is harmless please create a awareness of use of Landline

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vivek December 24 2013 609 pm 609 PM

The retailer of bsnl dorsquot know what is MNP and what is current tariff in bsnl Then how satishfy a customer that there tariff is best The main reason of bsnl to go in decreasing revenue is that the customer not attracted toward bsnlbecause they dorsquot know what is current scheme of BSNL If you go private shop and ask them for sim then they would not suggest for bsnl If you ask for bsnl then they told that call rate is costly you can not get recharge at each shopsound quality is not good and without asking they suggest you about scheme of private service provider What is reason that they not appreciate bsnl because bsnl not give sufficient share as private give Second thing is BSNL customercare If your balance deduced in wrong way and if you complain for it then they told you that I dorsquot have right to refund your money but they will never tell that I am trying to refund your money by telling appropriate authority Insteadthey give email id and told you that you can contact to appropriate authority by sending email If you told them please sir send me email address then they told sir I donrsquot have right send to sms if you contact that email id you willalways got permanently failure of email

So you can think how good customer care service of BSNL

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Arun K G December 24 2013 852 pm 852 PM

BSNL is giving 55 of MRP on every rechargeTOP up to retailers which is higher among all private operators

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mr rai December 24 2013 541 pm 541 PM

bsnl is run by corrupt babus and ministers hence it will always make huge loss and suck common man blood money

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Arun K G December 24 2013 854 pm 854 PM

Can you tell any goverment public enterprise which donrsquot have any ind of curreption

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AA December 24 2013 523 pm 523 PM

BSNL is the legacy of the govt they will neither abondone nor let it function it is a source of corruption I am sure BSNL will continue to survive for the selfish motivies of the babus

Unless QoS and accountability improves nothing else is possible the effective way to use bsnl is to use it as backup (secoundary) number Bsnl is not in the business race hence forget about drastic improvement The least you expectthe happier you are

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rahul December 24 2013 457 pm 457 PM

bsnl plan validity scheme should change out it gives only 6 month validity to compete than others private companies gives near bout 3 years validity and after time goes on validity automatically increased but in bsnl validity game islike a supari killer who contract for a money and have a crime just like bsnl also make compulsion of validity recharge to keep active also sound quality of a call is bull shit and several drawbacks must removed

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Umesh Singh December 24 2013 250 pm 250 PM

1) BSNL should be allowed to give political parties funding so that it can get tailored made policies like other private operator

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narapareddyp December 24 2013 237 pm 237 PM

In my district(anantapurap) BSNL have 3G network only in few areaswe want more 3G NETWORK

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D Rajendra December 24 2013 135 pm 135 PM

13 yrs have been passed after merger from DOT to BSNL(PSU) but no corporate work culture is devloped among the employeesThis may be one of the reasonsSo first step to make BSNL profitable to motive and wtrngthen themarketing culture

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RKrishna Rao December 24 2013 105 pm 105 PM

The employees and their unionsassociations of BSNL had continuously raised issues concerning the development and expansion of the services Much more to be done to improve the services The mindshyset of the employees needs to befurther improved to face the present challenges and for ensuring a better service to the customers They should always remember that they are important stakeshyholders of the company and at the service of the nation and its people Theyshould educate the employees to seek the support of people for strengthening BSNL

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Abhijit December 24 2013 1256 pm 1256 PM

BSNL can come in profit by charging heavily to its customers who are already paying more than the service quality

hellip just joking as that will end BSNL

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Ganesh December 24 2013 1245 pm 1245 PM

Hey very good pointsI agree with anti corruption measures I bought a new BSNL landline and the line men came 1 week late and they didnrsquot even give the line properly (no dial tone) and when I said thanks they were like give us some money (instead ofthanks) I gave them 20 rupees and they were like who wants those I just told them that I didnrsquot have any Then they went away leaving that 20 But even after 1 week there was no dial tone I then had to complaint to the officials aboutthe line and then they fixed it after 7 days

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Sunil December 24 2013 1228 pm 1228 PM

Infrastructure and network of BSNL are good in comparison to other operators But only the thing to advertise the product tariffand services through employee working in BSNL Employees are only waiting for perks salary hike andother benifits they do not know the latest product and tariff of BSNL Employee working at customer service centre use to watch the time for lunch and closing the officeSome employeesofficers who are not working and even notsigning in files are enjoying service but few dedicated employeesofficer who are working hard are facing inquiries served with charge sheets due to complaints made by fellow lazy employees and contractorsupplier who wish to earnfake money without working Strict discipline is must

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Dr GL Kamei December 24 2013 1210 pm 1210 PM

Chethan S I do appreciate your suggestion c per c My Dad too serving in BSNL in Gr A executive post who I rely everything but he mention about BSNL downfall for which I am worried I am working in a med Institute after my Postshygraduationand my brother would be a med graduate very soon My Brother refuse to use BSNL Product for its poor performances I would upload comments later on

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seema December 24 2013 1207 pm 1207 PM

Lack of strong customer support is ofcourse a reason for the poor performance of BSNL but as indians we should understand BSNLs social commitment it is not profit oriented alone unlike other private operatorsSo do support BSNL LONG LIVE BSNL

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kalyankar December 29 2013 942 pm 942 PM

THANKS SEMMA GOOD COMMENTShellip

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sanjay April 10 2014 214 pm 214 PM

u r right seema

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KK Chaudhary December 24 2013 1033 am 1033 AM

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Condition of BSNL is like Nai in Thakurrsquos Barat

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Vishal Jaiswal December 24 2013 906 am 906 AM

I agree with ur views MrKumar but to cut the losses some decisons in a balanced manner has to taken like VRS for 50+ or 55+ employes to reduce no of employees Use of private agencies to market their product etc etc For a PSUprofit generation is never a motive but generating such a huge loss is also not acceptable

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krishan kumar December 24 2013 234 pm 234 PM

Vishal Jaiswal Can anyone think why BSNL in loss not because it can not make profit

VRS can reduce 50 salary expenditure of BSNL which is about 7700 Cr But giving VRS is like rdquo throw your parents out of your home because they are aged and not capable to contribute as much as they had contributed intheir time for the homerdquo

If BSNL Headed by ambani or others they can throw them even profit was reduced

BSNL is going to install GSM BTS naxalite area for our Defence forces not for profit BSNL know that to run GSM BTS in naxalite area is very difficult and incurred huge expenditure

BSNL going to ring connectivity to East area where revenue is in few crores not for profit but for the people of the country

It all depends on us rdquo If we want BSNL to live who act for the country peoplerdquoIndian Politician doing their best effort to sell BSNL to fill their pockets

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kmalakondaiah December 24 2013 838 am 838 AM

sir i appreciate your analasis and suggestions for improvementi am adding following points ror reaching profits1) attituderespectfriendly atmospherepatience listiningcaringimportancehelping naturepositive approachgood bodylanguage towards custmers is very very very essentials and invitableBSNL is now improving stage when comparedto PampT and DOT but not reached 100 to reach 100 behaviour traing and counselling is required to BSNL employees2) next quality of service shy borodband modemstelephone instrumentsdropwire etc topquality is to be choosen instead of poor qualitythe PampT and DOT slogan lowest price is to be forgotten and high quality is to be kept in mind whileprocuring stores3)maintinance of BTS(cell towers)shy is to be improved by provisionmaintainnig generatorsbattery sets 4)attending brodband complints on top priority5)the average age of bsnl employee is 50 yrsso the existing young jtorsquos and ttas clerksare to be posted in custmer service centers and cell towers maintinaceOr by hiring youngsters between 18shy25 years the 5 lakh employees come down to 25 lakhs now it will comedown to 2 lakhs by 2015BSNL existance is very much essential for the safety our country and to arrest private operators earning money from custemersfor example when the introduction of mobiles by private operators you know they charged for incoming andoutgoing calls at very very high rateswhen BSNL allowed to start mobiles they tariff come down and all the custmers were benifitedfinally one common problem facing by all the custemers from all the telecom operatots is shy some amount is deducting without knowledgeconsent of custemers by means of content providers servicesvalue added servicesall custemersare suffering and bitterly complining on this cheating processThis is highly objectionable and against to indian constitutionso i request all the custemers and eminent people to take all stps to arrest this cheatingi specially requestsupreme court lawers to takeup this issue and stop this cheating

kmalakondaiahBSNL employeevisakhapatnam andhrapradesh

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DrSrinagesh Poduri June 3 2014 1050 am 1050 AM

Dear Malakondaiah garu I am now at Australia If you remember I met you last month I am from Bhimili I purchased a postpaid connection with International Roaming after reaching here when I tried to activate it says thatthe SIM card registration failed Could you please check if the card has been activated for international roaming Thank you

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krishan kumar December 24 2013 1247 am 1247 AM

I want to share some point about BSNL

1 BSNL is feeding 254 Lakh family in india where as other private operator having 5 to 10 of this 70 employees are more than 50+ can they exist in other telecom company2 BSNL still running Landline services in rural areas and facing a loss of 10000 Cr per year where no other operate even think to go in dream3 BSNL still running more than 1000 exchanges where monthly revenue is about 5000 to 6000 but bill of electricity and security in about one lakh per month4 BSNL is giving broadband services in thousands of rural exchange where other operator not even ready to edge network5 In my district BSNL have 3G network in all taluka where only few operator have 3G network in district only I am living in city where Asia largest refinery exist6 Can you imagine the tariff rates AirtelVodafone and Idea If BSNL not in market7 BSNL have its connectivity in lehladakh amarnath siachen etc only for the person who protect our country can touch with their family in such tough condition

there are so many points otherhelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip which makes BSNL for country

If BSNL wants to be become in profit it can be done in 6 monthshelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

1 Reduce employees strength upto 30000 and make unemployment for about 220 lakh employees Airtel having revenue 40000 cr having only 25000 employees3 Close all rural exchanges and cut them from indian economy and save about 10000 Cr per year This is enough to make BSNL in profit4 Close all 3G BTS in rural where it can unable to generate revenue equal to its electricity bill to running the BTS5 Close all BTS in remote area and make Indian defence force to suffer

there are hundreds of point other which BSNL can do to become in profit

I agree BSNL has lots of drawback but imagine the condition of India without BSNL

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Tharun George December 24 2013 815 am 815 AM

BSNL can do the following practical things to get profitable1 Close the landline service and replace all landline with WLL phones For broadband replace with 3GI am telling this because in my area BSNL is not giving both landline or broadband saying line not available2 BSNL is getting paid by UOF fund from Gov to put BTS in remote areas and nexal areas3 In Kerala Idea has more tower in rural area than BSNL Almost all towers of Idea are now 3G But BSNL has only started expanding 3G in 3 years

BSNL is not the only organization with large employees Look at railway largest Gov employer in India Still its running without much loss

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AK December 24 2013 1125 am 1125 AM

Railway has incurred Rs60000 cr loss

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Tharun George December 24 2013 235 pm 235 PM

Indian Railways(From wikipedia)Revenue Increase to INR 12568 billion (US$19 billion) (2012ndash13)Net income Increase to INR 1041 billion (US$16 billion) (2012ndash13)

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Pravat Kumar Das December 24 2013 1256 pm 1256 PM

Very good point about BSNL thanks

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rangarajan December 24 2013 308 pm 308 PM

sirBSNL has a huge work force to be reduced by VRS (VOL REmoval scheme) already i informed authority to work with 30000 to get profit but CMD is calm cos he is retiring in June 2014rangarajan

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A RAO December 24 2013 423 pm 423 PM

All private operators do business BSNL gives Services to public BSNL wants profit it can come with in a year profit by doing business like private opertorsBSNL moto is to give best possible services to public in every corner ofIndia and it is ready to give restore immediately the communication when disastrous rains floods etc occures then the private operators for example a Appreciation letter from Govt of India received for restoration communicationservices at Uttarkand in june 2013 when a big disastrous happened

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sanjay April 10 2014 216 pm 216 PM

good comments sir

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kalyankar December 29 2013 945 pm 945 PM

SIR GOOD COMMENTShelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

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sand December 23 2013 1112 pm 1112 PM

chetan

My idea is that bsnl should have tailor made plans and also special offers for customers who make good amount of rechargesA gift would always make a consumer feel important and he would stick around

Postpaid is the greatest revenue generatorBring down the security deposits at par or lower than private firmsCouple it with the fair and transparent billing of bsnl and they will be instant hit

Have a greatly responsible cust care that responds

Cut down broadband prices now instead of doing it wen maybe 4g brings down tariffs and people have already migratedcustomer loyalty always has its own magic

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sand December 23 2013 1107 pm 1107 PM

Chetan

In my mail apart from the complaints i had mentioned these same things to the CMD as some ideasI dont know if he took any notice of that but since his office acted on the complaint i guess he took notice

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sand December 23 2013 1104 pm 1104 PM

chetan

I have been complaining for the last 2 yrs to fix the bsnlsupportFinally last month i decided to escalate matters furtherI sent my complaint to the CMD of BSNL with the kerala circle head in ccThis was my final attemptIt workedI got a mail back from CMD SECTTAlso complaints of mine were being called up and followed up by the circle head or someone in keralaIf you dont trust me i could put the screen shot of the reply i got hereI think all bsnlcustomers should try thisI even offered the CMD the recorded call with customer care which gave me a 53 min hold timeI think since we choose to vent our anger here and there an dnot take it up in the official way we get no replies or fixesIf every consumer facing the issue instead complains and follows it up and makes sure it gets heard then yes we candefinitly make changes

I ask every bsnl customer to do the same and then we will see the changesDont give up by porting or adjustGet ur voice heard

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k thirmal reddy December 23 2013 1036 pm 1036 PM

Here I should mention thatIf there is any PSU in India without itrsquos own responsible and accountable top managementthat is the one and only BSNLIt is a peculiar situation in BSNLEven after 13 years of its formation it still workslike a Govtdept Definitely there are a handful of top managers of impeccable integrity and concern for itwho can make things happen The best trained executives and prime assets and latest infra are the core strengths They should notbe underestimated The non performing assets to be made performing through innovative methods There are constraintsProfit making is not the ultimate visionbut Hope BSNL shall survive and come up with flags to enhance value inthe hands of customers and save the people of India from the clutches of private coSif Govt has the will to serve the people through BSNL

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b m b December 23 2013 1025 pm 1025 PM

UPA Govt should release all Dues pending from DOT some schemes to be announces like Ex MOS Paswanji schemes of Rs500connectionOfficialsofficers of GOVT should use BSNLHON MOC can look in bottle neck GSMnetworks needs of BSNL

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Vikas agarwal December 23 2013 956 pm 956 PM

I do not think now BSNL can compete with Private operatorsOne SDE of BSNL namely Sailash yadav of Faridabad earning black money and nobody is taking any action against himhe is working in tax section

So if condition like these continues and strict action if not taken then people will fed up from BSNl

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Darshan Malu December 23 2013 944 pm 944 PM

It should be published in newspapers media everywherehellipso that RK upadhya will know abt ithellipor your efforts going 2 b utter wastehellipplz possible mail this post to media mails like to TOI or NDTV or ET or anywhete possiblei amsure they will appreciate u r efforts and will publish themhellip

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Ducts December 23 2013 940 pm 940 PM

Nothing is going to improveIndia is a country where the top officials r oldhellipu can c our pmhellipeven with bsnl same thinghellipthat rk upadhay i think can even not operate his email id i think bcuz after sending so many email that man doesnt even have sense ofreplyinghellipuck u r company n sry not company actually u n ur corrupt teamhellipSaala samajhta nahi its nly our indiarsquos losshellipif u c ATampThellipDue 2 its QoS people dont even think to go for TshymobilehellipIndian government koh bhi samajtha nahi to appoint youngsters in such job by seeing what he actually knows n with gud marketting skillshellipWTF even after having pan india 3G lincense one would had taken advantage of it n make company to move forwardhellipRk upadhay u just take retirement u r mind age has no more ideas its time u r mind needs SANYAS

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Rishabh December 23 2013 1041 pm 1041 PM

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Akhil Mohan December 23 2013 913 pm 913 PM

My experienceFor the last two weeks there is no internet in my 3G connection It connects but no data transfer takes place Registered a complaint with the no 9400000198 an waited for their call for 1 week but no one called me and today i received amessage saying your complaint has been closedHow will a company like this ever make profit If govt tries to bail out BSNL i may even try to go to court to prevent that because public dont need to pay for their wrong doings and inefficency

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derik December 23 2013 843 pm 843 PM

BSNL IS THE BEST IN KERALA AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE THE MARKET LEADER VERY SOONhelliphellipI LOVE BSNLhelliphellip

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LShobha December 23 2013 812 pm 812 PM

I would like to comment on corruption Eradicating corruption should be TOP DOWN approach and not BOTTOM UP approach Corruption cannot be cleansed from lineman to CMD but the other way around BSNL is a governmentcompany and obviously it will be a reflection of how our government is being run ndash scam ridden ndash Coalgate 2G Maharashtra dam scandalCommonwealth games scandal Robert Vadra Scandal mining scandal etc etc As the sayinggoes ndash ldquoYathah Raja Thathah PrajardquoBSNL has its share of scams within ndash awarding of contracts by top management to Boston Consulting Group appointing brand ambassadors to Ms Preity Zinta Deepika Padukone without any tangible result Perhaps the biggest ofthem all is the BSNL CDMA services Crores of public money invested without any revenueAs for the employees it is better to offer VRS to all the DOT recruited employees and hand over the organisation to the BSNL recruited youngsters and make them more accountableFinally BSNL should continue to exist in the larger interests of the countryrsquos security The government can not allow the Mittals Ambanis Tatas and Birlas to pocket crores of rupees money to gift aeroplanes to their wives and celebrateglitzy and glamorous wedding anniversaries and build Antilias with helicopter landing pads

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joseph joy christopher December 23 2013 747 pm 747 PM

BSNL Lags in1)proper plans2)no permanent tariff some plan came within 2 weekrsquos it will be removed eg 12rs roaming pack3)bad customer service4) even using gprs packs is not allowed in tn circle on black out days even with pack it is chargable

Prorsquos1)core network in all arearsquos

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SAHIL December 23 2013 703 pm 703 PM

BSNL CAN NEVER AND WILL NEVER IMPROVE OR CHANGE BECAUSE ITS RUN BY CORRUPT CRONIES OF PRIVATE OPERATORS AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS WHOSE ONLY AGENDA IS TO DESTROY BSNLAND BENEFIT PRIVATE OPERSTORS BSNL IS ALREADY ANOTHER AIR INDIA IN MAKING ULTIMATELY BSNL LOSSES WILL BE FUNDED FROM INDIAN CONSUMERS AND TAX PAYERS HARD EARNEDMONEY BUT AFTER 2014 ELECTIONS MODI WILL CLEAN UP THESE CORRUPT PEOPLE AND BSNL WILL IMPROVE

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Panditji December 23 2013 621 pm 621 PM

It is completely true that BSNL does not care its customers I surrendered a BSNL land line connection in Muzaffarpur Bihar only because of its employees After many request to its concern officials (even to higher official BSNLMuzaffarpur) no proper step was taken for a long period but every bishymonth i was served with a suitable bill and finally i unwillingly surrendered the connection This is what BSNL officials care its customers If this situation remainscontinued BSNL will never go in profit

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Satheesh December 23 2013 606 pm 606 PM

Myself is a BSNL employee I think the real problem lies with the TOP management Top level management is still DOT staff and deputation to BSNL Most of them are least bothered about the future of the Company and they are onlyburocrats and no professionalism which is the need of the hour They are not at all accountable for their activities and not ready to accept the feedback given by other stake holders such as employees franchisees etc Only proffessionalmanagement can rescue the organisation

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js December 23 2013 833 pm 833 PM

The pathetic state of the BSNL is purely because of the very bad attitude of the employees Employees are only interested in salary hike for every pay commission and spend least time in office If you want to see the attitude of theemployees you should go to an exchange or customer care center As a BSNL employee did you recommend any of your family or relatives to use BSNL product Do you know all details of BSNL products provided in your circleFirst BSNL employee should confidently market the product with their friends and relatives and they are the prime source of brand building They will blame BSNL then how they will be able to build the brand 2lakhs employeesif they try their best then BSNL can be profitable within 6months Customers need BSNL service but if BSNL can reach customers then people will always opt for it BSNL has the best tariff plans best coverage and no hiddencharges So only attitude of the employees should change not higher officials It is just an excuse to runaway from responsibilities by blaming higher officials This is what always BSNL employees union do

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Akhil Mohan December 23 2013 915 pm 915 PM

No body wants BSNL to improve Please shutdownhellip

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js December 24 2013 954 am 954 AM

AkhilBefore commenting on this you should know India first 90 percentage of mobile users do not want 3G or 4G or any data use They use mobile only to contact near and dear ones BSNL is the only service provider whoprovided service in rural areas small panchayats naxal affected areas and even Jammu and Kashmir where our soldiers are totally depending on BSNL network to contact their near and dear ones Pvt providers only look atprofit and even betray nation for the sake of money All defence orgs can only depend on BSNL and not any other service provider In UK customers did an agitation against vodafone on not paying the tax But in Indiacustomers will get more attracted by just the brand name and since it is a foreign operator and even though they do all tax frauds

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SS December 24 2013 1131 am 1131 AM

I still believe that vodafone tax case is completely non sense When vodafone acquired hutch there was no such law to tax transactions between companies incorporated outside india (the same supreme court ruled)Now they changed law to extract money by hook or by crook Is this a way

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krishna December 23 2013 516 pm 516 PM

Sometimes the strength becomes weakness The same is happening in BSNL ie Excess staff (Comparing with Private operators) is one of the reason for loss The management should take some bold decisions like giving VRSminimising retirement age from 60 to 58 (as major CPSU had the retirement age as 58)

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Chandra Sekhar Mandal December 23 2013 430 pm 430 PM

Previously i was using BSNL because it was giving 8 GB 2G [although i was getting 3G speed every time i recharged on my sim] data for just Rs219 for 30 days But after they unified 2G and 3G packs i did no recharge on that BSNL

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sim and its validity is also over I was a BSNL customer just because data purposeBSNL GO TO HELLhellip

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id December 23 2013 826 pm 826 PM

still its cheaper than others tariff

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deril December 23 2013 851 pm 851 PM

poor

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BatMAn December 23 2013 430 pm 430 PM

The funniest thing i have noticed isWhen ever Electricity in my area is down the same timethe BSNL network signal will be zero after a few minutes signal will be restored(Even if Electricity is Restored or not)i think they are have to start the DG Manuallyor No proper UPShellipif we are in a call the call will be doped Bsnl Karnataka Circle

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Rama December 23 2013 332 pm 332 PM

SaurabhHow did you know that BSNL has given out contract to expand netwrok in north indiaif you have any other source than tt and economic times would you please share it

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SS December 23 2013 322 pm 322 PM

This isnrsquot a new news This was expected and it happened Thanks to the worst management of bsnl In my circle up east there are fairly large no Of customers but ironically only 42 are active as per trairsquos report On the other handvodafone has 9970 active users and its 2g services are superior among all here My father uses bsnl only for 151shy400 mins tariff and would surely dump it if they ditch that scheme

Data services are worst than hell in bsnl For 20 days of month 2g data remains down and 3g goes down many times a day

Interconnectivity problems in bsnl are not uncommon Last time they blocked calls to vodafone for 2 months and only bsnl customers suffered I use airtel in delhi and its awesome in quality of service No single issue to complain aboutIn up east i use idea because of its robust 3g network all over the state Bsnl must to learn from them

But bsnl in far more superior than tata docomo reliance gsm aircel Lets hope that they improve

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Adil December 23 2013 950 pm 950 PM

ss i always use to agree to you but this time in climax i deny to your comment bsnl is worst than all operator whether it is docomo aircel reliance in fact uninor is far better than bsnlhellipthat is why uninor is making positive cashflow where as bsnl dying

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Aam Admi December 23 2013 221 pm 221 PM

ldquo8 Shut down loss making telephone exchanges or the ones which bring less revenue ndash many people opt for landline just due to broadband benefits through such exchanges (mainly rural) 3G data cards at special prices could beencouraged at such placesrdquo

As you already know 3G data cards are not a substitute to wired broadband I pay around 1000 INR for a broadband connection while living in a rural area Irsquom ready to pay more if BSNL can offer a 1 Mbps unlimited without FUPplan I keep my line only for broadband(a lot of people)

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Chethan S December 23 2013 713 pm 713 PM

Though I enjoy good quality Beam Fiber connection here in Hyderabad my familyrsquos situation is like yours back in my home town Our home falls in a BSNL Rural exchangersquos limits There particularly in the rainy season due tothunderstorms BSNL officials power off the telephone exchange during nights and even during weekends as an anticipatory measure depriving us of broadband connectivity Having a night unlimited connection we find itextremely the difficult to use internet within data usage limits As you said 3G data card is certainly not an alternative to wired broadband but if service is not good 3G at special rates would be welcome

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Tharun George December 23 2013 153 pm 153 PM

The only reason I am on BSNL is for cheap 3G and good 2G coverage All other things of BSNL are worst Call rates are not that low 2G internet is pathetic cannot even open google It takes 45min to get connected to customer careNetwork busy low quality sound

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prithvi December 23 2013 336 pm 336 PM

Exactly +1 BSNL

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Sugu December 23 2013 835 pm 835 PM

Tharun Well thatrsquos really surprising coz I have never faced such situation once when i had a problem ie Rs5 being deducted every week for no reason I went to their Thirunakkara Office and complained 2 days later Ireceived an SMS saying that my issue had been solved and even refunded me About the tariff in my knowledge it is providing cheapest base tariff among the operators i know I may be wrong and about 2G speed i always geta speed above 10kBshere is my speed test 2G httpwwwspeedtestnetmyshyresulta674883594

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Tharun George December 24 2013 827 am 827 AM

BSNL never deducted nay of my money As far as tariff go it is as high as private Most plans are 15ps and only mithram plan has 13ps STV are also costly

10KBs is very very low Your ping is very bad PING 903 ms Try opening gmail with it I have tested all operators 2G speed in Kerala Here are the resultDocomoshy 236kbpsAircelshy 225kbps (Shutdown)Relianceshy 225kbpsIdea ndash 170kbpsVodafone ndash 140kbpsAirtel ndash 100kbpsBSNL ndash 100kbps

For 3G BSNL has speed between 1shy2mbps But Idea 3G gives 6mbps at most time I use Reliance for 2G internet and calling Rs 74 STV gives 1p2sec for 6 months Lowest tariff in India

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Tharun George December 24 2013 830 am 830 AM

By the way you went to Kottayam office to get Rs 5 back Once I had gone there to pay Rs 4 bill for landline They laughed at me and asked how much Bus fare I spend to get there

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sugu December 24 2013 220 pm 220 PM

I said above 10kBs And it deducted Rs5 for 4 weeks I did not say anything about the refund but still they did and about 3G after 1030 I always get only about 50shy70kBs at home But at the morning it flies of to500shy700kBs when I went to my friendrsquos home at kumaranellor therersquos even H+ and I downloaded 270MB under 8 minuteshellipBus fare lol Vadavathoor to Old bus standhellip 6rshellip lolhellipBTW only 4rs landline what was your plan I hardly use tye landline the connection is only to avail broadband

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Tharun George December 24 2013 700 pm 700 PM

Vadavathoor We are so close yet meet online I am here just before Manarcad I most signal from Vadavathoor tower

I used to pay for 1 year for landline + broadband Some times exceed and they send Rs 2 or Rs 4 bills by postal Postage itself is Rs 4 for them

Disconnected BSNL broadband and landline this month I have Asianet broadband and Relaince 2G If you are using BSNL Broadband better switch to Asianet 4mbps broadband plans

I used to get 3G signal from BSNL tower at vadavathoor But 2 months ago BSNL added 3G to Rubber Board tower BTW I get signal for all private operators from Vadavathoor Does Docomo have tower atVadavathoor I am complaining for past 5 years to them about no coverage

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Sugu December 25 2013 527 pm 527 PM

Ah I think not Actually where does Docomo have towers My home is 2KM away from Thirunakkara Mostly I walk By the time I reach home BSNL will have switched through 3Towers (all 3G)while Docomo still remains connected to Thirunakkara I just get 1bar of range here and if I go to the hall no coverage Even when I went to my friends house 5km away its the same towerhellipIf you use android then download Network Signal Info it gives all details about that tower

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Riju VV December 23 2013 1029 pm 1029 PM

Bsnl kerala already introduced new customer care 9400000198No need to wait just call and enter your number They will call you back

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Tharun George December 24 2013 828 am 828 AM

You have to wait for there call back Which will take 30min ndash 1 hour

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Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 832 pm 832 PM

They never called me back for my complaint

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Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 830 pm 830 PM

Idea is now giving 1GB data for Rs 123 as a special offer

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Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 144 pm 144 PM

BSNL network is dead in Kaikhali near Kolkata Airport Area for last 10 daysIt seems that BSNL network is dead in so many places of Kolkata and they are not aware of BSNL fault and it forces people to use non BSNL SIMs

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Partha December 23 2013 842 pm 842 PM

Kaushik I live in Haldiram area near kaikhali and I did not face the problem you mentioned even for one day What was your exact location is it just beside Airport area

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Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 1054 pm 1054 PM

Partha There are few towers surrounding Kaikhali near your area haldiramHaldiram cell info display is KENDRIYA VIHAR (ABC) which is working fine and I get its signal from Outside my home but inside its stength is NIL Only I get cell info KAMALAPUR(ABC) ampDASODRONE(ABC) with 1 bar from balcony with fluctuation every 1 minuteBut the tower with KAIKHALI(ABC) cell info is not working from last 10 days which is the nearest tower from my house which is situated at Main road of VIP

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Kaushik Roy December 26 2013 1119 pm 1119 PM

Finally BSNL cell info (KAIKHALI ABC) tower started working from tonight after almost 12 days

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Saurabh December 23 2013 127 pm 127 PM

Since they gave tender for expansion in North zone I hope that their service will get better in Haryana and 3G will become available by October but none of the things happened Instead their 2G network which was worst before gettingmore and more worst here The indoor signal in my area in whatever house you check is nil to 1 bar only Those living near the BTS also face call drops You canrsquot call without voice cracking The network is just getting to bottom andno one to take care I have BSNL SIM which I recharge only once in a year with Rs34 validity extension to keep it alive as I keep SIM to check service quality

Whenever you call customer care the IVR says ldquoYour extimated hold time is 35 minutes 27 secrdquo and always over it Their CC is complete dumb and people at CSC are just illiterate who has only one answer for all the question ldquoBhaiyeh toh upar waley log decide karenge tabhi upgrade hoga Ab tumhara signal nahi aata toh hum kya karerdquo Their quality is sucking to the bottom at 60shy70 places Their VLR data shows that not even 10 lakh out of 30 lakh subscribersusing it Now you can understand why

Thanks to the private companies like Vodafone and Idea and Airtel also who have ubiquitous network and even after having 3shy4 times of BSNL subscribers their network works like charm and 99 uptime Thanks to Idea for providing3G to city towns villages and everywhere I went it was there Today I donrsquot have a single contact which is of BSNL and those I have are ported out to AVoId only

Videocon has started expansion and now have more active customers than BSNL in Haryana and soon they will have mre than that of Tata and Reliance Their is a limit to stupidity and BSNLhad crossed it since it started The conditionhere is even worst then what it was in 2004 It seems that BSNL is handling 500 customers per tower here which is chocking network all the day Few weeks back their network kept dead for 3 days So those who are on bsnl are losingeverything

I hope they donrsquot launch 3G in towns as their 2G signal is 1 bar on 1800 MHz What it will be on 2100 MHz 3G bandhellip They should save money and never launch 3G in towns in Haryana A slap to BSNL face from me

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John Thomas December 23 2013 116 pm 116 PM

What ever the writer suggested will never been going to implement I am been very long investigating BSNL policies and methodsi found that bsnl is administered by very corrupted ones Inefficient officers are getting on the top The

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main reason why people donrsquot choose bsnl is thateven though if there is a tower nearby to ones homeit is hard to find signal inside their home Government still holds bsnl nothing for but to maintain a security level in communicationof strategic important ones

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Ramesh Darji December 23 2013 1140 am 1140 AM

Dear Sanjay I want address issue of tata docomo not BSNL BSNL is govt company and some can understand but what happen to TataIn gujarat they have 3G but surprisingly they stop expanding 3G coverage Worst ever they switch off many sites in rural areas and highways In gujarat late entrant Uninor and videocon even doing better than tataIts worst ever they offers and schemes Their offer is changing so fast that customer lost trust on themStill they are riding on photon+ in maharastra and mumbai but their time is now over They are not realising adoption of 3G and still their data package is much higherOn the other hand realince and other 3G operator providing much cheaper 3G 156 now for realince 3G 299 for 2GB for MTNL and others are offering goodReliance Joi will launch service in short period and I think BSNL and other private operator who is not much serious about customer choice will be finished

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jz December 23 2013 1126 am 1126 AM

bsnl is cheap and best but didnrsquot know how to encash it

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Vamsi December 30 2013 1009 am 1009 AM

Hi frnd hellipthx for the article and my view was BSNL has a robust network to serve india better than any private company but The main and only obstacle was their employs hellipthe higher authority should initiate necessary steps todeploy corporate style to bsnlhellipbecz we all know that working hours of bsnl employs are not up to the mark so make them(Employes) work and serve better

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1 Concentrate on Enterprise segment ndash happy enterprise customers can bring in big revenues BSNL has necessary capabilities to provide endshytoshyend enterprise solutions in the form of attractive tier wise offerings (small mid large verylarge segments) Primary enterprise need is dedicated fullshytime support which any telecom service provider must provide

2 While increasing tariffs is an option attractive tariffs are the one which makes the difference ndash this is good for individual customers3 Concentrate on improving data network ndash BSNL already has the base ingredient lowest data tariffs in industry With the spurt in smartphones and tablets 3G coverage is becoming more and more important4 Convenience factor for customers

1 BSNL probably has the lowest density of retailer network ndash this makes it increasingly difficult to get a topshyuprecharge done On the other hand recharges for private operators can be done at almost every corner shop Thisdemand supply gap and one poor experience will make a person not to chooserecommend BSNL So dealerfranchisee network must be strengthened

2 SMS based special benefits activation While similar benefits are available across circles in terms of tariffs SMSUSSD based activation is available only in handful of circles Karnataka and Kerala allow almost every STVactivation by SMS while AP and Maharashtra allow minimal Uniformity all over is important

3 PAN India tariff rollouts do not happen on the same day even after announcement by Corporate office Circle websites fail to notify announcements on time This is where a centralized single website can benefit4 Recently BSNL announced the go green initiative ndash despite of registering for the facility I got a print bill this month Such fails are not desirable

5 Cell towers can be powered by renewable sources of energy thus reducing dependency on electricity and hence cutting down power bills6 Mounting dues must be brought down ndash this alone can bring in crores to BSNL7 Introduce a BSNL Wallet ndash like Airtel money8 Shut down loss making telephone exchanges or the ones which bring less revenue ndash many people opt for landline just due to broadband benefits through such exchanges (mainly rural) 3G data cards at special prices could be encouraged

at such places9 Introduce certificate courses for interested at competitive prices As of now BSNL is providing internship opportunities to technology students

From our readers responses at different times we believe they are still ready to accept BSNL as their preferred service provider Good luck BSNL for the turnaround As a reader what you think Do you have any suggestion that can makeBSNL back in track do let us know via comments

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Juneja shy Nagpur January 3 2015 532 pm 532 PM

Corruption is the root cause of all the evils of the PSU Every officer right from Group C upto CMD are totally corruptRight from procurement of Equipment and stores by Corporate office higher officers till the delivery of services tothe door steps of customers there is totally corruption due which non standard Equipments and stores are used and services are also degradedThere is no right HR policy to properly motivate the staffs and executives and there alsocorruption plays a disaster role and there is no respect for morale and sincere officers of the PSUIf a CBI raid is conducted in all the top brasses in HR and MM department of the BSNL Corporate office then definitely a bulk no ofofficers can be caught to be possessing disproportionate assets in their ketty

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SS June 3 2014 1249 pm 1249 PM

If you have an international roaming sim then you follow the steps (if you hadnrsquot)shy

go to sim toolkit(celloneBSNL Mobile)gtgtnetworkgtgtinternationalgtgtcellone partner

Restart device and if no signal select network manually

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ER Raghvendra ( JTO shyBSNL north ) May 19 2014 1203 pm 1203 PM

Guys everything amp everyone are not perfect Secondly u guys are quiet True in ur side hellip But There are many flaws but main cause which I see daily are 1) it is only amp only Engineers of BSNL who are working hard irrespective of days hrs We get deadlines designing cost cutting applying field work etc2) Everyone in Bsnl is dependant on us Juniors donrsquot listen to us as why wud they coz they get regular income amp not afraid infact aged juniors try to shout on us being seniors3) We have notified seniors many times regarding flaws but they raise there hands amp donrsquot even provide us with proper resources quality amp force us to do magic

So on whole it is basically lack of surveillance on employees especially field one amp ya junior employees are mannerless I wud say

~ a Electrical Engineer working in BSNL north

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hap May 12 2014 852 pm 852 PM

1 proper mgmt of staffs donrsquot promote ministerial staff like clerks to technical posts because they know nothing compared to the urban consumers Also try to decrease the number of ministerial staffs by reducing the number of newjobs2Try to tell the linemen donrsquot demand bribes3 Improve marketing strategy Promote evdo services It is the only true unlimited wireless internet connection4 Give new landline connections only if they are subscribing for broad band connection

5 Last but the most important one Go to supreme court against the Intra Circle Roaming Agreement for 3G It is purely unethical to allow 3G sharing after auctioning pan India spectrum for a huge price The govt may not be interestedin this (we all know the reason)

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BANOTHU SAKRU April 17 2014 227 pm 227 PM

Its very nice discussion If all the employees of BSNL work together for our vision we can get success

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prathap April 5 2014 1130 pm 1130 PM

not plans for farmers i mean agriculture peoples major population of india nearly 50 percent in agriculture mainly now a days agriculture is also need of lack of communication

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Pravat Kumar Das February 28 2014 350 pm 350 PM

Website of BSNL Circle looks like outdated and rejected site Same position of SSA Intranet and also BSNL Employees Unions siteCorruption Grass root employees are temporary or contractual they are getting very marginal payment Example When a Permanent Line Man getting payment Rs 20000 to 35000 same work done by a contractual worker in 1750 to

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2500 Data Entry Operator getting payment 2000 to 2500 and like this a Broadband maintenance work done in 1000 to 2200 Whereas State Govt paid there worker Watchman or Peon Rs 4500 Data Entry Operatorshy Rs 5200 to 8000Technical worker 7500 to 9500 Today in this payment can a person maintain his family and can give his child education Corruption is only for their survival Now days if you find minimum 70 connection of BSNL Land Linesubscriber are getting connection giving extra moneyNext thing is marketing DSA (Direct Sales Agent) appointed for Marketing But in BSNL there are no auto mechanism to give payment no rewards for performance and no promotion to experience person like other organization (LICInsurance and Finance Sector etc) DSAs are not getting payment properly Even 1 year to 2 year payment pending Officers are showing that they are saving BSNL money by breaking DSAs payment To pass a Bill required so manysignatures Every signature creates corruption Last 2 to 3 year it develops gradually There are no rewards for better work When a DSA do better that time Officer Cutoff his bill 20 30 40 and even 50 according to better workIn such a situation how can marketing developUDAAN CFA Marketing wing of BSNL doing nothing only outdated Data entry of Leads Officer and worker engaged in wing expenditure huge amount in this head They are entering data which is already settled If you see data 80to 90 data entered are outdated Actually Project Udaan is very good mechanism but nobody utilized it from top to bottom it is work only Pen and Paper Top Level Officer and Management are neglecting in their duty They are notwatching work only wastage money of BSNL getting payments BSNL give SMS ldquo BSNL in your door steprdquo when a customer giving SMS for a LandLine or Broadband that go to cold store for 2 to 3 months Within this periodcustomer coming to Exchange or office and solving problem in their ways After 2 to 3 month SMS forwarded to field unit SA(Sales Associate) I think 60 of Udaan SA (Sales Associate) not using their ID they have no computerknowledge this work done by STL (Sales Team Leader)

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Rudresha January 12 2014 1029 pm 1029 PM

HiFriendsBSNL having some weakness is follows1) Cheif managing director to group shyD employ counting there days for super annuation2) all employs are high paid for there work3) almost all the time BSNL work is non productive4) even after 13 years BSNLstill now not having clear and futuristic HR policy5) BSNL Must practice preventive and protective maintenance for quality serviceoveral Bsnl realy doing good with all demerits

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ajay January 12 2014 822 am 822 AM

I think its issue should be resolved They should opt or leave bsnl Second is lack of corporate culture Third is group c amp d unions which only do vote politics over services

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subham January 11 2014 645 pm 645 PM

USSD based services activation is one of the importantswhich BSNL lacks most

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Kaushik Roy January 9 2014 1005 pm 1005 PM

BSNL started online EshyAUCTION of its 75 premium numbers for all circlesThe prices vary from 5000 to 25000A little way of some earning from the loss making GIANT

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will January 3 2014 940 pm 940 PM

Well staff thinks its a goverment run company so they take everyting for granted i thnk bsnl should be pravatised now

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Ramesh dhaker kanera gata January 2 2014 543 pm 543 PM

Bsnl the best network

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aravind January 2 2014 1224 am 1224 AM

BSNL is state owned company ie peoplersquos telecom companyOthers are private profit making companiesIf BSNL is not in market then the call rate would be increasing day by dayas in the case of petroleum industryPrivate Telecom companies are slowly and silently increasing their tariffsSo support and stay with BSNL as we are all loyal indian citizens

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Bandhan Preet Singh January 22 2014 1156 pm 1156 PM

very right aravind

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Pravin Prashant December 30 2013 439 pm 439 PM

Here i am also facing the same problem which you are facing From some days the BSNL network is very poor and we are unable to talk frequently Voice breaks are a common matter with BSNL network The customer care executivesare not so friendly like other mobile operators The most bizarre fact of BSNL is its server down Whenever you call to a customer care executive they are providing the same answer server down please call later It is strongly advisedBSNL to take care of its intentional customers to make them happy

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Tarun December 30 2013 642 pm 642 PM

Pravin its not only you every BSNL customer is facing the same issue

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BP Singh December 30 2013 1013 pm 1013 PM

Pravin you must book complaint online and highlight how in ur Area BSNL is not working wellAs a good customer you must raise the matter to highest authority It may make some one happy as u said

BSNL Public Grievance Portal for any kind of complaintshymisbsnlcoinpgsinternetpgwebregnasp

Government Department Related Complaintsshypgportalgovin

RTI Onlineshyrtionlinegovin

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satyajit saikia December 30 2013 430 pm 430 PM

According to me at first the low level employees from casual worker should be trained about the services tariffs etc flawlessly and why our services better than other private operators and also trained them why and how to convince

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the customer For doing this the monetary rewards should be given to them Also some monitory power should be given to TTArsquos as they are running almost every exchanges and low level employees directly connected to them

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kalyankar December 29 2013 932 pm 932 PM

dear chetan thanks for the article very good onehelliphelliphelliphellipthe best point in the article u never tried to degrade bsnl by comparing bsnl with private operatorshellipwho r in the market just to earn money helliphelliphelliphellipand to all those who r withbsnl thanks for ur support becoz of the customers like u bsnl is able to survive against all oddshellipUPA is giving bail out to private firms but it is not willing to bailout the govt owned bsnlhelliphelliphelliphellip+BSNL is very essential to be in the market to prevent the atrocities of private operatorshelliphelliphellipif BSNL is not there then we would have charged even for incoming and call rates might have gone up upto rs 10shyper minutehelliphelliphelliphellipat lastBmdashshyBESTSmdashshySPOKENNmdashshyNATIONALLmdashshyLANGUAGE

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Kiran December 29 2013 309 pm 309 PM

I agree with the above suggestions In my view some practical things that can be done like try to attract the young graduates for marketing for that some dedicated marketing wing should exist Improve the customer satisfaction level bypoliteness and caring for the customers Utilising the infrastructure including training centers for commercial purpose Cost cutting measures to be taken in maintenance

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Indian December 28 2013 733 pm 733 PM

I suggest you come to reality 9999 of ppl who use BSNL donrsquot know approaching social media So any spend by BSNL on social media is waste of money The main pblem is their lazy old employees Their overpaid salaries for thework they r doing is main reason for BSNL loses

Once in bnglr I tried to shift my BB connection when I changed room amp I had to go pillar to post between two BSNL exchanges amp even after 15 days the connection didnrsquot got transference but a single call to a private BB every gotdone So itrsquos mainly their lazy employees

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G SUMANTH KUMAR TTA BSNL MACHILIPATNAM December 27 2013 1115 pm 1115 PM

If BSNL Management implements proper transfer policy then things will change almost And good quality infrastructure should be provided for better results In staff side BSNL is paying Rs 50000shy approximately for the clerical dutiesin the organization in these days also even its implementing paper less concept Management should remove the unproductive staff like watchman s also BSNL paying Rs 40000shy per month

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KALAYAN December 29 2013 934 pm 934 PM

HI SUMANTH I GUESS THIS IS NOT THE PLATFORM TO DISCUSS SUCH ISSUES BEING AN EMPLOYEEE OF BSNL

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kaushal singla December 27 2013 1022 am 1022 AM

in bsnl there should be accountability of every employee for their workbsnl employee doing great work now but if there is no backup at bts then a emplyee cant do anythingif we ask for battery cells there is no cells if we ask for battery protection unit the answer is novery poor maintenance of bts power plant and

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rahul December 27 2013 928 am 928 AM

bsnl plan validity scheme should change out it gives only 6 month validity to compete than others private companies gives near bout 3 years validity and after time goes on validity automatically increased but in bsnl validity game islike a supari killer who contract for a money and have a crime just like bsnl also make compulsion of validity recharge to keep active also sound quality of a call is bull shit and several drawbacks must removed

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Rushabh December 26 2013 951 am 951 AM

I mailed this to CMD mailA reply came from them saying lsquoThankyou for your feedbackWe are in a position of removing conjunction state by statehellipwe have cleared nearly 99 conjunction in maharashtrahellipnow we are making gujrat and go to differentstatesWe will be completing all states by July 14helliprsquo

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MRC Xavier December 26 2013 941 am 941 AM

This is a Wonderful article to motivate the BSNL employees right from CMD to The Group D But how many of them might have read this article to understand the fact I am also an employee of this great company People like me tryour best to convey this kind of informations to our own fellow employees

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Nitin Koirala December 26 2013 151 am 151 AM

Hi this is Nitin Koirala and i am using Blackberry 8520 if I will activate any BB plan it will work automatical or need Internet setting please reply me on my eshymail Id Thank Nitin koirala

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sourabh agrawal December 26 2013 1019 am 1019 AM

For Blackberry 8520 handset you need to recharge only blackberry plan For prepaid this voucher will be in 410 +shy 5 range After recharging with blackberry voucher 1st time service will be start in 2 hrs automatically

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Ankit Negi December 26 2013 137 am 137 AM

very nice analysis by you sir i agree with you

I want to add why BSNL is best

1) Best 3G speed as I get around 900KBps (its kilobytes not kilobits) speed in my town Dehradun where other operators like Airtel gives 300KBps and Idea gives 300KBps while TATA DOCOMO gives aroung 500KBps speed

2) Not a single paisa is wrongly deduced from my balance in last 6 years

In my dehradun (Uttarakhand) the biggest problem with BSNL is 1) Very Very poor customer support if you get any problem then there is no way for you other than go to BSNL main head office and submit your handwritten complain2)Sometimes 3G services do not run in some part of town3) BSNL Uttaranchal website does not remain updated on time

Sir I think curruption is the biggest problem with BSNL Higher authorities of BSNL are highly curropt they choose for customer care services to those companies who gave them very high commision below the table they gave portal maintainence services to those companies who gave themagain very high commisionThis is the main reason of very poor service of BSNL

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Sayantan(Kolkata) December 26 2013 1213 am 1213 AM

I am a die hearted fan of Airtrl but I really feel sad for BSNL as it is sinking slowly and graduallyEverytime when I visit a BSNL exchange I see that its filled with some people from the 50s and 40s who dosent know even T oftechnology and my God their behaviourSo RUDEI dont understand what do these grandfathers think of themselvesWhereas look at the employees of the private operatorsSo smartThey are paid much less than BSNL but still theydont behave rudelySo obviously why wont people prefer BSNLPeople say that BSNL is good and its network is present in the Siachen and Villiages but how many times are we normal people visiting Siachen and villagesIt all thatmatters is the service that we get from them when we at our home location and in my home locationits better to forget that there is a company called BSNL

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P MANOJ December 26 2013 551 pm 551 PM

Dear Mr Sayantan please remember that the rates of other operators including that of Airtel is not increasing only because BSNL is there in the field

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Rajesh May 24 2014 754 pm 754 PM

I accept with you sayantan I also faced similar problem I was attracted by the network availabilty and plans of bsnl and planned to port The first word i got from my colleague is not to go bsnl as it has the worst customer serviceI was working in a MNC and no one here has bsnl connection except me as we are having very good offers from airtel and better connectivity For porting my no to BSNL i went to the bsnl office and people there are behavingreally rude there attitude is like if you want buy otherwise leave I have been to airtel office and people are behaving really good they are asking my requirement and suggesting plan accordingly I am interested in taking postpaidconnection but consoled myself not to go after seeing their behaviour They are not even ready to tell what offers they are having I finally got my sim after visitng there 5 shy6 times which got fortunately activated I Checked theplan in internet as I have office network and activated plans relavant to me Now i am facing problem with my network connection I am in the hot of the bangalore city Koramangala and i am not having proper 3g connection Itried to reach customer care and when they pick they are simply disconnecting it They are not even ready to wait for us to say hello Now i am repenting my move I submitted my complaint online but not sure whether i will getresponse I planned to wait for some time otherwise planning to move to airtel as spending few bucks extra is better than having no connectivity

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N GUPTA (ANDHRA PRADESH) December 25 2013 909 pm 909 PM

Bsnl making loses because of UPA ndash I and II wrong decisions In 2005 and then it cancelled many expansion plans of bsnl So with less towers i canrsquot server huge customers so from last several years bsnl customers are facing problemsWith this reasons many people reluctant to use BSNL service After Upadhya took charge as a CMD they started expansion this year they are adding 147 millions cell lines with help ZTE All these ZTE towers supports 2G 3G 4GNow upadhaya planing to adopt managed network model In this model like nokia or ericsson or alcatelshylucent take care of bsnl network for ten years If they find any congestation in any area they install new tower immediately Inpresent model it canrsquot start new towers immediately And bsnl converting its network switches from TDM to NGN which is very advanced and capable to serve more customers With TDM technology there is much wastage of networkWith NGN technology they can start IPTV Video on Demand etc So Bsnl has to start new services like IPTV Video on demand etc With these service it can earn more revenue Apart from these first BSNL employees fight with UPAgovt if it stop managed model network expansion plans not for their Salaries or DArsquos or Travel charges

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karthik December 25 2013 632 pm 632 PM

recruit new young guys talented is marketing hr etc give vrs for those willing to go because those cannot bring any +impact to bsnl

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Aslam December 25 2013 518 pm 518 PM

BSNL MAKING HUGE LOSSES BECAYSE ITS RUN BY CORRUPT OFFICIALS WORKING IN INTERESTS OF PRIVATE OPERATORS ONLY MODI CAN SAVE BSNL AND INDIA

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XYZ December 25 2013 732 pm 732 PM

modi coruptless no one is corupless in politics

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susfb December 25 2013 457 pm 457 PM

Foremost thing is that BSNL is a service provider and not a business group established for making profit Employees are recruited for maintaining the telecom services and not for marketing Leave these employees for technicalmaintenance form separate marketing wing with young talented guys with marketing aptitude

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Hariharan A December 25 2013 443 pm 443 PM

I appreciate your analasis and suggestion for improvement of bsnl to get profitI have aleady sent my views through my mailBy adopting this Ibelieve bsnl will get profit within 21 monthsshy3 months for consideration of plan and 18months for execute the planBsnl existence is very essential not only for safety of our country but also arrest private operators earning more money from customers for examble we know that they charged for incoming and out goingcalls with high rate before we enter the cell businessThanking you sirHariharan A SrtoaBsnl employee Nagercoil division Tamil nadu Circle

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pradeep December 26 2013 1056 pm 1056 PM

fully agreed with u sirndash pradeepcommon man

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Hariharan A December 25 2013 325 pm 325 PM

The retirment age of the bsnl officials may be reduced from 60 to 58yearswhich will decrease the salary expenditure to a certain extentYoung energetic and enthusiastic engineering graduates may be recruited as apprentice trainees fortwo years to compete with other operators in the fast developing technology after that they may be prefered for regular post Periodically inspectio and surprise check up should be conducted by the officerswhich will help theimprovement of serviceAll nationalisedscheduled banks should be approached for opening ATM centers in BSNL officesas minimum 30 centre in each districtby this we can crores of rupees as profitAlso shopping complex may be constructed in BSNLvacant land by availing bank loan taking advance amount from prospective customers for offering the same for rentPunctuality in duty should be inculcated among staff from top to bottom by introducing card punching which is connected with salary packageThe above practice will yield fruitfull resultIncentiveHonararium payment may be made by means of Top up cards intead of cash paymentsBy fixing a target date for disposal all idle and obsolute storesthe unserviceable stores should be disposed offVacant buildings and BSNL quarters may be given rent for GovtSemi GovtPSU whereever possibleThe tariff benefits and offers should resemble to private operatorsThen only BSNL will survivegtProcedures for international roaming should be simplified like private operatorsPrepaid plans may be rationalisegttop ups and planvalidity voucher may be merged togetherVRS to employees by getting loan from bank is not inteligable

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KOTESWARARAONERELLA December 25 2013 1018 am 1018 AM

MrChetan has very correctly and dispassionately analysed the plus and minuses of BSNLAs a retired senior officer of DOTBSNL I fully agree with MrChetanBasically the staff 100 lines ratio is high in BSNL when compared withother private telcos who got very less staff for 100 lines and consequently the pay bill with pay revison commissions increase along with other central employees thereby major part goes to salariesThese staff were NOT RECRUITEDBY BSNL BUT CAME AS A LEGACY OF DOT and they have to be continued or given VRS with a GOOD GOLDEN HANDSHAKE FOR WHICH THE GOVTHAS TO FINANCE AROUND 10K cores which they are notreleasing2 The staff recruited in 1980s are RAW candidates with little education and they may not be able to express confidently in English with customers and at the most in local language also they have to learn speak polished language whichis to be imparted at Training centres3A few thousands Engineering graduates have been directly recruited as JTO (Junior Telecm Officer ) and TTAs (Telecom Technical Assistants) and these people are not being trained in HRD in the trainng centres to the desired extentthereby they are not being fully exploited4The DOT has to REFUND around 8000shy crores for the BWA spectrum returned back in 2011 and eventhough the GOM has recommened to refund in which FM and MOC are members yet the money is not yet givenIf given then the

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RED will become GREEN in the balance sheet5Supply of Instrumentscables jointing kitsdrop wires etc which are required for EXTERNAL PLANT MAINTENANCE AND DIRECTLY NEEDED FOR THE SUBSCRIBER are in poor supplyI am told they are keepingsometimes RECOVERED AND REPAIRED PHONE INSTRUMENTS TO NEW CUSTOMERS and this should be stopped to increase customer satisfaction6Govt while creating BSNL PSU in 2000 gave lot of promises that it will do all help and take care the needs of PSU but practically there is no such thing either in CASH OR KIND7Even for CAPEX and OPEX BSNL is struggling year after year and atleast the SPECTRUM CHARGES WHICH HAVE BEEN THE HIGHEST PAID BY BSNL shuold be refunded so that it will be on rails and run with full steam tocontinue public patronage which will not be allowed to be done by the private telcos who are waiting for the BSNL not to be a serious contestant against their interest

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Darshan December 25 2013 402 pm 402 PM

Ohh so its due to govthellip$shyiexcl| on the govt due to which bsnl going in red sheetshellip

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shekhar December 25 2013 908 am 908 AM

Make it private sell it Bharti Reilance anybody Free it from Red tapism ITS and Line man culture

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kalyankar December 29 2013 938 pm 938 PM

BOSS DONT WORRY WHEN BSNL IS SOLD TO PRIVATE FIRMS U WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE CALLS WITH PAISAShelliphelliphelliphellipBUT WITH BULK OF RUPEES REQUIRE TO MAKE AND RECIEVE CALLS

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sanjay April 10 2014 205 pm 205 PM

u r right sir

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sanjay April 10 2014 206 pm 206 PM

u r absolutely right kalyankarhellip

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Nazeer Ahmed December 25 2013 905 am 905 AM

The suggesstion given by MrS Chetan are good but Babus at top level of BSNL need changed in their mindset they are shirkers donot want any responsibility and only want handful of salary Other operators sit on the footpath and selltheir SIM card with a xerox machine copy your ID proof with the xerox machine and give cards Can this be done by the BSNL Babus The activation will be done within hours but in BSNL they ask so many question to issue SIMAddress proof apart from Driving licence or PAN card This is how BSNL is sinking

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Debabrata Dutta Kolkata December 25 2013 316 am 316 AM

For last one month missed call alert of BSNL Kolkata is not working on my numberhelliphellip any body facing the same problem has the missed call alert number 17010 been changed I have diverted to 17010 under not reachablecondition but its still not working in Kolkata Kindly reply helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

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Kaushik Roy December 25 2013 942 am 942 AM

yes for me also BSNL MCA is not working and I diverted to 17010

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Kaushik Roy December 24 2013 937 pm 937 PM

Majority people will not use BSNL as primary numbers since its network goes down on a regular basis and one can not rely on it 100 specially single SIM usersOnly for roamers and travellers BSNL is useful for its great coverage I have seen many places in rural areas only BSNL signal is available and no other operator even AshyVOshyID are not there In places like Kolkata people can rely onother network than BSNL But for rural places BSNL is a good optionI used BSNL as my secondary number but I switched off the number majority times when I am in Kolkata I use it only for roaming with plan 199 which gives 180 days roaming incoming free except DelhiMumbai and Jammu ampKashmir and believe me in roaming I did not face much problem with BSNL

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BP Singh December 24 2013 928 pm 928 PM

Links of websites for lodging your Compliant amp Grievances against BSNL and there by improving its work culture

httpmisbsnlcoinpgsinternetpgwebregnaspBefore lodging any complaint to Higher authority make sure that you have approached middle amp lower Mgmt Keep proofs of it

Government Department Related Complaintshttpwwwpgportalgovin

RTI Onlinehttpwwwrtionlinegovin

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sanjay April 10 2014 223 pm 223 PM

BP singhrsquo ji why BSNL is not giving Adrsquos like using mobile more is harmful to brainears as medically prooved while Landline is harmless please create a awareness of use of Landline

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vivek December 24 2013 609 pm 609 PM

The retailer of bsnl dorsquot know what is MNP and what is current tariff in bsnl Then how satishfy a customer that there tariff is best The main reason of bsnl to go in decreasing revenue is that the customer not attracted toward bsnlbecause they dorsquot know what is current scheme of BSNL If you go private shop and ask them for sim then they would not suggest for bsnl If you ask for bsnl then they told that call rate is costly you can not get recharge at each shopsound quality is not good and without asking they suggest you about scheme of private service provider What is reason that they not appreciate bsnl because bsnl not give sufficient share as private give Second thing is BSNL customercare If your balance deduced in wrong way and if you complain for it then they told you that I dorsquot have right to refund your money but they will never tell that I am trying to refund your money by telling appropriate authority Insteadthey give email id and told you that you can contact to appropriate authority by sending email If you told them please sir send me email address then they told sir I donrsquot have right send to sms if you contact that email id you willalways got permanently failure of email

So you can think how good customer care service of BSNL

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Arun K G December 24 2013 852 pm 852 PM

BSNL is giving 55 of MRP on every rechargeTOP up to retailers which is higher among all private operators

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mr rai December 24 2013 541 pm 541 PM

bsnl is run by corrupt babus and ministers hence it will always make huge loss and suck common man blood money

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Arun K G December 24 2013 854 pm 854 PM

Can you tell any goverment public enterprise which donrsquot have any ind of curreption

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AA December 24 2013 523 pm 523 PM

BSNL is the legacy of the govt they will neither abondone nor let it function it is a source of corruption I am sure BSNL will continue to survive for the selfish motivies of the babus

Unless QoS and accountability improves nothing else is possible the effective way to use bsnl is to use it as backup (secoundary) number Bsnl is not in the business race hence forget about drastic improvement The least you expectthe happier you are

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rahul December 24 2013 457 pm 457 PM

bsnl plan validity scheme should change out it gives only 6 month validity to compete than others private companies gives near bout 3 years validity and after time goes on validity automatically increased but in bsnl validity game islike a supari killer who contract for a money and have a crime just like bsnl also make compulsion of validity recharge to keep active also sound quality of a call is bull shit and several drawbacks must removed

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Umesh Singh December 24 2013 250 pm 250 PM

1) BSNL should be allowed to give political parties funding so that it can get tailored made policies like other private operator

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narapareddyp December 24 2013 237 pm 237 PM

In my district(anantapurap) BSNL have 3G network only in few areaswe want more 3G NETWORK

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D Rajendra December 24 2013 135 pm 135 PM

13 yrs have been passed after merger from DOT to BSNL(PSU) but no corporate work culture is devloped among the employeesThis may be one of the reasonsSo first step to make BSNL profitable to motive and wtrngthen themarketing culture

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RKrishna Rao December 24 2013 105 pm 105 PM

The employees and their unionsassociations of BSNL had continuously raised issues concerning the development and expansion of the services Much more to be done to improve the services The mindshyset of the employees needs to befurther improved to face the present challenges and for ensuring a better service to the customers They should always remember that they are important stakeshyholders of the company and at the service of the nation and its people Theyshould educate the employees to seek the support of people for strengthening BSNL

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Abhijit December 24 2013 1256 pm 1256 PM

BSNL can come in profit by charging heavily to its customers who are already paying more than the service quality

hellip just joking as that will end BSNL

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Ganesh December 24 2013 1245 pm 1245 PM

Hey very good pointsI agree with anti corruption measures I bought a new BSNL landline and the line men came 1 week late and they didnrsquot even give the line properly (no dial tone) and when I said thanks they were like give us some money (instead ofthanks) I gave them 20 rupees and they were like who wants those I just told them that I didnrsquot have any Then they went away leaving that 20 But even after 1 week there was no dial tone I then had to complaint to the officials aboutthe line and then they fixed it after 7 days

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Sunil December 24 2013 1228 pm 1228 PM

Infrastructure and network of BSNL are good in comparison to other operators But only the thing to advertise the product tariffand services through employee working in BSNL Employees are only waiting for perks salary hike andother benifits they do not know the latest product and tariff of BSNL Employee working at customer service centre use to watch the time for lunch and closing the officeSome employeesofficers who are not working and even notsigning in files are enjoying service but few dedicated employeesofficer who are working hard are facing inquiries served with charge sheets due to complaints made by fellow lazy employees and contractorsupplier who wish to earnfake money without working Strict discipline is must

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Dr GL Kamei December 24 2013 1210 pm 1210 PM

Chethan S I do appreciate your suggestion c per c My Dad too serving in BSNL in Gr A executive post who I rely everything but he mention about BSNL downfall for which I am worried I am working in a med Institute after my Postshygraduationand my brother would be a med graduate very soon My Brother refuse to use BSNL Product for its poor performances I would upload comments later on

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seema December 24 2013 1207 pm 1207 PM

Lack of strong customer support is ofcourse a reason for the poor performance of BSNL but as indians we should understand BSNLs social commitment it is not profit oriented alone unlike other private operatorsSo do support BSNL LONG LIVE BSNL

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kalyankar December 29 2013 942 pm 942 PM

THANKS SEMMA GOOD COMMENTShellip

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sanjay April 10 2014 214 pm 214 PM

u r right seema

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KK Chaudhary December 24 2013 1033 am 1033 AM

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Condition of BSNL is like Nai in Thakurrsquos Barat

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Vishal Jaiswal December 24 2013 906 am 906 AM

I agree with ur views MrKumar but to cut the losses some decisons in a balanced manner has to taken like VRS for 50+ or 55+ employes to reduce no of employees Use of private agencies to market their product etc etc For a PSUprofit generation is never a motive but generating such a huge loss is also not acceptable

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krishan kumar December 24 2013 234 pm 234 PM

Vishal Jaiswal Can anyone think why BSNL in loss not because it can not make profit

VRS can reduce 50 salary expenditure of BSNL which is about 7700 Cr But giving VRS is like rdquo throw your parents out of your home because they are aged and not capable to contribute as much as they had contributed intheir time for the homerdquo

If BSNL Headed by ambani or others they can throw them even profit was reduced

BSNL is going to install GSM BTS naxalite area for our Defence forces not for profit BSNL know that to run GSM BTS in naxalite area is very difficult and incurred huge expenditure

BSNL going to ring connectivity to East area where revenue is in few crores not for profit but for the people of the country

It all depends on us rdquo If we want BSNL to live who act for the country peoplerdquoIndian Politician doing their best effort to sell BSNL to fill their pockets

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kmalakondaiah December 24 2013 838 am 838 AM

sir i appreciate your analasis and suggestions for improvementi am adding following points ror reaching profits1) attituderespectfriendly atmospherepatience listiningcaringimportancehelping naturepositive approachgood bodylanguage towards custmers is very very very essentials and invitableBSNL is now improving stage when comparedto PampT and DOT but not reached 100 to reach 100 behaviour traing and counselling is required to BSNL employees2) next quality of service shy borodband modemstelephone instrumentsdropwire etc topquality is to be choosen instead of poor qualitythe PampT and DOT slogan lowest price is to be forgotten and high quality is to be kept in mind whileprocuring stores3)maintinance of BTS(cell towers)shy is to be improved by provisionmaintainnig generatorsbattery sets 4)attending brodband complints on top priority5)the average age of bsnl employee is 50 yrsso the existing young jtorsquos and ttas clerksare to be posted in custmer service centers and cell towers maintinaceOr by hiring youngsters between 18shy25 years the 5 lakh employees come down to 25 lakhs now it will comedown to 2 lakhs by 2015BSNL existance is very much essential for the safety our country and to arrest private operators earning money from custemersfor example when the introduction of mobiles by private operators you know they charged for incoming andoutgoing calls at very very high rateswhen BSNL allowed to start mobiles they tariff come down and all the custmers were benifitedfinally one common problem facing by all the custemers from all the telecom operatots is shy some amount is deducting without knowledgeconsent of custemers by means of content providers servicesvalue added servicesall custemersare suffering and bitterly complining on this cheating processThis is highly objectionable and against to indian constitutionso i request all the custemers and eminent people to take all stps to arrest this cheatingi specially requestsupreme court lawers to takeup this issue and stop this cheating

kmalakondaiahBSNL employeevisakhapatnam andhrapradesh

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DrSrinagesh Poduri June 3 2014 1050 am 1050 AM

Dear Malakondaiah garu I am now at Australia If you remember I met you last month I am from Bhimili I purchased a postpaid connection with International Roaming after reaching here when I tried to activate it says thatthe SIM card registration failed Could you please check if the card has been activated for international roaming Thank you

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krishan kumar December 24 2013 1247 am 1247 AM

I want to share some point about BSNL

1 BSNL is feeding 254 Lakh family in india where as other private operator having 5 to 10 of this 70 employees are more than 50+ can they exist in other telecom company2 BSNL still running Landline services in rural areas and facing a loss of 10000 Cr per year where no other operate even think to go in dream3 BSNL still running more than 1000 exchanges where monthly revenue is about 5000 to 6000 but bill of electricity and security in about one lakh per month4 BSNL is giving broadband services in thousands of rural exchange where other operator not even ready to edge network5 In my district BSNL have 3G network in all taluka where only few operator have 3G network in district only I am living in city where Asia largest refinery exist6 Can you imagine the tariff rates AirtelVodafone and Idea If BSNL not in market7 BSNL have its connectivity in lehladakh amarnath siachen etc only for the person who protect our country can touch with their family in such tough condition

there are so many points otherhelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip which makes BSNL for country

If BSNL wants to be become in profit it can be done in 6 monthshelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

1 Reduce employees strength upto 30000 and make unemployment for about 220 lakh employees Airtel having revenue 40000 cr having only 25000 employees3 Close all rural exchanges and cut them from indian economy and save about 10000 Cr per year This is enough to make BSNL in profit4 Close all 3G BTS in rural where it can unable to generate revenue equal to its electricity bill to running the BTS5 Close all BTS in remote area and make Indian defence force to suffer

there are hundreds of point other which BSNL can do to become in profit

I agree BSNL has lots of drawback but imagine the condition of India without BSNL

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Tharun George December 24 2013 815 am 815 AM

BSNL can do the following practical things to get profitable1 Close the landline service and replace all landline with WLL phones For broadband replace with 3GI am telling this because in my area BSNL is not giving both landline or broadband saying line not available2 BSNL is getting paid by UOF fund from Gov to put BTS in remote areas and nexal areas3 In Kerala Idea has more tower in rural area than BSNL Almost all towers of Idea are now 3G But BSNL has only started expanding 3G in 3 years

BSNL is not the only organization with large employees Look at railway largest Gov employer in India Still its running without much loss

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AK December 24 2013 1125 am 1125 AM

Railway has incurred Rs60000 cr loss

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Tharun George December 24 2013 235 pm 235 PM

Indian Railways(From wikipedia)Revenue Increase to INR 12568 billion (US$19 billion) (2012ndash13)Net income Increase to INR 1041 billion (US$16 billion) (2012ndash13)

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Pravat Kumar Das December 24 2013 1256 pm 1256 PM

Very good point about BSNL thanks

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rangarajan December 24 2013 308 pm 308 PM

sirBSNL has a huge work force to be reduced by VRS (VOL REmoval scheme) already i informed authority to work with 30000 to get profit but CMD is calm cos he is retiring in June 2014rangarajan

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A RAO December 24 2013 423 pm 423 PM

All private operators do business BSNL gives Services to public BSNL wants profit it can come with in a year profit by doing business like private opertorsBSNL moto is to give best possible services to public in every corner ofIndia and it is ready to give restore immediately the communication when disastrous rains floods etc occures then the private operators for example a Appreciation letter from Govt of India received for restoration communicationservices at Uttarkand in june 2013 when a big disastrous happened

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sanjay April 10 2014 216 pm 216 PM

good comments sir

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kalyankar December 29 2013 945 pm 945 PM

SIR GOOD COMMENTShelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

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sand December 23 2013 1112 pm 1112 PM

chetan

My idea is that bsnl should have tailor made plans and also special offers for customers who make good amount of rechargesA gift would always make a consumer feel important and he would stick around

Postpaid is the greatest revenue generatorBring down the security deposits at par or lower than private firmsCouple it with the fair and transparent billing of bsnl and they will be instant hit

Have a greatly responsible cust care that responds

Cut down broadband prices now instead of doing it wen maybe 4g brings down tariffs and people have already migratedcustomer loyalty always has its own magic

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sand December 23 2013 1107 pm 1107 PM

Chetan

In my mail apart from the complaints i had mentioned these same things to the CMD as some ideasI dont know if he took any notice of that but since his office acted on the complaint i guess he took notice

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sand December 23 2013 1104 pm 1104 PM

chetan

I have been complaining for the last 2 yrs to fix the bsnlsupportFinally last month i decided to escalate matters furtherI sent my complaint to the CMD of BSNL with the kerala circle head in ccThis was my final attemptIt workedI got a mail back from CMD SECTTAlso complaints of mine were being called up and followed up by the circle head or someone in keralaIf you dont trust me i could put the screen shot of the reply i got hereI think all bsnlcustomers should try thisI even offered the CMD the recorded call with customer care which gave me a 53 min hold timeI think since we choose to vent our anger here and there an dnot take it up in the official way we get no replies or fixesIf every consumer facing the issue instead complains and follows it up and makes sure it gets heard then yes we candefinitly make changes

I ask every bsnl customer to do the same and then we will see the changesDont give up by porting or adjustGet ur voice heard

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k thirmal reddy December 23 2013 1036 pm 1036 PM

Here I should mention thatIf there is any PSU in India without itrsquos own responsible and accountable top managementthat is the one and only BSNLIt is a peculiar situation in BSNLEven after 13 years of its formation it still workslike a Govtdept Definitely there are a handful of top managers of impeccable integrity and concern for itwho can make things happen The best trained executives and prime assets and latest infra are the core strengths They should notbe underestimated The non performing assets to be made performing through innovative methods There are constraintsProfit making is not the ultimate visionbut Hope BSNL shall survive and come up with flags to enhance value inthe hands of customers and save the people of India from the clutches of private coSif Govt has the will to serve the people through BSNL

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b m b December 23 2013 1025 pm 1025 PM

UPA Govt should release all Dues pending from DOT some schemes to be announces like Ex MOS Paswanji schemes of Rs500connectionOfficialsofficers of GOVT should use BSNLHON MOC can look in bottle neck GSMnetworks needs of BSNL

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Vikas agarwal December 23 2013 956 pm 956 PM

I do not think now BSNL can compete with Private operatorsOne SDE of BSNL namely Sailash yadav of Faridabad earning black money and nobody is taking any action against himhe is working in tax section

So if condition like these continues and strict action if not taken then people will fed up from BSNl

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Darshan Malu December 23 2013 944 pm 944 PM

It should be published in newspapers media everywherehellipso that RK upadhya will know abt ithellipor your efforts going 2 b utter wastehellipplz possible mail this post to media mails like to TOI or NDTV or ET or anywhete possiblei amsure they will appreciate u r efforts and will publish themhellip

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Ducts December 23 2013 940 pm 940 PM

Nothing is going to improveIndia is a country where the top officials r oldhellipu can c our pmhellipeven with bsnl same thinghellipthat rk upadhay i think can even not operate his email id i think bcuz after sending so many email that man doesnt even have sense ofreplyinghellipuck u r company n sry not company actually u n ur corrupt teamhellipSaala samajhta nahi its nly our indiarsquos losshellipif u c ATampThellipDue 2 its QoS people dont even think to go for TshymobilehellipIndian government koh bhi samajtha nahi to appoint youngsters in such job by seeing what he actually knows n with gud marketting skillshellipWTF even after having pan india 3G lincense one would had taken advantage of it n make company to move forwardhellipRk upadhay u just take retirement u r mind age has no more ideas its time u r mind needs SANYAS

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Rishabh December 23 2013 1041 pm 1041 PM

+100000000

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Akhil Mohan December 23 2013 913 pm 913 PM

My experienceFor the last two weeks there is no internet in my 3G connection It connects but no data transfer takes place Registered a complaint with the no 9400000198 an waited for their call for 1 week but no one called me and today i received amessage saying your complaint has been closedHow will a company like this ever make profit If govt tries to bail out BSNL i may even try to go to court to prevent that because public dont need to pay for their wrong doings and inefficency

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derik December 23 2013 843 pm 843 PM

BSNL IS THE BEST IN KERALA AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE THE MARKET LEADER VERY SOONhelliphellipI LOVE BSNLhelliphellip

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LShobha December 23 2013 812 pm 812 PM

I would like to comment on corruption Eradicating corruption should be TOP DOWN approach and not BOTTOM UP approach Corruption cannot be cleansed from lineman to CMD but the other way around BSNL is a governmentcompany and obviously it will be a reflection of how our government is being run ndash scam ridden ndash Coalgate 2G Maharashtra dam scandalCommonwealth games scandal Robert Vadra Scandal mining scandal etc etc As the sayinggoes ndash ldquoYathah Raja Thathah PrajardquoBSNL has its share of scams within ndash awarding of contracts by top management to Boston Consulting Group appointing brand ambassadors to Ms Preity Zinta Deepika Padukone without any tangible result Perhaps the biggest ofthem all is the BSNL CDMA services Crores of public money invested without any revenueAs for the employees it is better to offer VRS to all the DOT recruited employees and hand over the organisation to the BSNL recruited youngsters and make them more accountableFinally BSNL should continue to exist in the larger interests of the countryrsquos security The government can not allow the Mittals Ambanis Tatas and Birlas to pocket crores of rupees money to gift aeroplanes to their wives and celebrateglitzy and glamorous wedding anniversaries and build Antilias with helicopter landing pads

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joseph joy christopher December 23 2013 747 pm 747 PM

BSNL Lags in1)proper plans2)no permanent tariff some plan came within 2 weekrsquos it will be removed eg 12rs roaming pack3)bad customer service4) even using gprs packs is not allowed in tn circle on black out days even with pack it is chargable

Prorsquos1)core network in all arearsquos

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SAHIL December 23 2013 703 pm 703 PM

BSNL CAN NEVER AND WILL NEVER IMPROVE OR CHANGE BECAUSE ITS RUN BY CORRUPT CRONIES OF PRIVATE OPERATORS AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS WHOSE ONLY AGENDA IS TO DESTROY BSNLAND BENEFIT PRIVATE OPERSTORS BSNL IS ALREADY ANOTHER AIR INDIA IN MAKING ULTIMATELY BSNL LOSSES WILL BE FUNDED FROM INDIAN CONSUMERS AND TAX PAYERS HARD EARNEDMONEY BUT AFTER 2014 ELECTIONS MODI WILL CLEAN UP THESE CORRUPT PEOPLE AND BSNL WILL IMPROVE

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Panditji December 23 2013 621 pm 621 PM

It is completely true that BSNL does not care its customers I surrendered a BSNL land line connection in Muzaffarpur Bihar only because of its employees After many request to its concern officials (even to higher official BSNLMuzaffarpur) no proper step was taken for a long period but every bishymonth i was served with a suitable bill and finally i unwillingly surrendered the connection This is what BSNL officials care its customers If this situation remainscontinued BSNL will never go in profit

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Satheesh December 23 2013 606 pm 606 PM

Myself is a BSNL employee I think the real problem lies with the TOP management Top level management is still DOT staff and deputation to BSNL Most of them are least bothered about the future of the Company and they are onlyburocrats and no professionalism which is the need of the hour They are not at all accountable for their activities and not ready to accept the feedback given by other stake holders such as employees franchisees etc Only proffessionalmanagement can rescue the organisation

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js December 23 2013 833 pm 833 PM

The pathetic state of the BSNL is purely because of the very bad attitude of the employees Employees are only interested in salary hike for every pay commission and spend least time in office If you want to see the attitude of theemployees you should go to an exchange or customer care center As a BSNL employee did you recommend any of your family or relatives to use BSNL product Do you know all details of BSNL products provided in your circleFirst BSNL employee should confidently market the product with their friends and relatives and they are the prime source of brand building They will blame BSNL then how they will be able to build the brand 2lakhs employeesif they try their best then BSNL can be profitable within 6months Customers need BSNL service but if BSNL can reach customers then people will always opt for it BSNL has the best tariff plans best coverage and no hiddencharges So only attitude of the employees should change not higher officials It is just an excuse to runaway from responsibilities by blaming higher officials This is what always BSNL employees union do

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Akhil Mohan December 23 2013 915 pm 915 PM

No body wants BSNL to improve Please shutdownhellip

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js December 24 2013 954 am 954 AM

AkhilBefore commenting on this you should know India first 90 percentage of mobile users do not want 3G or 4G or any data use They use mobile only to contact near and dear ones BSNL is the only service provider whoprovided service in rural areas small panchayats naxal affected areas and even Jammu and Kashmir where our soldiers are totally depending on BSNL network to contact their near and dear ones Pvt providers only look atprofit and even betray nation for the sake of money All defence orgs can only depend on BSNL and not any other service provider In UK customers did an agitation against vodafone on not paying the tax But in Indiacustomers will get more attracted by just the brand name and since it is a foreign operator and even though they do all tax frauds

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SS December 24 2013 1131 am 1131 AM

I still believe that vodafone tax case is completely non sense When vodafone acquired hutch there was no such law to tax transactions between companies incorporated outside india (the same supreme court ruled)Now they changed law to extract money by hook or by crook Is this a way

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krishna December 23 2013 516 pm 516 PM

Sometimes the strength becomes weakness The same is happening in BSNL ie Excess staff (Comparing with Private operators) is one of the reason for loss The management should take some bold decisions like giving VRSminimising retirement age from 60 to 58 (as major CPSU had the retirement age as 58)

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Chandra Sekhar Mandal December 23 2013 430 pm 430 PM

Previously i was using BSNL because it was giving 8 GB 2G [although i was getting 3G speed every time i recharged on my sim] data for just Rs219 for 30 days But after they unified 2G and 3G packs i did no recharge on that BSNL

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sim and its validity is also over I was a BSNL customer just because data purposeBSNL GO TO HELLhellip

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id December 23 2013 826 pm 826 PM

still its cheaper than others tariff

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deril December 23 2013 851 pm 851 PM

poor

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BatMAn December 23 2013 430 pm 430 PM

The funniest thing i have noticed isWhen ever Electricity in my area is down the same timethe BSNL network signal will be zero after a few minutes signal will be restored(Even if Electricity is Restored or not)i think they are have to start the DG Manuallyor No proper UPShellipif we are in a call the call will be doped Bsnl Karnataka Circle

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Rama December 23 2013 332 pm 332 PM

SaurabhHow did you know that BSNL has given out contract to expand netwrok in north indiaif you have any other source than tt and economic times would you please share it

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SS December 23 2013 322 pm 322 PM

This isnrsquot a new news This was expected and it happened Thanks to the worst management of bsnl In my circle up east there are fairly large no Of customers but ironically only 42 are active as per trairsquos report On the other handvodafone has 9970 active users and its 2g services are superior among all here My father uses bsnl only for 151shy400 mins tariff and would surely dump it if they ditch that scheme

Data services are worst than hell in bsnl For 20 days of month 2g data remains down and 3g goes down many times a day

Interconnectivity problems in bsnl are not uncommon Last time they blocked calls to vodafone for 2 months and only bsnl customers suffered I use airtel in delhi and its awesome in quality of service No single issue to complain aboutIn up east i use idea because of its robust 3g network all over the state Bsnl must to learn from them

But bsnl in far more superior than tata docomo reliance gsm aircel Lets hope that they improve

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Adil December 23 2013 950 pm 950 PM

ss i always use to agree to you but this time in climax i deny to your comment bsnl is worst than all operator whether it is docomo aircel reliance in fact uninor is far better than bsnlhellipthat is why uninor is making positive cashflow where as bsnl dying

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Aam Admi December 23 2013 221 pm 221 PM

ldquo8 Shut down loss making telephone exchanges or the ones which bring less revenue ndash many people opt for landline just due to broadband benefits through such exchanges (mainly rural) 3G data cards at special prices could beencouraged at such placesrdquo

As you already know 3G data cards are not a substitute to wired broadband I pay around 1000 INR for a broadband connection while living in a rural area Irsquom ready to pay more if BSNL can offer a 1 Mbps unlimited without FUPplan I keep my line only for broadband(a lot of people)

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Chethan S December 23 2013 713 pm 713 PM

Though I enjoy good quality Beam Fiber connection here in Hyderabad my familyrsquos situation is like yours back in my home town Our home falls in a BSNL Rural exchangersquos limits There particularly in the rainy season due tothunderstorms BSNL officials power off the telephone exchange during nights and even during weekends as an anticipatory measure depriving us of broadband connectivity Having a night unlimited connection we find itextremely the difficult to use internet within data usage limits As you said 3G data card is certainly not an alternative to wired broadband but if service is not good 3G at special rates would be welcome

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Tharun George December 23 2013 153 pm 153 PM

The only reason I am on BSNL is for cheap 3G and good 2G coverage All other things of BSNL are worst Call rates are not that low 2G internet is pathetic cannot even open google It takes 45min to get connected to customer careNetwork busy low quality sound

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prithvi December 23 2013 336 pm 336 PM

Exactly +1 BSNL

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Sugu December 23 2013 835 pm 835 PM

Tharun Well thatrsquos really surprising coz I have never faced such situation once when i had a problem ie Rs5 being deducted every week for no reason I went to their Thirunakkara Office and complained 2 days later Ireceived an SMS saying that my issue had been solved and even refunded me About the tariff in my knowledge it is providing cheapest base tariff among the operators i know I may be wrong and about 2G speed i always geta speed above 10kBshere is my speed test 2G httpwwwspeedtestnetmyshyresulta674883594

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Tharun George December 24 2013 827 am 827 AM

BSNL never deducted nay of my money As far as tariff go it is as high as private Most plans are 15ps and only mithram plan has 13ps STV are also costly

10KBs is very very low Your ping is very bad PING 903 ms Try opening gmail with it I have tested all operators 2G speed in Kerala Here are the resultDocomoshy 236kbpsAircelshy 225kbps (Shutdown)Relianceshy 225kbpsIdea ndash 170kbpsVodafone ndash 140kbpsAirtel ndash 100kbpsBSNL ndash 100kbps

For 3G BSNL has speed between 1shy2mbps But Idea 3G gives 6mbps at most time I use Reliance for 2G internet and calling Rs 74 STV gives 1p2sec for 6 months Lowest tariff in India

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Tharun George December 24 2013 830 am 830 AM

By the way you went to Kottayam office to get Rs 5 back Once I had gone there to pay Rs 4 bill for landline They laughed at me and asked how much Bus fare I spend to get there

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sugu December 24 2013 220 pm 220 PM

I said above 10kBs And it deducted Rs5 for 4 weeks I did not say anything about the refund but still they did and about 3G after 1030 I always get only about 50shy70kBs at home But at the morning it flies of to500shy700kBs when I went to my friendrsquos home at kumaranellor therersquos even H+ and I downloaded 270MB under 8 minuteshellipBus fare lol Vadavathoor to Old bus standhellip 6rshellip lolhellipBTW only 4rs landline what was your plan I hardly use tye landline the connection is only to avail broadband

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Tharun George December 24 2013 700 pm 700 PM

Vadavathoor We are so close yet meet online I am here just before Manarcad I most signal from Vadavathoor tower

I used to pay for 1 year for landline + broadband Some times exceed and they send Rs 2 or Rs 4 bills by postal Postage itself is Rs 4 for them

Disconnected BSNL broadband and landline this month I have Asianet broadband and Relaince 2G If you are using BSNL Broadband better switch to Asianet 4mbps broadband plans

I used to get 3G signal from BSNL tower at vadavathoor But 2 months ago BSNL added 3G to Rubber Board tower BTW I get signal for all private operators from Vadavathoor Does Docomo have tower atVadavathoor I am complaining for past 5 years to them about no coverage

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Sugu December 25 2013 527 pm 527 PM

Ah I think not Actually where does Docomo have towers My home is 2KM away from Thirunakkara Mostly I walk By the time I reach home BSNL will have switched through 3Towers (all 3G)while Docomo still remains connected to Thirunakkara I just get 1bar of range here and if I go to the hall no coverage Even when I went to my friends house 5km away its the same towerhellipIf you use android then download Network Signal Info it gives all details about that tower

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Riju VV December 23 2013 1029 pm 1029 PM

Bsnl kerala already introduced new customer care 9400000198No need to wait just call and enter your number They will call you back

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Tharun George December 24 2013 828 am 828 AM

You have to wait for there call back Which will take 30min ndash 1 hour

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Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 832 pm 832 PM

They never called me back for my complaint

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Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 830 pm 830 PM

Idea is now giving 1GB data for Rs 123 as a special offer

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Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 144 pm 144 PM

BSNL network is dead in Kaikhali near Kolkata Airport Area for last 10 daysIt seems that BSNL network is dead in so many places of Kolkata and they are not aware of BSNL fault and it forces people to use non BSNL SIMs

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Partha December 23 2013 842 pm 842 PM

Kaushik I live in Haldiram area near kaikhali and I did not face the problem you mentioned even for one day What was your exact location is it just beside Airport area

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Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 1054 pm 1054 PM

Partha There are few towers surrounding Kaikhali near your area haldiramHaldiram cell info display is KENDRIYA VIHAR (ABC) which is working fine and I get its signal from Outside my home but inside its stength is NIL Only I get cell info KAMALAPUR(ABC) ampDASODRONE(ABC) with 1 bar from balcony with fluctuation every 1 minuteBut the tower with KAIKHALI(ABC) cell info is not working from last 10 days which is the nearest tower from my house which is situated at Main road of VIP

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Kaushik Roy December 26 2013 1119 pm 1119 PM

Finally BSNL cell info (KAIKHALI ABC) tower started working from tonight after almost 12 days

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Saurabh December 23 2013 127 pm 127 PM

Since they gave tender for expansion in North zone I hope that their service will get better in Haryana and 3G will become available by October but none of the things happened Instead their 2G network which was worst before gettingmore and more worst here The indoor signal in my area in whatever house you check is nil to 1 bar only Those living near the BTS also face call drops You canrsquot call without voice cracking The network is just getting to bottom andno one to take care I have BSNL SIM which I recharge only once in a year with Rs34 validity extension to keep it alive as I keep SIM to check service quality

Whenever you call customer care the IVR says ldquoYour extimated hold time is 35 minutes 27 secrdquo and always over it Their CC is complete dumb and people at CSC are just illiterate who has only one answer for all the question ldquoBhaiyeh toh upar waley log decide karenge tabhi upgrade hoga Ab tumhara signal nahi aata toh hum kya karerdquo Their quality is sucking to the bottom at 60shy70 places Their VLR data shows that not even 10 lakh out of 30 lakh subscribersusing it Now you can understand why

Thanks to the private companies like Vodafone and Idea and Airtel also who have ubiquitous network and even after having 3shy4 times of BSNL subscribers their network works like charm and 99 uptime Thanks to Idea for providing3G to city towns villages and everywhere I went it was there Today I donrsquot have a single contact which is of BSNL and those I have are ported out to AVoId only

Videocon has started expansion and now have more active customers than BSNL in Haryana and soon they will have mre than that of Tata and Reliance Their is a limit to stupidity and BSNLhad crossed it since it started The conditionhere is even worst then what it was in 2004 It seems that BSNL is handling 500 customers per tower here which is chocking network all the day Few weeks back their network kept dead for 3 days So those who are on bsnl are losingeverything

I hope they donrsquot launch 3G in towns as their 2G signal is 1 bar on 1800 MHz What it will be on 2100 MHz 3G bandhellip They should save money and never launch 3G in towns in Haryana A slap to BSNL face from me

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John Thomas December 23 2013 116 pm 116 PM

What ever the writer suggested will never been going to implement I am been very long investigating BSNL policies and methodsi found that bsnl is administered by very corrupted ones Inefficient officers are getting on the top The

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main reason why people donrsquot choose bsnl is thateven though if there is a tower nearby to ones homeit is hard to find signal inside their home Government still holds bsnl nothing for but to maintain a security level in communicationof strategic important ones

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Ramesh Darji December 23 2013 1140 am 1140 AM

Dear Sanjay I want address issue of tata docomo not BSNL BSNL is govt company and some can understand but what happen to TataIn gujarat they have 3G but surprisingly they stop expanding 3G coverage Worst ever they switch off many sites in rural areas and highways In gujarat late entrant Uninor and videocon even doing better than tataIts worst ever they offers and schemes Their offer is changing so fast that customer lost trust on themStill they are riding on photon+ in maharastra and mumbai but their time is now over They are not realising adoption of 3G and still their data package is much higherOn the other hand realince and other 3G operator providing much cheaper 3G 156 now for realince 3G 299 for 2GB for MTNL and others are offering goodReliance Joi will launch service in short period and I think BSNL and other private operator who is not much serious about customer choice will be finished

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jz December 23 2013 1126 am 1126 AM

bsnl is cheap and best but didnrsquot know how to encash it

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Vamsi December 30 2013 1009 am 1009 AM

Hi frnd hellipthx for the article and my view was BSNL has a robust network to serve india better than any private company but The main and only obstacle was their employs hellipthe higher authority should initiate necessary steps todeploy corporate style to bsnlhellipbecz we all know that working hours of bsnl employs are not up to the mark so make them(Employes) work and serve better

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Juneja shy Nagpur January 3 2015 532 pm 532 PM

Corruption is the root cause of all the evils of the PSU Every officer right from Group C upto CMD are totally corruptRight from procurement of Equipment and stores by Corporate office higher officers till the delivery of services tothe door steps of customers there is totally corruption due which non standard Equipments and stores are used and services are also degradedThere is no right HR policy to properly motivate the staffs and executives and there alsocorruption plays a disaster role and there is no respect for morale and sincere officers of the PSUIf a CBI raid is conducted in all the top brasses in HR and MM department of the BSNL Corporate office then definitely a bulk no ofofficers can be caught to be possessing disproportionate assets in their ketty

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SS June 3 2014 1249 pm 1249 PM

If you have an international roaming sim then you follow the steps (if you hadnrsquot)shy

go to sim toolkit(celloneBSNL Mobile)gtgtnetworkgtgtinternationalgtgtcellone partner

Restart device and if no signal select network manually

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ER Raghvendra ( JTO shyBSNL north ) May 19 2014 1203 pm 1203 PM

Guys everything amp everyone are not perfect Secondly u guys are quiet True in ur side hellip But There are many flaws but main cause which I see daily are 1) it is only amp only Engineers of BSNL who are working hard irrespective of days hrs We get deadlines designing cost cutting applying field work etc2) Everyone in Bsnl is dependant on us Juniors donrsquot listen to us as why wud they coz they get regular income amp not afraid infact aged juniors try to shout on us being seniors3) We have notified seniors many times regarding flaws but they raise there hands amp donrsquot even provide us with proper resources quality amp force us to do magic

So on whole it is basically lack of surveillance on employees especially field one amp ya junior employees are mannerless I wud say

~ a Electrical Engineer working in BSNL north

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hap May 12 2014 852 pm 852 PM

1 proper mgmt of staffs donrsquot promote ministerial staff like clerks to technical posts because they know nothing compared to the urban consumers Also try to decrease the number of ministerial staffs by reducing the number of newjobs2Try to tell the linemen donrsquot demand bribes3 Improve marketing strategy Promote evdo services It is the only true unlimited wireless internet connection4 Give new landline connections only if they are subscribing for broad band connection

5 Last but the most important one Go to supreme court against the Intra Circle Roaming Agreement for 3G It is purely unethical to allow 3G sharing after auctioning pan India spectrum for a huge price The govt may not be interestedin this (we all know the reason)

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BANOTHU SAKRU April 17 2014 227 pm 227 PM

Its very nice discussion If all the employees of BSNL work together for our vision we can get success

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prathap April 5 2014 1130 pm 1130 PM

not plans for farmers i mean agriculture peoples major population of india nearly 50 percent in agriculture mainly now a days agriculture is also need of lack of communication

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Pravat Kumar Das February 28 2014 350 pm 350 PM

Website of BSNL Circle looks like outdated and rejected site Same position of SSA Intranet and also BSNL Employees Unions siteCorruption Grass root employees are temporary or contractual they are getting very marginal payment Example When a Permanent Line Man getting payment Rs 20000 to 35000 same work done by a contractual worker in 1750 to

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2500 Data Entry Operator getting payment 2000 to 2500 and like this a Broadband maintenance work done in 1000 to 2200 Whereas State Govt paid there worker Watchman or Peon Rs 4500 Data Entry Operatorshy Rs 5200 to 8000Technical worker 7500 to 9500 Today in this payment can a person maintain his family and can give his child education Corruption is only for their survival Now days if you find minimum 70 connection of BSNL Land Linesubscriber are getting connection giving extra moneyNext thing is marketing DSA (Direct Sales Agent) appointed for Marketing But in BSNL there are no auto mechanism to give payment no rewards for performance and no promotion to experience person like other organization (LICInsurance and Finance Sector etc) DSAs are not getting payment properly Even 1 year to 2 year payment pending Officers are showing that they are saving BSNL money by breaking DSAs payment To pass a Bill required so manysignatures Every signature creates corruption Last 2 to 3 year it develops gradually There are no rewards for better work When a DSA do better that time Officer Cutoff his bill 20 30 40 and even 50 according to better workIn such a situation how can marketing developUDAAN CFA Marketing wing of BSNL doing nothing only outdated Data entry of Leads Officer and worker engaged in wing expenditure huge amount in this head They are entering data which is already settled If you see data 80to 90 data entered are outdated Actually Project Udaan is very good mechanism but nobody utilized it from top to bottom it is work only Pen and Paper Top Level Officer and Management are neglecting in their duty They are notwatching work only wastage money of BSNL getting payments BSNL give SMS ldquo BSNL in your door steprdquo when a customer giving SMS for a LandLine or Broadband that go to cold store for 2 to 3 months Within this periodcustomer coming to Exchange or office and solving problem in their ways After 2 to 3 month SMS forwarded to field unit SA(Sales Associate) I think 60 of Udaan SA (Sales Associate) not using their ID they have no computerknowledge this work done by STL (Sales Team Leader)

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Rudresha January 12 2014 1029 pm 1029 PM

HiFriendsBSNL having some weakness is follows1) Cheif managing director to group shyD employ counting there days for super annuation2) all employs are high paid for there work3) almost all the time BSNL work is non productive4) even after 13 years BSNLstill now not having clear and futuristic HR policy5) BSNL Must practice preventive and protective maintenance for quality serviceoveral Bsnl realy doing good with all demerits

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ajay January 12 2014 822 am 822 AM

I think its issue should be resolved They should opt or leave bsnl Second is lack of corporate culture Third is group c amp d unions which only do vote politics over services

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subham January 11 2014 645 pm 645 PM

USSD based services activation is one of the importantswhich BSNL lacks most

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Kaushik Roy January 9 2014 1005 pm 1005 PM

BSNL started online EshyAUCTION of its 75 premium numbers for all circlesThe prices vary from 5000 to 25000A little way of some earning from the loss making GIANT

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will January 3 2014 940 pm 940 PM

Well staff thinks its a goverment run company so they take everyting for granted i thnk bsnl should be pravatised now

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Ramesh dhaker kanera gata January 2 2014 543 pm 543 PM

Bsnl the best network

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aravind January 2 2014 1224 am 1224 AM

BSNL is state owned company ie peoplersquos telecom companyOthers are private profit making companiesIf BSNL is not in market then the call rate would be increasing day by dayas in the case of petroleum industryPrivate Telecom companies are slowly and silently increasing their tariffsSo support and stay with BSNL as we are all loyal indian citizens

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Bandhan Preet Singh January 22 2014 1156 pm 1156 PM

very right aravind

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Pravin Prashant December 30 2013 439 pm 439 PM

Here i am also facing the same problem which you are facing From some days the BSNL network is very poor and we are unable to talk frequently Voice breaks are a common matter with BSNL network The customer care executivesare not so friendly like other mobile operators The most bizarre fact of BSNL is its server down Whenever you call to a customer care executive they are providing the same answer server down please call later It is strongly advisedBSNL to take care of its intentional customers to make them happy

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Tarun December 30 2013 642 pm 642 PM

Pravin its not only you every BSNL customer is facing the same issue

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BP Singh December 30 2013 1013 pm 1013 PM

Pravin you must book complaint online and highlight how in ur Area BSNL is not working wellAs a good customer you must raise the matter to highest authority It may make some one happy as u said

BSNL Public Grievance Portal for any kind of complaintshymisbsnlcoinpgsinternetpgwebregnasp

Government Department Related Complaintsshypgportalgovin

RTI Onlineshyrtionlinegovin

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satyajit saikia December 30 2013 430 pm 430 PM

According to me at first the low level employees from casual worker should be trained about the services tariffs etc flawlessly and why our services better than other private operators and also trained them why and how to convince

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the customer For doing this the monetary rewards should be given to them Also some monitory power should be given to TTArsquos as they are running almost every exchanges and low level employees directly connected to them

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kalyankar December 29 2013 932 pm 932 PM

dear chetan thanks for the article very good onehelliphelliphelliphellipthe best point in the article u never tried to degrade bsnl by comparing bsnl with private operatorshellipwho r in the market just to earn money helliphelliphelliphellipand to all those who r withbsnl thanks for ur support becoz of the customers like u bsnl is able to survive against all oddshellipUPA is giving bail out to private firms but it is not willing to bailout the govt owned bsnlhelliphelliphelliphellip+BSNL is very essential to be in the market to prevent the atrocities of private operatorshelliphelliphellipif BSNL is not there then we would have charged even for incoming and call rates might have gone up upto rs 10shyper minutehelliphelliphelliphellipat lastBmdashshyBESTSmdashshySPOKENNmdashshyNATIONALLmdashshyLANGUAGE

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Kiran December 29 2013 309 pm 309 PM

I agree with the above suggestions In my view some practical things that can be done like try to attract the young graduates for marketing for that some dedicated marketing wing should exist Improve the customer satisfaction level bypoliteness and caring for the customers Utilising the infrastructure including training centers for commercial purpose Cost cutting measures to be taken in maintenance

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Indian December 28 2013 733 pm 733 PM

I suggest you come to reality 9999 of ppl who use BSNL donrsquot know approaching social media So any spend by BSNL on social media is waste of money The main pblem is their lazy old employees Their overpaid salaries for thework they r doing is main reason for BSNL loses

Once in bnglr I tried to shift my BB connection when I changed room amp I had to go pillar to post between two BSNL exchanges amp even after 15 days the connection didnrsquot got transference but a single call to a private BB every gotdone So itrsquos mainly their lazy employees

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G SUMANTH KUMAR TTA BSNL MACHILIPATNAM December 27 2013 1115 pm 1115 PM

If BSNL Management implements proper transfer policy then things will change almost And good quality infrastructure should be provided for better results In staff side BSNL is paying Rs 50000shy approximately for the clerical dutiesin the organization in these days also even its implementing paper less concept Management should remove the unproductive staff like watchman s also BSNL paying Rs 40000shy per month

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KALAYAN December 29 2013 934 pm 934 PM

HI SUMANTH I GUESS THIS IS NOT THE PLATFORM TO DISCUSS SUCH ISSUES BEING AN EMPLOYEEE OF BSNL

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kaushal singla December 27 2013 1022 am 1022 AM

in bsnl there should be accountability of every employee for their workbsnl employee doing great work now but if there is no backup at bts then a emplyee cant do anythingif we ask for battery cells there is no cells if we ask for battery protection unit the answer is novery poor maintenance of bts power plant and

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rahul December 27 2013 928 am 928 AM

bsnl plan validity scheme should change out it gives only 6 month validity to compete than others private companies gives near bout 3 years validity and after time goes on validity automatically increased but in bsnl validity game islike a supari killer who contract for a money and have a crime just like bsnl also make compulsion of validity recharge to keep active also sound quality of a call is bull shit and several drawbacks must removed

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Rushabh December 26 2013 951 am 951 AM

I mailed this to CMD mailA reply came from them saying lsquoThankyou for your feedbackWe are in a position of removing conjunction state by statehellipwe have cleared nearly 99 conjunction in maharashtrahellipnow we are making gujrat and go to differentstatesWe will be completing all states by July 14helliprsquo

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MRC Xavier December 26 2013 941 am 941 AM

This is a Wonderful article to motivate the BSNL employees right from CMD to The Group D But how many of them might have read this article to understand the fact I am also an employee of this great company People like me tryour best to convey this kind of informations to our own fellow employees

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Nitin Koirala December 26 2013 151 am 151 AM

Hi this is Nitin Koirala and i am using Blackberry 8520 if I will activate any BB plan it will work automatical or need Internet setting please reply me on my eshymail Id Thank Nitin koirala

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sourabh agrawal December 26 2013 1019 am 1019 AM

For Blackberry 8520 handset you need to recharge only blackberry plan For prepaid this voucher will be in 410 +shy 5 range After recharging with blackberry voucher 1st time service will be start in 2 hrs automatically

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Ankit Negi December 26 2013 137 am 137 AM

very nice analysis by you sir i agree with you

I want to add why BSNL is best

1) Best 3G speed as I get around 900KBps (its kilobytes not kilobits) speed in my town Dehradun where other operators like Airtel gives 300KBps and Idea gives 300KBps while TATA DOCOMO gives aroung 500KBps speed

2) Not a single paisa is wrongly deduced from my balance in last 6 years

In my dehradun (Uttarakhand) the biggest problem with BSNL is 1) Very Very poor customer support if you get any problem then there is no way for you other than go to BSNL main head office and submit your handwritten complain2)Sometimes 3G services do not run in some part of town3) BSNL Uttaranchal website does not remain updated on time

Sir I think curruption is the biggest problem with BSNL Higher authorities of BSNL are highly curropt they choose for customer care services to those companies who gave them very high commision below the table they gave portal maintainence services to those companies who gave themagain very high commisionThis is the main reason of very poor service of BSNL

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Sayantan(Kolkata) December 26 2013 1213 am 1213 AM

I am a die hearted fan of Airtrl but I really feel sad for BSNL as it is sinking slowly and graduallyEverytime when I visit a BSNL exchange I see that its filled with some people from the 50s and 40s who dosent know even T oftechnology and my God their behaviourSo RUDEI dont understand what do these grandfathers think of themselvesWhereas look at the employees of the private operatorsSo smartThey are paid much less than BSNL but still theydont behave rudelySo obviously why wont people prefer BSNLPeople say that BSNL is good and its network is present in the Siachen and Villiages but how many times are we normal people visiting Siachen and villagesIt all thatmatters is the service that we get from them when we at our home location and in my home locationits better to forget that there is a company called BSNL

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P MANOJ December 26 2013 551 pm 551 PM

Dear Mr Sayantan please remember that the rates of other operators including that of Airtel is not increasing only because BSNL is there in the field

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Rajesh May 24 2014 754 pm 754 PM

I accept with you sayantan I also faced similar problem I was attracted by the network availabilty and plans of bsnl and planned to port The first word i got from my colleague is not to go bsnl as it has the worst customer serviceI was working in a MNC and no one here has bsnl connection except me as we are having very good offers from airtel and better connectivity For porting my no to BSNL i went to the bsnl office and people there are behavingreally rude there attitude is like if you want buy otherwise leave I have been to airtel office and people are behaving really good they are asking my requirement and suggesting plan accordingly I am interested in taking postpaidconnection but consoled myself not to go after seeing their behaviour They are not even ready to tell what offers they are having I finally got my sim after visitng there 5 shy6 times which got fortunately activated I Checked theplan in internet as I have office network and activated plans relavant to me Now i am facing problem with my network connection I am in the hot of the bangalore city Koramangala and i am not having proper 3g connection Itried to reach customer care and when they pick they are simply disconnecting it They are not even ready to wait for us to say hello Now i am repenting my move I submitted my complaint online but not sure whether i will getresponse I planned to wait for some time otherwise planning to move to airtel as spending few bucks extra is better than having no connectivity

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N GUPTA (ANDHRA PRADESH) December 25 2013 909 pm 909 PM

Bsnl making loses because of UPA ndash I and II wrong decisions In 2005 and then it cancelled many expansion plans of bsnl So with less towers i canrsquot server huge customers so from last several years bsnl customers are facing problemsWith this reasons many people reluctant to use BSNL service After Upadhya took charge as a CMD they started expansion this year they are adding 147 millions cell lines with help ZTE All these ZTE towers supports 2G 3G 4GNow upadhaya planing to adopt managed network model In this model like nokia or ericsson or alcatelshylucent take care of bsnl network for ten years If they find any congestation in any area they install new tower immediately Inpresent model it canrsquot start new towers immediately And bsnl converting its network switches from TDM to NGN which is very advanced and capable to serve more customers With TDM technology there is much wastage of networkWith NGN technology they can start IPTV Video on Demand etc So Bsnl has to start new services like IPTV Video on demand etc With these service it can earn more revenue Apart from these first BSNL employees fight with UPAgovt if it stop managed model network expansion plans not for their Salaries or DArsquos or Travel charges

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karthik December 25 2013 632 pm 632 PM

recruit new young guys talented is marketing hr etc give vrs for those willing to go because those cannot bring any +impact to bsnl

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Aslam December 25 2013 518 pm 518 PM

BSNL MAKING HUGE LOSSES BECAYSE ITS RUN BY CORRUPT OFFICIALS WORKING IN INTERESTS OF PRIVATE OPERATORS ONLY MODI CAN SAVE BSNL AND INDIA

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XYZ December 25 2013 732 pm 732 PM

modi coruptless no one is corupless in politics

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susfb December 25 2013 457 pm 457 PM

Foremost thing is that BSNL is a service provider and not a business group established for making profit Employees are recruited for maintaining the telecom services and not for marketing Leave these employees for technicalmaintenance form separate marketing wing with young talented guys with marketing aptitude

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Hariharan A December 25 2013 443 pm 443 PM

I appreciate your analasis and suggestion for improvement of bsnl to get profitI have aleady sent my views through my mailBy adopting this Ibelieve bsnl will get profit within 21 monthsshy3 months for consideration of plan and 18months for execute the planBsnl existence is very essential not only for safety of our country but also arrest private operators earning more money from customers for examble we know that they charged for incoming and out goingcalls with high rate before we enter the cell businessThanking you sirHariharan A SrtoaBsnl employee Nagercoil division Tamil nadu Circle

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pradeep December 26 2013 1056 pm 1056 PM

fully agreed with u sirndash pradeepcommon man

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Hariharan A December 25 2013 325 pm 325 PM

The retirment age of the bsnl officials may be reduced from 60 to 58yearswhich will decrease the salary expenditure to a certain extentYoung energetic and enthusiastic engineering graduates may be recruited as apprentice trainees fortwo years to compete with other operators in the fast developing technology after that they may be prefered for regular post Periodically inspectio and surprise check up should be conducted by the officerswhich will help theimprovement of serviceAll nationalisedscheduled banks should be approached for opening ATM centers in BSNL officesas minimum 30 centre in each districtby this we can crores of rupees as profitAlso shopping complex may be constructed in BSNLvacant land by availing bank loan taking advance amount from prospective customers for offering the same for rentPunctuality in duty should be inculcated among staff from top to bottom by introducing card punching which is connected with salary packageThe above practice will yield fruitfull resultIncentiveHonararium payment may be made by means of Top up cards intead of cash paymentsBy fixing a target date for disposal all idle and obsolute storesthe unserviceable stores should be disposed offVacant buildings and BSNL quarters may be given rent for GovtSemi GovtPSU whereever possibleThe tariff benefits and offers should resemble to private operatorsThen only BSNL will survivegtProcedures for international roaming should be simplified like private operatorsPrepaid plans may be rationalisegttop ups and planvalidity voucher may be merged togetherVRS to employees by getting loan from bank is not inteligable

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KOTESWARARAONERELLA December 25 2013 1018 am 1018 AM

MrChetan has very correctly and dispassionately analysed the plus and minuses of BSNLAs a retired senior officer of DOTBSNL I fully agree with MrChetanBasically the staff 100 lines ratio is high in BSNL when compared withother private telcos who got very less staff for 100 lines and consequently the pay bill with pay revison commissions increase along with other central employees thereby major part goes to salariesThese staff were NOT RECRUITEDBY BSNL BUT CAME AS A LEGACY OF DOT and they have to be continued or given VRS with a GOOD GOLDEN HANDSHAKE FOR WHICH THE GOVTHAS TO FINANCE AROUND 10K cores which they are notreleasing2 The staff recruited in 1980s are RAW candidates with little education and they may not be able to express confidently in English with customers and at the most in local language also they have to learn speak polished language whichis to be imparted at Training centres3A few thousands Engineering graduates have been directly recruited as JTO (Junior Telecm Officer ) and TTAs (Telecom Technical Assistants) and these people are not being trained in HRD in the trainng centres to the desired extentthereby they are not being fully exploited4The DOT has to REFUND around 8000shy crores for the BWA spectrum returned back in 2011 and eventhough the GOM has recommened to refund in which FM and MOC are members yet the money is not yet givenIf given then the

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RED will become GREEN in the balance sheet5Supply of Instrumentscables jointing kitsdrop wires etc which are required for EXTERNAL PLANT MAINTENANCE AND DIRECTLY NEEDED FOR THE SUBSCRIBER are in poor supplyI am told they are keepingsometimes RECOVERED AND REPAIRED PHONE INSTRUMENTS TO NEW CUSTOMERS and this should be stopped to increase customer satisfaction6Govt while creating BSNL PSU in 2000 gave lot of promises that it will do all help and take care the needs of PSU but practically there is no such thing either in CASH OR KIND7Even for CAPEX and OPEX BSNL is struggling year after year and atleast the SPECTRUM CHARGES WHICH HAVE BEEN THE HIGHEST PAID BY BSNL shuold be refunded so that it will be on rails and run with full steam tocontinue public patronage which will not be allowed to be done by the private telcos who are waiting for the BSNL not to be a serious contestant against their interest

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Darshan December 25 2013 402 pm 402 PM

Ohh so its due to govthellip$shyiexcl| on the govt due to which bsnl going in red sheetshellip

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shekhar December 25 2013 908 am 908 AM

Make it private sell it Bharti Reilance anybody Free it from Red tapism ITS and Line man culture

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kalyankar December 29 2013 938 pm 938 PM

BOSS DONT WORRY WHEN BSNL IS SOLD TO PRIVATE FIRMS U WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE CALLS WITH PAISAShelliphelliphelliphellipBUT WITH BULK OF RUPEES REQUIRE TO MAKE AND RECIEVE CALLS

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sanjay April 10 2014 205 pm 205 PM

u r right sir

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sanjay April 10 2014 206 pm 206 PM

u r absolutely right kalyankarhellip

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Nazeer Ahmed December 25 2013 905 am 905 AM

The suggesstion given by MrS Chetan are good but Babus at top level of BSNL need changed in their mindset they are shirkers donot want any responsibility and only want handful of salary Other operators sit on the footpath and selltheir SIM card with a xerox machine copy your ID proof with the xerox machine and give cards Can this be done by the BSNL Babus The activation will be done within hours but in BSNL they ask so many question to issue SIMAddress proof apart from Driving licence or PAN card This is how BSNL is sinking

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Debabrata Dutta Kolkata December 25 2013 316 am 316 AM

For last one month missed call alert of BSNL Kolkata is not working on my numberhelliphellip any body facing the same problem has the missed call alert number 17010 been changed I have diverted to 17010 under not reachablecondition but its still not working in Kolkata Kindly reply helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

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Kaushik Roy December 25 2013 942 am 942 AM

yes for me also BSNL MCA is not working and I diverted to 17010

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Kaushik Roy December 24 2013 937 pm 937 PM

Majority people will not use BSNL as primary numbers since its network goes down on a regular basis and one can not rely on it 100 specially single SIM usersOnly for roamers and travellers BSNL is useful for its great coverage I have seen many places in rural areas only BSNL signal is available and no other operator even AshyVOshyID are not there In places like Kolkata people can rely onother network than BSNL But for rural places BSNL is a good optionI used BSNL as my secondary number but I switched off the number majority times when I am in Kolkata I use it only for roaming with plan 199 which gives 180 days roaming incoming free except DelhiMumbai and Jammu ampKashmir and believe me in roaming I did not face much problem with BSNL

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BP Singh December 24 2013 928 pm 928 PM

Links of websites for lodging your Compliant amp Grievances against BSNL and there by improving its work culture

httpmisbsnlcoinpgsinternetpgwebregnaspBefore lodging any complaint to Higher authority make sure that you have approached middle amp lower Mgmt Keep proofs of it

Government Department Related Complaintshttpwwwpgportalgovin

RTI Onlinehttpwwwrtionlinegovin

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sanjay April 10 2014 223 pm 223 PM

BP singhrsquo ji why BSNL is not giving Adrsquos like using mobile more is harmful to brainears as medically prooved while Landline is harmless please create a awareness of use of Landline

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vivek December 24 2013 609 pm 609 PM

The retailer of bsnl dorsquot know what is MNP and what is current tariff in bsnl Then how satishfy a customer that there tariff is best The main reason of bsnl to go in decreasing revenue is that the customer not attracted toward bsnlbecause they dorsquot know what is current scheme of BSNL If you go private shop and ask them for sim then they would not suggest for bsnl If you ask for bsnl then they told that call rate is costly you can not get recharge at each shopsound quality is not good and without asking they suggest you about scheme of private service provider What is reason that they not appreciate bsnl because bsnl not give sufficient share as private give Second thing is BSNL customercare If your balance deduced in wrong way and if you complain for it then they told you that I dorsquot have right to refund your money but they will never tell that I am trying to refund your money by telling appropriate authority Insteadthey give email id and told you that you can contact to appropriate authority by sending email If you told them please sir send me email address then they told sir I donrsquot have right send to sms if you contact that email id you willalways got permanently failure of email

So you can think how good customer care service of BSNL

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Arun K G December 24 2013 852 pm 852 PM

BSNL is giving 55 of MRP on every rechargeTOP up to retailers which is higher among all private operators

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mr rai December 24 2013 541 pm 541 PM

bsnl is run by corrupt babus and ministers hence it will always make huge loss and suck common man blood money

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Arun K G December 24 2013 854 pm 854 PM

Can you tell any goverment public enterprise which donrsquot have any ind of curreption

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AA December 24 2013 523 pm 523 PM

BSNL is the legacy of the govt they will neither abondone nor let it function it is a source of corruption I am sure BSNL will continue to survive for the selfish motivies of the babus

Unless QoS and accountability improves nothing else is possible the effective way to use bsnl is to use it as backup (secoundary) number Bsnl is not in the business race hence forget about drastic improvement The least you expectthe happier you are

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rahul December 24 2013 457 pm 457 PM

bsnl plan validity scheme should change out it gives only 6 month validity to compete than others private companies gives near bout 3 years validity and after time goes on validity automatically increased but in bsnl validity game islike a supari killer who contract for a money and have a crime just like bsnl also make compulsion of validity recharge to keep active also sound quality of a call is bull shit and several drawbacks must removed

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Umesh Singh December 24 2013 250 pm 250 PM

1) BSNL should be allowed to give political parties funding so that it can get tailored made policies like other private operator

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narapareddyp December 24 2013 237 pm 237 PM

In my district(anantapurap) BSNL have 3G network only in few areaswe want more 3G NETWORK

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D Rajendra December 24 2013 135 pm 135 PM

13 yrs have been passed after merger from DOT to BSNL(PSU) but no corporate work culture is devloped among the employeesThis may be one of the reasonsSo first step to make BSNL profitable to motive and wtrngthen themarketing culture

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RKrishna Rao December 24 2013 105 pm 105 PM

The employees and their unionsassociations of BSNL had continuously raised issues concerning the development and expansion of the services Much more to be done to improve the services The mindshyset of the employees needs to befurther improved to face the present challenges and for ensuring a better service to the customers They should always remember that they are important stakeshyholders of the company and at the service of the nation and its people Theyshould educate the employees to seek the support of people for strengthening BSNL

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Abhijit December 24 2013 1256 pm 1256 PM

BSNL can come in profit by charging heavily to its customers who are already paying more than the service quality

hellip just joking as that will end BSNL

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Ganesh December 24 2013 1245 pm 1245 PM

Hey very good pointsI agree with anti corruption measures I bought a new BSNL landline and the line men came 1 week late and they didnrsquot even give the line properly (no dial tone) and when I said thanks they were like give us some money (instead ofthanks) I gave them 20 rupees and they were like who wants those I just told them that I didnrsquot have any Then they went away leaving that 20 But even after 1 week there was no dial tone I then had to complaint to the officials aboutthe line and then they fixed it after 7 days

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Sunil December 24 2013 1228 pm 1228 PM

Infrastructure and network of BSNL are good in comparison to other operators But only the thing to advertise the product tariffand services through employee working in BSNL Employees are only waiting for perks salary hike andother benifits they do not know the latest product and tariff of BSNL Employee working at customer service centre use to watch the time for lunch and closing the officeSome employeesofficers who are not working and even notsigning in files are enjoying service but few dedicated employeesofficer who are working hard are facing inquiries served with charge sheets due to complaints made by fellow lazy employees and contractorsupplier who wish to earnfake money without working Strict discipline is must

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Dr GL Kamei December 24 2013 1210 pm 1210 PM

Chethan S I do appreciate your suggestion c per c My Dad too serving in BSNL in Gr A executive post who I rely everything but he mention about BSNL downfall for which I am worried I am working in a med Institute after my Postshygraduationand my brother would be a med graduate very soon My Brother refuse to use BSNL Product for its poor performances I would upload comments later on

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seema December 24 2013 1207 pm 1207 PM

Lack of strong customer support is ofcourse a reason for the poor performance of BSNL but as indians we should understand BSNLs social commitment it is not profit oriented alone unlike other private operatorsSo do support BSNL LONG LIVE BSNL

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kalyankar December 29 2013 942 pm 942 PM

THANKS SEMMA GOOD COMMENTShellip

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sanjay April 10 2014 214 pm 214 PM

u r right seema

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KK Chaudhary December 24 2013 1033 am 1033 AM

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Condition of BSNL is like Nai in Thakurrsquos Barat

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Vishal Jaiswal December 24 2013 906 am 906 AM

I agree with ur views MrKumar but to cut the losses some decisons in a balanced manner has to taken like VRS for 50+ or 55+ employes to reduce no of employees Use of private agencies to market their product etc etc For a PSUprofit generation is never a motive but generating such a huge loss is also not acceptable

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krishan kumar December 24 2013 234 pm 234 PM

Vishal Jaiswal Can anyone think why BSNL in loss not because it can not make profit

VRS can reduce 50 salary expenditure of BSNL which is about 7700 Cr But giving VRS is like rdquo throw your parents out of your home because they are aged and not capable to contribute as much as they had contributed intheir time for the homerdquo

If BSNL Headed by ambani or others they can throw them even profit was reduced

BSNL is going to install GSM BTS naxalite area for our Defence forces not for profit BSNL know that to run GSM BTS in naxalite area is very difficult and incurred huge expenditure

BSNL going to ring connectivity to East area where revenue is in few crores not for profit but for the people of the country

It all depends on us rdquo If we want BSNL to live who act for the country peoplerdquoIndian Politician doing their best effort to sell BSNL to fill their pockets

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kmalakondaiah December 24 2013 838 am 838 AM

sir i appreciate your analasis and suggestions for improvementi am adding following points ror reaching profits1) attituderespectfriendly atmospherepatience listiningcaringimportancehelping naturepositive approachgood bodylanguage towards custmers is very very very essentials and invitableBSNL is now improving stage when comparedto PampT and DOT but not reached 100 to reach 100 behaviour traing and counselling is required to BSNL employees2) next quality of service shy borodband modemstelephone instrumentsdropwire etc topquality is to be choosen instead of poor qualitythe PampT and DOT slogan lowest price is to be forgotten and high quality is to be kept in mind whileprocuring stores3)maintinance of BTS(cell towers)shy is to be improved by provisionmaintainnig generatorsbattery sets 4)attending brodband complints on top priority5)the average age of bsnl employee is 50 yrsso the existing young jtorsquos and ttas clerksare to be posted in custmer service centers and cell towers maintinaceOr by hiring youngsters between 18shy25 years the 5 lakh employees come down to 25 lakhs now it will comedown to 2 lakhs by 2015BSNL existance is very much essential for the safety our country and to arrest private operators earning money from custemersfor example when the introduction of mobiles by private operators you know they charged for incoming andoutgoing calls at very very high rateswhen BSNL allowed to start mobiles they tariff come down and all the custmers were benifitedfinally one common problem facing by all the custemers from all the telecom operatots is shy some amount is deducting without knowledgeconsent of custemers by means of content providers servicesvalue added servicesall custemersare suffering and bitterly complining on this cheating processThis is highly objectionable and against to indian constitutionso i request all the custemers and eminent people to take all stps to arrest this cheatingi specially requestsupreme court lawers to takeup this issue and stop this cheating

kmalakondaiahBSNL employeevisakhapatnam andhrapradesh

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DrSrinagesh Poduri June 3 2014 1050 am 1050 AM

Dear Malakondaiah garu I am now at Australia If you remember I met you last month I am from Bhimili I purchased a postpaid connection with International Roaming after reaching here when I tried to activate it says thatthe SIM card registration failed Could you please check if the card has been activated for international roaming Thank you

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krishan kumar December 24 2013 1247 am 1247 AM

I want to share some point about BSNL

1 BSNL is feeding 254 Lakh family in india where as other private operator having 5 to 10 of this 70 employees are more than 50+ can they exist in other telecom company2 BSNL still running Landline services in rural areas and facing a loss of 10000 Cr per year where no other operate even think to go in dream3 BSNL still running more than 1000 exchanges where monthly revenue is about 5000 to 6000 but bill of electricity and security in about one lakh per month4 BSNL is giving broadband services in thousands of rural exchange where other operator not even ready to edge network5 In my district BSNL have 3G network in all taluka where only few operator have 3G network in district only I am living in city where Asia largest refinery exist6 Can you imagine the tariff rates AirtelVodafone and Idea If BSNL not in market7 BSNL have its connectivity in lehladakh amarnath siachen etc only for the person who protect our country can touch with their family in such tough condition

there are so many points otherhelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip which makes BSNL for country

If BSNL wants to be become in profit it can be done in 6 monthshelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

1 Reduce employees strength upto 30000 and make unemployment for about 220 lakh employees Airtel having revenue 40000 cr having only 25000 employees3 Close all rural exchanges and cut them from indian economy and save about 10000 Cr per year This is enough to make BSNL in profit4 Close all 3G BTS in rural where it can unable to generate revenue equal to its electricity bill to running the BTS5 Close all BTS in remote area and make Indian defence force to suffer

there are hundreds of point other which BSNL can do to become in profit

I agree BSNL has lots of drawback but imagine the condition of India without BSNL

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Tharun George December 24 2013 815 am 815 AM

BSNL can do the following practical things to get profitable1 Close the landline service and replace all landline with WLL phones For broadband replace with 3GI am telling this because in my area BSNL is not giving both landline or broadband saying line not available2 BSNL is getting paid by UOF fund from Gov to put BTS in remote areas and nexal areas3 In Kerala Idea has more tower in rural area than BSNL Almost all towers of Idea are now 3G But BSNL has only started expanding 3G in 3 years

BSNL is not the only organization with large employees Look at railway largest Gov employer in India Still its running without much loss

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AK December 24 2013 1125 am 1125 AM

Railway has incurred Rs60000 cr loss

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Tharun George December 24 2013 235 pm 235 PM

Indian Railways(From wikipedia)Revenue Increase to INR 12568 billion (US$19 billion) (2012ndash13)Net income Increase to INR 1041 billion (US$16 billion) (2012ndash13)

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Pravat Kumar Das December 24 2013 1256 pm 1256 PM

Very good point about BSNL thanks

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rangarajan December 24 2013 308 pm 308 PM

sirBSNL has a huge work force to be reduced by VRS (VOL REmoval scheme) already i informed authority to work with 30000 to get profit but CMD is calm cos he is retiring in June 2014rangarajan

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A RAO December 24 2013 423 pm 423 PM

All private operators do business BSNL gives Services to public BSNL wants profit it can come with in a year profit by doing business like private opertorsBSNL moto is to give best possible services to public in every corner ofIndia and it is ready to give restore immediately the communication when disastrous rains floods etc occures then the private operators for example a Appreciation letter from Govt of India received for restoration communicationservices at Uttarkand in june 2013 when a big disastrous happened

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sanjay April 10 2014 216 pm 216 PM

good comments sir

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kalyankar December 29 2013 945 pm 945 PM

SIR GOOD COMMENTShelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

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sand December 23 2013 1112 pm 1112 PM

chetan

My idea is that bsnl should have tailor made plans and also special offers for customers who make good amount of rechargesA gift would always make a consumer feel important and he would stick around

Postpaid is the greatest revenue generatorBring down the security deposits at par or lower than private firmsCouple it with the fair and transparent billing of bsnl and they will be instant hit

Have a greatly responsible cust care that responds

Cut down broadband prices now instead of doing it wen maybe 4g brings down tariffs and people have already migratedcustomer loyalty always has its own magic

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sand December 23 2013 1107 pm 1107 PM

Chetan

In my mail apart from the complaints i had mentioned these same things to the CMD as some ideasI dont know if he took any notice of that but since his office acted on the complaint i guess he took notice

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sand December 23 2013 1104 pm 1104 PM

chetan

I have been complaining for the last 2 yrs to fix the bsnlsupportFinally last month i decided to escalate matters furtherI sent my complaint to the CMD of BSNL with the kerala circle head in ccThis was my final attemptIt workedI got a mail back from CMD SECTTAlso complaints of mine were being called up and followed up by the circle head or someone in keralaIf you dont trust me i could put the screen shot of the reply i got hereI think all bsnlcustomers should try thisI even offered the CMD the recorded call with customer care which gave me a 53 min hold timeI think since we choose to vent our anger here and there an dnot take it up in the official way we get no replies or fixesIf every consumer facing the issue instead complains and follows it up and makes sure it gets heard then yes we candefinitly make changes

I ask every bsnl customer to do the same and then we will see the changesDont give up by porting or adjustGet ur voice heard

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k thirmal reddy December 23 2013 1036 pm 1036 PM

Here I should mention thatIf there is any PSU in India without itrsquos own responsible and accountable top managementthat is the one and only BSNLIt is a peculiar situation in BSNLEven after 13 years of its formation it still workslike a Govtdept Definitely there are a handful of top managers of impeccable integrity and concern for itwho can make things happen The best trained executives and prime assets and latest infra are the core strengths They should notbe underestimated The non performing assets to be made performing through innovative methods There are constraintsProfit making is not the ultimate visionbut Hope BSNL shall survive and come up with flags to enhance value inthe hands of customers and save the people of India from the clutches of private coSif Govt has the will to serve the people through BSNL

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b m b December 23 2013 1025 pm 1025 PM

UPA Govt should release all Dues pending from DOT some schemes to be announces like Ex MOS Paswanji schemes of Rs500connectionOfficialsofficers of GOVT should use BSNLHON MOC can look in bottle neck GSMnetworks needs of BSNL

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Vikas agarwal December 23 2013 956 pm 956 PM

I do not think now BSNL can compete with Private operatorsOne SDE of BSNL namely Sailash yadav of Faridabad earning black money and nobody is taking any action against himhe is working in tax section

So if condition like these continues and strict action if not taken then people will fed up from BSNl

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Darshan Malu December 23 2013 944 pm 944 PM

It should be published in newspapers media everywherehellipso that RK upadhya will know abt ithellipor your efforts going 2 b utter wastehellipplz possible mail this post to media mails like to TOI or NDTV or ET or anywhete possiblei amsure they will appreciate u r efforts and will publish themhellip

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Ducts December 23 2013 940 pm 940 PM

Nothing is going to improveIndia is a country where the top officials r oldhellipu can c our pmhellipeven with bsnl same thinghellipthat rk upadhay i think can even not operate his email id i think bcuz after sending so many email that man doesnt even have sense ofreplyinghellipuck u r company n sry not company actually u n ur corrupt teamhellipSaala samajhta nahi its nly our indiarsquos losshellipif u c ATampThellipDue 2 its QoS people dont even think to go for TshymobilehellipIndian government koh bhi samajtha nahi to appoint youngsters in such job by seeing what he actually knows n with gud marketting skillshellipWTF even after having pan india 3G lincense one would had taken advantage of it n make company to move forwardhellipRk upadhay u just take retirement u r mind age has no more ideas its time u r mind needs SANYAS

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Rishabh December 23 2013 1041 pm 1041 PM

+100000000

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Akhil Mohan December 23 2013 913 pm 913 PM

My experienceFor the last two weeks there is no internet in my 3G connection It connects but no data transfer takes place Registered a complaint with the no 9400000198 an waited for their call for 1 week but no one called me and today i received amessage saying your complaint has been closedHow will a company like this ever make profit If govt tries to bail out BSNL i may even try to go to court to prevent that because public dont need to pay for their wrong doings and inefficency

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derik December 23 2013 843 pm 843 PM

BSNL IS THE BEST IN KERALA AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE THE MARKET LEADER VERY SOONhelliphellipI LOVE BSNLhelliphellip

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LShobha December 23 2013 812 pm 812 PM

I would like to comment on corruption Eradicating corruption should be TOP DOWN approach and not BOTTOM UP approach Corruption cannot be cleansed from lineman to CMD but the other way around BSNL is a governmentcompany and obviously it will be a reflection of how our government is being run ndash scam ridden ndash Coalgate 2G Maharashtra dam scandalCommonwealth games scandal Robert Vadra Scandal mining scandal etc etc As the sayinggoes ndash ldquoYathah Raja Thathah PrajardquoBSNL has its share of scams within ndash awarding of contracts by top management to Boston Consulting Group appointing brand ambassadors to Ms Preity Zinta Deepika Padukone without any tangible result Perhaps the biggest ofthem all is the BSNL CDMA services Crores of public money invested without any revenueAs for the employees it is better to offer VRS to all the DOT recruited employees and hand over the organisation to the BSNL recruited youngsters and make them more accountableFinally BSNL should continue to exist in the larger interests of the countryrsquos security The government can not allow the Mittals Ambanis Tatas and Birlas to pocket crores of rupees money to gift aeroplanes to their wives and celebrateglitzy and glamorous wedding anniversaries and build Antilias with helicopter landing pads

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joseph joy christopher December 23 2013 747 pm 747 PM

BSNL Lags in1)proper plans2)no permanent tariff some plan came within 2 weekrsquos it will be removed eg 12rs roaming pack3)bad customer service4) even using gprs packs is not allowed in tn circle on black out days even with pack it is chargable

Prorsquos1)core network in all arearsquos

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SAHIL December 23 2013 703 pm 703 PM

BSNL CAN NEVER AND WILL NEVER IMPROVE OR CHANGE BECAUSE ITS RUN BY CORRUPT CRONIES OF PRIVATE OPERATORS AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS WHOSE ONLY AGENDA IS TO DESTROY BSNLAND BENEFIT PRIVATE OPERSTORS BSNL IS ALREADY ANOTHER AIR INDIA IN MAKING ULTIMATELY BSNL LOSSES WILL BE FUNDED FROM INDIAN CONSUMERS AND TAX PAYERS HARD EARNEDMONEY BUT AFTER 2014 ELECTIONS MODI WILL CLEAN UP THESE CORRUPT PEOPLE AND BSNL WILL IMPROVE

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Panditji December 23 2013 621 pm 621 PM

It is completely true that BSNL does not care its customers I surrendered a BSNL land line connection in Muzaffarpur Bihar only because of its employees After many request to its concern officials (even to higher official BSNLMuzaffarpur) no proper step was taken for a long period but every bishymonth i was served with a suitable bill and finally i unwillingly surrendered the connection This is what BSNL officials care its customers If this situation remainscontinued BSNL will never go in profit

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Satheesh December 23 2013 606 pm 606 PM

Myself is a BSNL employee I think the real problem lies with the TOP management Top level management is still DOT staff and deputation to BSNL Most of them are least bothered about the future of the Company and they are onlyburocrats and no professionalism which is the need of the hour They are not at all accountable for their activities and not ready to accept the feedback given by other stake holders such as employees franchisees etc Only proffessionalmanagement can rescue the organisation

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js December 23 2013 833 pm 833 PM

The pathetic state of the BSNL is purely because of the very bad attitude of the employees Employees are only interested in salary hike for every pay commission and spend least time in office If you want to see the attitude of theemployees you should go to an exchange or customer care center As a BSNL employee did you recommend any of your family or relatives to use BSNL product Do you know all details of BSNL products provided in your circleFirst BSNL employee should confidently market the product with their friends and relatives and they are the prime source of brand building They will blame BSNL then how they will be able to build the brand 2lakhs employeesif they try their best then BSNL can be profitable within 6months Customers need BSNL service but if BSNL can reach customers then people will always opt for it BSNL has the best tariff plans best coverage and no hiddencharges So only attitude of the employees should change not higher officials It is just an excuse to runaway from responsibilities by blaming higher officials This is what always BSNL employees union do

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Akhil Mohan December 23 2013 915 pm 915 PM

No body wants BSNL to improve Please shutdownhellip

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js December 24 2013 954 am 954 AM

AkhilBefore commenting on this you should know India first 90 percentage of mobile users do not want 3G or 4G or any data use They use mobile only to contact near and dear ones BSNL is the only service provider whoprovided service in rural areas small panchayats naxal affected areas and even Jammu and Kashmir where our soldiers are totally depending on BSNL network to contact their near and dear ones Pvt providers only look atprofit and even betray nation for the sake of money All defence orgs can only depend on BSNL and not any other service provider In UK customers did an agitation against vodafone on not paying the tax But in Indiacustomers will get more attracted by just the brand name and since it is a foreign operator and even though they do all tax frauds

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SS December 24 2013 1131 am 1131 AM

I still believe that vodafone tax case is completely non sense When vodafone acquired hutch there was no such law to tax transactions between companies incorporated outside india (the same supreme court ruled)Now they changed law to extract money by hook or by crook Is this a way

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krishna December 23 2013 516 pm 516 PM

Sometimes the strength becomes weakness The same is happening in BSNL ie Excess staff (Comparing with Private operators) is one of the reason for loss The management should take some bold decisions like giving VRSminimising retirement age from 60 to 58 (as major CPSU had the retirement age as 58)

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Chandra Sekhar Mandal December 23 2013 430 pm 430 PM

Previously i was using BSNL because it was giving 8 GB 2G [although i was getting 3G speed every time i recharged on my sim] data for just Rs219 for 30 days But after they unified 2G and 3G packs i did no recharge on that BSNL

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sim and its validity is also over I was a BSNL customer just because data purposeBSNL GO TO HELLhellip

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id December 23 2013 826 pm 826 PM

still its cheaper than others tariff

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deril December 23 2013 851 pm 851 PM

poor

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BatMAn December 23 2013 430 pm 430 PM

The funniest thing i have noticed isWhen ever Electricity in my area is down the same timethe BSNL network signal will be zero after a few minutes signal will be restored(Even if Electricity is Restored or not)i think they are have to start the DG Manuallyor No proper UPShellipif we are in a call the call will be doped Bsnl Karnataka Circle

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Rama December 23 2013 332 pm 332 PM

SaurabhHow did you know that BSNL has given out contract to expand netwrok in north indiaif you have any other source than tt and economic times would you please share it

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SS December 23 2013 322 pm 322 PM

This isnrsquot a new news This was expected and it happened Thanks to the worst management of bsnl In my circle up east there are fairly large no Of customers but ironically only 42 are active as per trairsquos report On the other handvodafone has 9970 active users and its 2g services are superior among all here My father uses bsnl only for 151shy400 mins tariff and would surely dump it if they ditch that scheme

Data services are worst than hell in bsnl For 20 days of month 2g data remains down and 3g goes down many times a day

Interconnectivity problems in bsnl are not uncommon Last time they blocked calls to vodafone for 2 months and only bsnl customers suffered I use airtel in delhi and its awesome in quality of service No single issue to complain aboutIn up east i use idea because of its robust 3g network all over the state Bsnl must to learn from them

But bsnl in far more superior than tata docomo reliance gsm aircel Lets hope that they improve

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Adil December 23 2013 950 pm 950 PM

ss i always use to agree to you but this time in climax i deny to your comment bsnl is worst than all operator whether it is docomo aircel reliance in fact uninor is far better than bsnlhellipthat is why uninor is making positive cashflow where as bsnl dying

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Aam Admi December 23 2013 221 pm 221 PM

ldquo8 Shut down loss making telephone exchanges or the ones which bring less revenue ndash many people opt for landline just due to broadband benefits through such exchanges (mainly rural) 3G data cards at special prices could beencouraged at such placesrdquo

As you already know 3G data cards are not a substitute to wired broadband I pay around 1000 INR for a broadband connection while living in a rural area Irsquom ready to pay more if BSNL can offer a 1 Mbps unlimited without FUPplan I keep my line only for broadband(a lot of people)

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Chethan S December 23 2013 713 pm 713 PM

Though I enjoy good quality Beam Fiber connection here in Hyderabad my familyrsquos situation is like yours back in my home town Our home falls in a BSNL Rural exchangersquos limits There particularly in the rainy season due tothunderstorms BSNL officials power off the telephone exchange during nights and even during weekends as an anticipatory measure depriving us of broadband connectivity Having a night unlimited connection we find itextremely the difficult to use internet within data usage limits As you said 3G data card is certainly not an alternative to wired broadband but if service is not good 3G at special rates would be welcome

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Tharun George December 23 2013 153 pm 153 PM

The only reason I am on BSNL is for cheap 3G and good 2G coverage All other things of BSNL are worst Call rates are not that low 2G internet is pathetic cannot even open google It takes 45min to get connected to customer careNetwork busy low quality sound

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prithvi December 23 2013 336 pm 336 PM

Exactly +1 BSNL

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Sugu December 23 2013 835 pm 835 PM

Tharun Well thatrsquos really surprising coz I have never faced such situation once when i had a problem ie Rs5 being deducted every week for no reason I went to their Thirunakkara Office and complained 2 days later Ireceived an SMS saying that my issue had been solved and even refunded me About the tariff in my knowledge it is providing cheapest base tariff among the operators i know I may be wrong and about 2G speed i always geta speed above 10kBshere is my speed test 2G httpwwwspeedtestnetmyshyresulta674883594

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Tharun George December 24 2013 827 am 827 AM

BSNL never deducted nay of my money As far as tariff go it is as high as private Most plans are 15ps and only mithram plan has 13ps STV are also costly

10KBs is very very low Your ping is very bad PING 903 ms Try opening gmail with it I have tested all operators 2G speed in Kerala Here are the resultDocomoshy 236kbpsAircelshy 225kbps (Shutdown)Relianceshy 225kbpsIdea ndash 170kbpsVodafone ndash 140kbpsAirtel ndash 100kbpsBSNL ndash 100kbps

For 3G BSNL has speed between 1shy2mbps But Idea 3G gives 6mbps at most time I use Reliance for 2G internet and calling Rs 74 STV gives 1p2sec for 6 months Lowest tariff in India

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Tharun George December 24 2013 830 am 830 AM

By the way you went to Kottayam office to get Rs 5 back Once I had gone there to pay Rs 4 bill for landline They laughed at me and asked how much Bus fare I spend to get there

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sugu December 24 2013 220 pm 220 PM

I said above 10kBs And it deducted Rs5 for 4 weeks I did not say anything about the refund but still they did and about 3G after 1030 I always get only about 50shy70kBs at home But at the morning it flies of to500shy700kBs when I went to my friendrsquos home at kumaranellor therersquos even H+ and I downloaded 270MB under 8 minuteshellipBus fare lol Vadavathoor to Old bus standhellip 6rshellip lolhellipBTW only 4rs landline what was your plan I hardly use tye landline the connection is only to avail broadband

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Tharun George December 24 2013 700 pm 700 PM

Vadavathoor We are so close yet meet online I am here just before Manarcad I most signal from Vadavathoor tower

I used to pay for 1 year for landline + broadband Some times exceed and they send Rs 2 or Rs 4 bills by postal Postage itself is Rs 4 for them

Disconnected BSNL broadband and landline this month I have Asianet broadband and Relaince 2G If you are using BSNL Broadband better switch to Asianet 4mbps broadband plans

I used to get 3G signal from BSNL tower at vadavathoor But 2 months ago BSNL added 3G to Rubber Board tower BTW I get signal for all private operators from Vadavathoor Does Docomo have tower atVadavathoor I am complaining for past 5 years to them about no coverage

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Sugu December 25 2013 527 pm 527 PM

Ah I think not Actually where does Docomo have towers My home is 2KM away from Thirunakkara Mostly I walk By the time I reach home BSNL will have switched through 3Towers (all 3G)while Docomo still remains connected to Thirunakkara I just get 1bar of range here and if I go to the hall no coverage Even when I went to my friends house 5km away its the same towerhellipIf you use android then download Network Signal Info it gives all details about that tower

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Riju VV December 23 2013 1029 pm 1029 PM

Bsnl kerala already introduced new customer care 9400000198No need to wait just call and enter your number They will call you back

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Tharun George December 24 2013 828 am 828 AM

You have to wait for there call back Which will take 30min ndash 1 hour

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Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 832 pm 832 PM

They never called me back for my complaint

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Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 830 pm 830 PM

Idea is now giving 1GB data for Rs 123 as a special offer

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Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 144 pm 144 PM

BSNL network is dead in Kaikhali near Kolkata Airport Area for last 10 daysIt seems that BSNL network is dead in so many places of Kolkata and they are not aware of BSNL fault and it forces people to use non BSNL SIMs

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Partha December 23 2013 842 pm 842 PM

Kaushik I live in Haldiram area near kaikhali and I did not face the problem you mentioned even for one day What was your exact location is it just beside Airport area

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Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 1054 pm 1054 PM

Partha There are few towers surrounding Kaikhali near your area haldiramHaldiram cell info display is KENDRIYA VIHAR (ABC) which is working fine and I get its signal from Outside my home but inside its stength is NIL Only I get cell info KAMALAPUR(ABC) ampDASODRONE(ABC) with 1 bar from balcony with fluctuation every 1 minuteBut the tower with KAIKHALI(ABC) cell info is not working from last 10 days which is the nearest tower from my house which is situated at Main road of VIP

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Kaushik Roy December 26 2013 1119 pm 1119 PM

Finally BSNL cell info (KAIKHALI ABC) tower started working from tonight after almost 12 days

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Saurabh December 23 2013 127 pm 127 PM

Since they gave tender for expansion in North zone I hope that their service will get better in Haryana and 3G will become available by October but none of the things happened Instead their 2G network which was worst before gettingmore and more worst here The indoor signal in my area in whatever house you check is nil to 1 bar only Those living near the BTS also face call drops You canrsquot call without voice cracking The network is just getting to bottom andno one to take care I have BSNL SIM which I recharge only once in a year with Rs34 validity extension to keep it alive as I keep SIM to check service quality

Whenever you call customer care the IVR says ldquoYour extimated hold time is 35 minutes 27 secrdquo and always over it Their CC is complete dumb and people at CSC are just illiterate who has only one answer for all the question ldquoBhaiyeh toh upar waley log decide karenge tabhi upgrade hoga Ab tumhara signal nahi aata toh hum kya karerdquo Their quality is sucking to the bottom at 60shy70 places Their VLR data shows that not even 10 lakh out of 30 lakh subscribersusing it Now you can understand why

Thanks to the private companies like Vodafone and Idea and Airtel also who have ubiquitous network and even after having 3shy4 times of BSNL subscribers their network works like charm and 99 uptime Thanks to Idea for providing3G to city towns villages and everywhere I went it was there Today I donrsquot have a single contact which is of BSNL and those I have are ported out to AVoId only

Videocon has started expansion and now have more active customers than BSNL in Haryana and soon they will have mre than that of Tata and Reliance Their is a limit to stupidity and BSNLhad crossed it since it started The conditionhere is even worst then what it was in 2004 It seems that BSNL is handling 500 customers per tower here which is chocking network all the day Few weeks back their network kept dead for 3 days So those who are on bsnl are losingeverything

I hope they donrsquot launch 3G in towns as their 2G signal is 1 bar on 1800 MHz What it will be on 2100 MHz 3G bandhellip They should save money and never launch 3G in towns in Haryana A slap to BSNL face from me

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John Thomas December 23 2013 116 pm 116 PM

What ever the writer suggested will never been going to implement I am been very long investigating BSNL policies and methodsi found that bsnl is administered by very corrupted ones Inefficient officers are getting on the top The

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main reason why people donrsquot choose bsnl is thateven though if there is a tower nearby to ones homeit is hard to find signal inside their home Government still holds bsnl nothing for but to maintain a security level in communicationof strategic important ones

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Ramesh Darji December 23 2013 1140 am 1140 AM

Dear Sanjay I want address issue of tata docomo not BSNL BSNL is govt company and some can understand but what happen to TataIn gujarat they have 3G but surprisingly they stop expanding 3G coverage Worst ever they switch off many sites in rural areas and highways In gujarat late entrant Uninor and videocon even doing better than tataIts worst ever they offers and schemes Their offer is changing so fast that customer lost trust on themStill they are riding on photon+ in maharastra and mumbai but their time is now over They are not realising adoption of 3G and still their data package is much higherOn the other hand realince and other 3G operator providing much cheaper 3G 156 now for realince 3G 299 for 2GB for MTNL and others are offering goodReliance Joi will launch service in short period and I think BSNL and other private operator who is not much serious about customer choice will be finished

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jz December 23 2013 1126 am 1126 AM

bsnl is cheap and best but didnrsquot know how to encash it

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Vamsi December 30 2013 1009 am 1009 AM

Hi frnd hellipthx for the article and my view was BSNL has a robust network to serve india better than any private company but The main and only obstacle was their employs hellipthe higher authority should initiate necessary steps todeploy corporate style to bsnlhellipbecz we all know that working hours of bsnl employs are not up to the mark so make them(Employes) work and serve better

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2500 Data Entry Operator getting payment 2000 to 2500 and like this a Broadband maintenance work done in 1000 to 2200 Whereas State Govt paid there worker Watchman or Peon Rs 4500 Data Entry Operatorshy Rs 5200 to 8000Technical worker 7500 to 9500 Today in this payment can a person maintain his family and can give his child education Corruption is only for their survival Now days if you find minimum 70 connection of BSNL Land Linesubscriber are getting connection giving extra moneyNext thing is marketing DSA (Direct Sales Agent) appointed for Marketing But in BSNL there are no auto mechanism to give payment no rewards for performance and no promotion to experience person like other organization (LICInsurance and Finance Sector etc) DSAs are not getting payment properly Even 1 year to 2 year payment pending Officers are showing that they are saving BSNL money by breaking DSAs payment To pass a Bill required so manysignatures Every signature creates corruption Last 2 to 3 year it develops gradually There are no rewards for better work When a DSA do better that time Officer Cutoff his bill 20 30 40 and even 50 according to better workIn such a situation how can marketing developUDAAN CFA Marketing wing of BSNL doing nothing only outdated Data entry of Leads Officer and worker engaged in wing expenditure huge amount in this head They are entering data which is already settled If you see data 80to 90 data entered are outdated Actually Project Udaan is very good mechanism but nobody utilized it from top to bottom it is work only Pen and Paper Top Level Officer and Management are neglecting in their duty They are notwatching work only wastage money of BSNL getting payments BSNL give SMS ldquo BSNL in your door steprdquo when a customer giving SMS for a LandLine or Broadband that go to cold store for 2 to 3 months Within this periodcustomer coming to Exchange or office and solving problem in their ways After 2 to 3 month SMS forwarded to field unit SA(Sales Associate) I think 60 of Udaan SA (Sales Associate) not using their ID they have no computerknowledge this work done by STL (Sales Team Leader)

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Rudresha January 12 2014 1029 pm 1029 PM

HiFriendsBSNL having some weakness is follows1) Cheif managing director to group shyD employ counting there days for super annuation2) all employs are high paid for there work3) almost all the time BSNL work is non productive4) even after 13 years BSNLstill now not having clear and futuristic HR policy5) BSNL Must practice preventive and protective maintenance for quality serviceoveral Bsnl realy doing good with all demerits

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ajay January 12 2014 822 am 822 AM

I think its issue should be resolved They should opt or leave bsnl Second is lack of corporate culture Third is group c amp d unions which only do vote politics over services

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subham January 11 2014 645 pm 645 PM

USSD based services activation is one of the importantswhich BSNL lacks most

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Kaushik Roy January 9 2014 1005 pm 1005 PM

BSNL started online EshyAUCTION of its 75 premium numbers for all circlesThe prices vary from 5000 to 25000A little way of some earning from the loss making GIANT

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will January 3 2014 940 pm 940 PM

Well staff thinks its a goverment run company so they take everyting for granted i thnk bsnl should be pravatised now

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Ramesh dhaker kanera gata January 2 2014 543 pm 543 PM

Bsnl the best network

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aravind January 2 2014 1224 am 1224 AM

BSNL is state owned company ie peoplersquos telecom companyOthers are private profit making companiesIf BSNL is not in market then the call rate would be increasing day by dayas in the case of petroleum industryPrivate Telecom companies are slowly and silently increasing their tariffsSo support and stay with BSNL as we are all loyal indian citizens

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Bandhan Preet Singh January 22 2014 1156 pm 1156 PM

very right aravind

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Pravin Prashant December 30 2013 439 pm 439 PM

Here i am also facing the same problem which you are facing From some days the BSNL network is very poor and we are unable to talk frequently Voice breaks are a common matter with BSNL network The customer care executivesare not so friendly like other mobile operators The most bizarre fact of BSNL is its server down Whenever you call to a customer care executive they are providing the same answer server down please call later It is strongly advisedBSNL to take care of its intentional customers to make them happy

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Tarun December 30 2013 642 pm 642 PM

Pravin its not only you every BSNL customer is facing the same issue

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BP Singh December 30 2013 1013 pm 1013 PM

Pravin you must book complaint online and highlight how in ur Area BSNL is not working wellAs a good customer you must raise the matter to highest authority It may make some one happy as u said

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satyajit saikia December 30 2013 430 pm 430 PM

According to me at first the low level employees from casual worker should be trained about the services tariffs etc flawlessly and why our services better than other private operators and also trained them why and how to convince

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the customer For doing this the monetary rewards should be given to them Also some monitory power should be given to TTArsquos as they are running almost every exchanges and low level employees directly connected to them

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kalyankar December 29 2013 932 pm 932 PM

dear chetan thanks for the article very good onehelliphelliphelliphellipthe best point in the article u never tried to degrade bsnl by comparing bsnl with private operatorshellipwho r in the market just to earn money helliphelliphelliphellipand to all those who r withbsnl thanks for ur support becoz of the customers like u bsnl is able to survive against all oddshellipUPA is giving bail out to private firms but it is not willing to bailout the govt owned bsnlhelliphelliphelliphellip+BSNL is very essential to be in the market to prevent the atrocities of private operatorshelliphelliphellipif BSNL is not there then we would have charged even for incoming and call rates might have gone up upto rs 10shyper minutehelliphelliphelliphellipat lastBmdashshyBESTSmdashshySPOKENNmdashshyNATIONALLmdashshyLANGUAGE

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Kiran December 29 2013 309 pm 309 PM

I agree with the above suggestions In my view some practical things that can be done like try to attract the young graduates for marketing for that some dedicated marketing wing should exist Improve the customer satisfaction level bypoliteness and caring for the customers Utilising the infrastructure including training centers for commercial purpose Cost cutting measures to be taken in maintenance

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Indian December 28 2013 733 pm 733 PM

I suggest you come to reality 9999 of ppl who use BSNL donrsquot know approaching social media So any spend by BSNL on social media is waste of money The main pblem is their lazy old employees Their overpaid salaries for thework they r doing is main reason for BSNL loses

Once in bnglr I tried to shift my BB connection when I changed room amp I had to go pillar to post between two BSNL exchanges amp even after 15 days the connection didnrsquot got transference but a single call to a private BB every gotdone So itrsquos mainly their lazy employees

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G SUMANTH KUMAR TTA BSNL MACHILIPATNAM December 27 2013 1115 pm 1115 PM

If BSNL Management implements proper transfer policy then things will change almost And good quality infrastructure should be provided for better results In staff side BSNL is paying Rs 50000shy approximately for the clerical dutiesin the organization in these days also even its implementing paper less concept Management should remove the unproductive staff like watchman s also BSNL paying Rs 40000shy per month

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KALAYAN December 29 2013 934 pm 934 PM

HI SUMANTH I GUESS THIS IS NOT THE PLATFORM TO DISCUSS SUCH ISSUES BEING AN EMPLOYEEE OF BSNL

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kaushal singla December 27 2013 1022 am 1022 AM

in bsnl there should be accountability of every employee for their workbsnl employee doing great work now but if there is no backup at bts then a emplyee cant do anythingif we ask for battery cells there is no cells if we ask for battery protection unit the answer is novery poor maintenance of bts power plant and

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rahul December 27 2013 928 am 928 AM

bsnl plan validity scheme should change out it gives only 6 month validity to compete than others private companies gives near bout 3 years validity and after time goes on validity automatically increased but in bsnl validity game islike a supari killer who contract for a money and have a crime just like bsnl also make compulsion of validity recharge to keep active also sound quality of a call is bull shit and several drawbacks must removed

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Rushabh December 26 2013 951 am 951 AM

I mailed this to CMD mailA reply came from them saying lsquoThankyou for your feedbackWe are in a position of removing conjunction state by statehellipwe have cleared nearly 99 conjunction in maharashtrahellipnow we are making gujrat and go to differentstatesWe will be completing all states by July 14helliprsquo

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MRC Xavier December 26 2013 941 am 941 AM

This is a Wonderful article to motivate the BSNL employees right from CMD to The Group D But how many of them might have read this article to understand the fact I am also an employee of this great company People like me tryour best to convey this kind of informations to our own fellow employees

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Nitin Koirala December 26 2013 151 am 151 AM

Hi this is Nitin Koirala and i am using Blackberry 8520 if I will activate any BB plan it will work automatical or need Internet setting please reply me on my eshymail Id Thank Nitin koirala

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sourabh agrawal December 26 2013 1019 am 1019 AM

For Blackberry 8520 handset you need to recharge only blackberry plan For prepaid this voucher will be in 410 +shy 5 range After recharging with blackberry voucher 1st time service will be start in 2 hrs automatically

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Ankit Negi December 26 2013 137 am 137 AM

very nice analysis by you sir i agree with you

I want to add why BSNL is best

1) Best 3G speed as I get around 900KBps (its kilobytes not kilobits) speed in my town Dehradun where other operators like Airtel gives 300KBps and Idea gives 300KBps while TATA DOCOMO gives aroung 500KBps speed

2) Not a single paisa is wrongly deduced from my balance in last 6 years

In my dehradun (Uttarakhand) the biggest problem with BSNL is 1) Very Very poor customer support if you get any problem then there is no way for you other than go to BSNL main head office and submit your handwritten complain2)Sometimes 3G services do not run in some part of town3) BSNL Uttaranchal website does not remain updated on time

Sir I think curruption is the biggest problem with BSNL Higher authorities of BSNL are highly curropt they choose for customer care services to those companies who gave them very high commision below the table they gave portal maintainence services to those companies who gave themagain very high commisionThis is the main reason of very poor service of BSNL

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Sayantan(Kolkata) December 26 2013 1213 am 1213 AM

I am a die hearted fan of Airtrl but I really feel sad for BSNL as it is sinking slowly and graduallyEverytime when I visit a BSNL exchange I see that its filled with some people from the 50s and 40s who dosent know even T oftechnology and my God their behaviourSo RUDEI dont understand what do these grandfathers think of themselvesWhereas look at the employees of the private operatorsSo smartThey are paid much less than BSNL but still theydont behave rudelySo obviously why wont people prefer BSNLPeople say that BSNL is good and its network is present in the Siachen and Villiages but how many times are we normal people visiting Siachen and villagesIt all thatmatters is the service that we get from them when we at our home location and in my home locationits better to forget that there is a company called BSNL

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P MANOJ December 26 2013 551 pm 551 PM

Dear Mr Sayantan please remember that the rates of other operators including that of Airtel is not increasing only because BSNL is there in the field

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Rajesh May 24 2014 754 pm 754 PM

I accept with you sayantan I also faced similar problem I was attracted by the network availabilty and plans of bsnl and planned to port The first word i got from my colleague is not to go bsnl as it has the worst customer serviceI was working in a MNC and no one here has bsnl connection except me as we are having very good offers from airtel and better connectivity For porting my no to BSNL i went to the bsnl office and people there are behavingreally rude there attitude is like if you want buy otherwise leave I have been to airtel office and people are behaving really good they are asking my requirement and suggesting plan accordingly I am interested in taking postpaidconnection but consoled myself not to go after seeing their behaviour They are not even ready to tell what offers they are having I finally got my sim after visitng there 5 shy6 times which got fortunately activated I Checked theplan in internet as I have office network and activated plans relavant to me Now i am facing problem with my network connection I am in the hot of the bangalore city Koramangala and i am not having proper 3g connection Itried to reach customer care and when they pick they are simply disconnecting it They are not even ready to wait for us to say hello Now i am repenting my move I submitted my complaint online but not sure whether i will getresponse I planned to wait for some time otherwise planning to move to airtel as spending few bucks extra is better than having no connectivity

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N GUPTA (ANDHRA PRADESH) December 25 2013 909 pm 909 PM

Bsnl making loses because of UPA ndash I and II wrong decisions In 2005 and then it cancelled many expansion plans of bsnl So with less towers i canrsquot server huge customers so from last several years bsnl customers are facing problemsWith this reasons many people reluctant to use BSNL service After Upadhya took charge as a CMD they started expansion this year they are adding 147 millions cell lines with help ZTE All these ZTE towers supports 2G 3G 4GNow upadhaya planing to adopt managed network model In this model like nokia or ericsson or alcatelshylucent take care of bsnl network for ten years If they find any congestation in any area they install new tower immediately Inpresent model it canrsquot start new towers immediately And bsnl converting its network switches from TDM to NGN which is very advanced and capable to serve more customers With TDM technology there is much wastage of networkWith NGN technology they can start IPTV Video on Demand etc So Bsnl has to start new services like IPTV Video on demand etc With these service it can earn more revenue Apart from these first BSNL employees fight with UPAgovt if it stop managed model network expansion plans not for their Salaries or DArsquos or Travel charges

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karthik December 25 2013 632 pm 632 PM

recruit new young guys talented is marketing hr etc give vrs for those willing to go because those cannot bring any +impact to bsnl

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Aslam December 25 2013 518 pm 518 PM

BSNL MAKING HUGE LOSSES BECAYSE ITS RUN BY CORRUPT OFFICIALS WORKING IN INTERESTS OF PRIVATE OPERATORS ONLY MODI CAN SAVE BSNL AND INDIA

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XYZ December 25 2013 732 pm 732 PM

modi coruptless no one is corupless in politics

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susfb December 25 2013 457 pm 457 PM

Foremost thing is that BSNL is a service provider and not a business group established for making profit Employees are recruited for maintaining the telecom services and not for marketing Leave these employees for technicalmaintenance form separate marketing wing with young talented guys with marketing aptitude

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Hariharan A December 25 2013 443 pm 443 PM

I appreciate your analasis and suggestion for improvement of bsnl to get profitI have aleady sent my views through my mailBy adopting this Ibelieve bsnl will get profit within 21 monthsshy3 months for consideration of plan and 18months for execute the planBsnl existence is very essential not only for safety of our country but also arrest private operators earning more money from customers for examble we know that they charged for incoming and out goingcalls with high rate before we enter the cell businessThanking you sirHariharan A SrtoaBsnl employee Nagercoil division Tamil nadu Circle

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pradeep December 26 2013 1056 pm 1056 PM

fully agreed with u sirndash pradeepcommon man

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Hariharan A December 25 2013 325 pm 325 PM

The retirment age of the bsnl officials may be reduced from 60 to 58yearswhich will decrease the salary expenditure to a certain extentYoung energetic and enthusiastic engineering graduates may be recruited as apprentice trainees fortwo years to compete with other operators in the fast developing technology after that they may be prefered for regular post Periodically inspectio and surprise check up should be conducted by the officerswhich will help theimprovement of serviceAll nationalisedscheduled banks should be approached for opening ATM centers in BSNL officesas minimum 30 centre in each districtby this we can crores of rupees as profitAlso shopping complex may be constructed in BSNLvacant land by availing bank loan taking advance amount from prospective customers for offering the same for rentPunctuality in duty should be inculcated among staff from top to bottom by introducing card punching which is connected with salary packageThe above practice will yield fruitfull resultIncentiveHonararium payment may be made by means of Top up cards intead of cash paymentsBy fixing a target date for disposal all idle and obsolute storesthe unserviceable stores should be disposed offVacant buildings and BSNL quarters may be given rent for GovtSemi GovtPSU whereever possibleThe tariff benefits and offers should resemble to private operatorsThen only BSNL will survivegtProcedures for international roaming should be simplified like private operatorsPrepaid plans may be rationalisegttop ups and planvalidity voucher may be merged togetherVRS to employees by getting loan from bank is not inteligable

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KOTESWARARAONERELLA December 25 2013 1018 am 1018 AM

MrChetan has very correctly and dispassionately analysed the plus and minuses of BSNLAs a retired senior officer of DOTBSNL I fully agree with MrChetanBasically the staff 100 lines ratio is high in BSNL when compared withother private telcos who got very less staff for 100 lines and consequently the pay bill with pay revison commissions increase along with other central employees thereby major part goes to salariesThese staff were NOT RECRUITEDBY BSNL BUT CAME AS A LEGACY OF DOT and they have to be continued or given VRS with a GOOD GOLDEN HANDSHAKE FOR WHICH THE GOVTHAS TO FINANCE AROUND 10K cores which they are notreleasing2 The staff recruited in 1980s are RAW candidates with little education and they may not be able to express confidently in English with customers and at the most in local language also they have to learn speak polished language whichis to be imparted at Training centres3A few thousands Engineering graduates have been directly recruited as JTO (Junior Telecm Officer ) and TTAs (Telecom Technical Assistants) and these people are not being trained in HRD in the trainng centres to the desired extentthereby they are not being fully exploited4The DOT has to REFUND around 8000shy crores for the BWA spectrum returned back in 2011 and eventhough the GOM has recommened to refund in which FM and MOC are members yet the money is not yet givenIf given then the

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RED will become GREEN in the balance sheet5Supply of Instrumentscables jointing kitsdrop wires etc which are required for EXTERNAL PLANT MAINTENANCE AND DIRECTLY NEEDED FOR THE SUBSCRIBER are in poor supplyI am told they are keepingsometimes RECOVERED AND REPAIRED PHONE INSTRUMENTS TO NEW CUSTOMERS and this should be stopped to increase customer satisfaction6Govt while creating BSNL PSU in 2000 gave lot of promises that it will do all help and take care the needs of PSU but practically there is no such thing either in CASH OR KIND7Even for CAPEX and OPEX BSNL is struggling year after year and atleast the SPECTRUM CHARGES WHICH HAVE BEEN THE HIGHEST PAID BY BSNL shuold be refunded so that it will be on rails and run with full steam tocontinue public patronage which will not be allowed to be done by the private telcos who are waiting for the BSNL not to be a serious contestant against their interest

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Darshan December 25 2013 402 pm 402 PM

Ohh so its due to govthellip$shyiexcl| on the govt due to which bsnl going in red sheetshellip

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shekhar December 25 2013 908 am 908 AM

Make it private sell it Bharti Reilance anybody Free it from Red tapism ITS and Line man culture

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kalyankar December 29 2013 938 pm 938 PM

BOSS DONT WORRY WHEN BSNL IS SOLD TO PRIVATE FIRMS U WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE CALLS WITH PAISAShelliphelliphelliphellipBUT WITH BULK OF RUPEES REQUIRE TO MAKE AND RECIEVE CALLS

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sanjay April 10 2014 205 pm 205 PM

u r right sir

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sanjay April 10 2014 206 pm 206 PM

u r absolutely right kalyankarhellip

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Nazeer Ahmed December 25 2013 905 am 905 AM

The suggesstion given by MrS Chetan are good but Babus at top level of BSNL need changed in their mindset they are shirkers donot want any responsibility and only want handful of salary Other operators sit on the footpath and selltheir SIM card with a xerox machine copy your ID proof with the xerox machine and give cards Can this be done by the BSNL Babus The activation will be done within hours but in BSNL they ask so many question to issue SIMAddress proof apart from Driving licence or PAN card This is how BSNL is sinking

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Debabrata Dutta Kolkata December 25 2013 316 am 316 AM

For last one month missed call alert of BSNL Kolkata is not working on my numberhelliphellip any body facing the same problem has the missed call alert number 17010 been changed I have diverted to 17010 under not reachablecondition but its still not working in Kolkata Kindly reply helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

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Kaushik Roy December 25 2013 942 am 942 AM

yes for me also BSNL MCA is not working and I diverted to 17010

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Kaushik Roy December 24 2013 937 pm 937 PM

Majority people will not use BSNL as primary numbers since its network goes down on a regular basis and one can not rely on it 100 specially single SIM usersOnly for roamers and travellers BSNL is useful for its great coverage I have seen many places in rural areas only BSNL signal is available and no other operator even AshyVOshyID are not there In places like Kolkata people can rely onother network than BSNL But for rural places BSNL is a good optionI used BSNL as my secondary number but I switched off the number majority times when I am in Kolkata I use it only for roaming with plan 199 which gives 180 days roaming incoming free except DelhiMumbai and Jammu ampKashmir and believe me in roaming I did not face much problem with BSNL

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BP Singh December 24 2013 928 pm 928 PM

Links of websites for lodging your Compliant amp Grievances against BSNL and there by improving its work culture

httpmisbsnlcoinpgsinternetpgwebregnaspBefore lodging any complaint to Higher authority make sure that you have approached middle amp lower Mgmt Keep proofs of it

Government Department Related Complaintshttpwwwpgportalgovin

RTI Onlinehttpwwwrtionlinegovin

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sanjay April 10 2014 223 pm 223 PM

BP singhrsquo ji why BSNL is not giving Adrsquos like using mobile more is harmful to brainears as medically prooved while Landline is harmless please create a awareness of use of Landline

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vivek December 24 2013 609 pm 609 PM

The retailer of bsnl dorsquot know what is MNP and what is current tariff in bsnl Then how satishfy a customer that there tariff is best The main reason of bsnl to go in decreasing revenue is that the customer not attracted toward bsnlbecause they dorsquot know what is current scheme of BSNL If you go private shop and ask them for sim then they would not suggest for bsnl If you ask for bsnl then they told that call rate is costly you can not get recharge at each shopsound quality is not good and without asking they suggest you about scheme of private service provider What is reason that they not appreciate bsnl because bsnl not give sufficient share as private give Second thing is BSNL customercare If your balance deduced in wrong way and if you complain for it then they told you that I dorsquot have right to refund your money but they will never tell that I am trying to refund your money by telling appropriate authority Insteadthey give email id and told you that you can contact to appropriate authority by sending email If you told them please sir send me email address then they told sir I donrsquot have right send to sms if you contact that email id you willalways got permanently failure of email

So you can think how good customer care service of BSNL

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Arun K G December 24 2013 852 pm 852 PM

BSNL is giving 55 of MRP on every rechargeTOP up to retailers which is higher among all private operators

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mr rai December 24 2013 541 pm 541 PM

bsnl is run by corrupt babus and ministers hence it will always make huge loss and suck common man blood money

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Arun K G December 24 2013 854 pm 854 PM

Can you tell any goverment public enterprise which donrsquot have any ind of curreption

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AA December 24 2013 523 pm 523 PM

BSNL is the legacy of the govt they will neither abondone nor let it function it is a source of corruption I am sure BSNL will continue to survive for the selfish motivies of the babus

Unless QoS and accountability improves nothing else is possible the effective way to use bsnl is to use it as backup (secoundary) number Bsnl is not in the business race hence forget about drastic improvement The least you expectthe happier you are

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rahul December 24 2013 457 pm 457 PM

bsnl plan validity scheme should change out it gives only 6 month validity to compete than others private companies gives near bout 3 years validity and after time goes on validity automatically increased but in bsnl validity game islike a supari killer who contract for a money and have a crime just like bsnl also make compulsion of validity recharge to keep active also sound quality of a call is bull shit and several drawbacks must removed

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Umesh Singh December 24 2013 250 pm 250 PM

1) BSNL should be allowed to give political parties funding so that it can get tailored made policies like other private operator

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narapareddyp December 24 2013 237 pm 237 PM

In my district(anantapurap) BSNL have 3G network only in few areaswe want more 3G NETWORK

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D Rajendra December 24 2013 135 pm 135 PM

13 yrs have been passed after merger from DOT to BSNL(PSU) but no corporate work culture is devloped among the employeesThis may be one of the reasonsSo first step to make BSNL profitable to motive and wtrngthen themarketing culture

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RKrishna Rao December 24 2013 105 pm 105 PM

The employees and their unionsassociations of BSNL had continuously raised issues concerning the development and expansion of the services Much more to be done to improve the services The mindshyset of the employees needs to befurther improved to face the present challenges and for ensuring a better service to the customers They should always remember that they are important stakeshyholders of the company and at the service of the nation and its people Theyshould educate the employees to seek the support of people for strengthening BSNL

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Abhijit December 24 2013 1256 pm 1256 PM

BSNL can come in profit by charging heavily to its customers who are already paying more than the service quality

hellip just joking as that will end BSNL

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Ganesh December 24 2013 1245 pm 1245 PM

Hey very good pointsI agree with anti corruption measures I bought a new BSNL landline and the line men came 1 week late and they didnrsquot even give the line properly (no dial tone) and when I said thanks they were like give us some money (instead ofthanks) I gave them 20 rupees and they were like who wants those I just told them that I didnrsquot have any Then they went away leaving that 20 But even after 1 week there was no dial tone I then had to complaint to the officials aboutthe line and then they fixed it after 7 days

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Sunil December 24 2013 1228 pm 1228 PM

Infrastructure and network of BSNL are good in comparison to other operators But only the thing to advertise the product tariffand services through employee working in BSNL Employees are only waiting for perks salary hike andother benifits they do not know the latest product and tariff of BSNL Employee working at customer service centre use to watch the time for lunch and closing the officeSome employeesofficers who are not working and even notsigning in files are enjoying service but few dedicated employeesofficer who are working hard are facing inquiries served with charge sheets due to complaints made by fellow lazy employees and contractorsupplier who wish to earnfake money without working Strict discipline is must

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Dr GL Kamei December 24 2013 1210 pm 1210 PM

Chethan S I do appreciate your suggestion c per c My Dad too serving in BSNL in Gr A executive post who I rely everything but he mention about BSNL downfall for which I am worried I am working in a med Institute after my Postshygraduationand my brother would be a med graduate very soon My Brother refuse to use BSNL Product for its poor performances I would upload comments later on

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seema December 24 2013 1207 pm 1207 PM

Lack of strong customer support is ofcourse a reason for the poor performance of BSNL but as indians we should understand BSNLs social commitment it is not profit oriented alone unlike other private operatorsSo do support BSNL LONG LIVE BSNL

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kalyankar December 29 2013 942 pm 942 PM

THANKS SEMMA GOOD COMMENTShellip

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sanjay April 10 2014 214 pm 214 PM

u r right seema

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KK Chaudhary December 24 2013 1033 am 1033 AM

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Condition of BSNL is like Nai in Thakurrsquos Barat

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Vishal Jaiswal December 24 2013 906 am 906 AM

I agree with ur views MrKumar but to cut the losses some decisons in a balanced manner has to taken like VRS for 50+ or 55+ employes to reduce no of employees Use of private agencies to market their product etc etc For a PSUprofit generation is never a motive but generating such a huge loss is also not acceptable

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krishan kumar December 24 2013 234 pm 234 PM

Vishal Jaiswal Can anyone think why BSNL in loss not because it can not make profit

VRS can reduce 50 salary expenditure of BSNL which is about 7700 Cr But giving VRS is like rdquo throw your parents out of your home because they are aged and not capable to contribute as much as they had contributed intheir time for the homerdquo

If BSNL Headed by ambani or others they can throw them even profit was reduced

BSNL is going to install GSM BTS naxalite area for our Defence forces not for profit BSNL know that to run GSM BTS in naxalite area is very difficult and incurred huge expenditure

BSNL going to ring connectivity to East area where revenue is in few crores not for profit but for the people of the country

It all depends on us rdquo If we want BSNL to live who act for the country peoplerdquoIndian Politician doing their best effort to sell BSNL to fill their pockets

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kmalakondaiah December 24 2013 838 am 838 AM

sir i appreciate your analasis and suggestions for improvementi am adding following points ror reaching profits1) attituderespectfriendly atmospherepatience listiningcaringimportancehelping naturepositive approachgood bodylanguage towards custmers is very very very essentials and invitableBSNL is now improving stage when comparedto PampT and DOT but not reached 100 to reach 100 behaviour traing and counselling is required to BSNL employees2) next quality of service shy borodband modemstelephone instrumentsdropwire etc topquality is to be choosen instead of poor qualitythe PampT and DOT slogan lowest price is to be forgotten and high quality is to be kept in mind whileprocuring stores3)maintinance of BTS(cell towers)shy is to be improved by provisionmaintainnig generatorsbattery sets 4)attending brodband complints on top priority5)the average age of bsnl employee is 50 yrsso the existing young jtorsquos and ttas clerksare to be posted in custmer service centers and cell towers maintinaceOr by hiring youngsters between 18shy25 years the 5 lakh employees come down to 25 lakhs now it will comedown to 2 lakhs by 2015BSNL existance is very much essential for the safety our country and to arrest private operators earning money from custemersfor example when the introduction of mobiles by private operators you know they charged for incoming andoutgoing calls at very very high rateswhen BSNL allowed to start mobiles they tariff come down and all the custmers were benifitedfinally one common problem facing by all the custemers from all the telecom operatots is shy some amount is deducting without knowledgeconsent of custemers by means of content providers servicesvalue added servicesall custemersare suffering and bitterly complining on this cheating processThis is highly objectionable and against to indian constitutionso i request all the custemers and eminent people to take all stps to arrest this cheatingi specially requestsupreme court lawers to takeup this issue and stop this cheating

kmalakondaiahBSNL employeevisakhapatnam andhrapradesh

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DrSrinagesh Poduri June 3 2014 1050 am 1050 AM

Dear Malakondaiah garu I am now at Australia If you remember I met you last month I am from Bhimili I purchased a postpaid connection with International Roaming after reaching here when I tried to activate it says thatthe SIM card registration failed Could you please check if the card has been activated for international roaming Thank you

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krishan kumar December 24 2013 1247 am 1247 AM

I want to share some point about BSNL

1 BSNL is feeding 254 Lakh family in india where as other private operator having 5 to 10 of this 70 employees are more than 50+ can they exist in other telecom company2 BSNL still running Landline services in rural areas and facing a loss of 10000 Cr per year where no other operate even think to go in dream3 BSNL still running more than 1000 exchanges where monthly revenue is about 5000 to 6000 but bill of electricity and security in about one lakh per month4 BSNL is giving broadband services in thousands of rural exchange where other operator not even ready to edge network5 In my district BSNL have 3G network in all taluka where only few operator have 3G network in district only I am living in city where Asia largest refinery exist6 Can you imagine the tariff rates AirtelVodafone and Idea If BSNL not in market7 BSNL have its connectivity in lehladakh amarnath siachen etc only for the person who protect our country can touch with their family in such tough condition

there are so many points otherhelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip which makes BSNL for country

If BSNL wants to be become in profit it can be done in 6 monthshelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

1 Reduce employees strength upto 30000 and make unemployment for about 220 lakh employees Airtel having revenue 40000 cr having only 25000 employees3 Close all rural exchanges and cut them from indian economy and save about 10000 Cr per year This is enough to make BSNL in profit4 Close all 3G BTS in rural where it can unable to generate revenue equal to its electricity bill to running the BTS5 Close all BTS in remote area and make Indian defence force to suffer

there are hundreds of point other which BSNL can do to become in profit

I agree BSNL has lots of drawback but imagine the condition of India without BSNL

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Tharun George December 24 2013 815 am 815 AM

BSNL can do the following practical things to get profitable1 Close the landline service and replace all landline with WLL phones For broadband replace with 3GI am telling this because in my area BSNL is not giving both landline or broadband saying line not available2 BSNL is getting paid by UOF fund from Gov to put BTS in remote areas and nexal areas3 In Kerala Idea has more tower in rural area than BSNL Almost all towers of Idea are now 3G But BSNL has only started expanding 3G in 3 years

BSNL is not the only organization with large employees Look at railway largest Gov employer in India Still its running without much loss

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AK December 24 2013 1125 am 1125 AM

Railway has incurred Rs60000 cr loss

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Tharun George December 24 2013 235 pm 235 PM

Indian Railways(From wikipedia)Revenue Increase to INR 12568 billion (US$19 billion) (2012ndash13)Net income Increase to INR 1041 billion (US$16 billion) (2012ndash13)

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Pravat Kumar Das December 24 2013 1256 pm 1256 PM

Very good point about BSNL thanks

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rangarajan December 24 2013 308 pm 308 PM

sirBSNL has a huge work force to be reduced by VRS (VOL REmoval scheme) already i informed authority to work with 30000 to get profit but CMD is calm cos he is retiring in June 2014rangarajan

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A RAO December 24 2013 423 pm 423 PM

All private operators do business BSNL gives Services to public BSNL wants profit it can come with in a year profit by doing business like private opertorsBSNL moto is to give best possible services to public in every corner ofIndia and it is ready to give restore immediately the communication when disastrous rains floods etc occures then the private operators for example a Appreciation letter from Govt of India received for restoration communicationservices at Uttarkand in june 2013 when a big disastrous happened

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sanjay April 10 2014 216 pm 216 PM

good comments sir

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kalyankar December 29 2013 945 pm 945 PM

SIR GOOD COMMENTShelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

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sand December 23 2013 1112 pm 1112 PM

chetan

My idea is that bsnl should have tailor made plans and also special offers for customers who make good amount of rechargesA gift would always make a consumer feel important and he would stick around

Postpaid is the greatest revenue generatorBring down the security deposits at par or lower than private firmsCouple it with the fair and transparent billing of bsnl and they will be instant hit

Have a greatly responsible cust care that responds

Cut down broadband prices now instead of doing it wen maybe 4g brings down tariffs and people have already migratedcustomer loyalty always has its own magic

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sand December 23 2013 1107 pm 1107 PM

Chetan

In my mail apart from the complaints i had mentioned these same things to the CMD as some ideasI dont know if he took any notice of that but since his office acted on the complaint i guess he took notice

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sand December 23 2013 1104 pm 1104 PM

chetan

I have been complaining for the last 2 yrs to fix the bsnlsupportFinally last month i decided to escalate matters furtherI sent my complaint to the CMD of BSNL with the kerala circle head in ccThis was my final attemptIt workedI got a mail back from CMD SECTTAlso complaints of mine were being called up and followed up by the circle head or someone in keralaIf you dont trust me i could put the screen shot of the reply i got hereI think all bsnlcustomers should try thisI even offered the CMD the recorded call with customer care which gave me a 53 min hold timeI think since we choose to vent our anger here and there an dnot take it up in the official way we get no replies or fixesIf every consumer facing the issue instead complains and follows it up and makes sure it gets heard then yes we candefinitly make changes

I ask every bsnl customer to do the same and then we will see the changesDont give up by porting or adjustGet ur voice heard

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k thirmal reddy December 23 2013 1036 pm 1036 PM

Here I should mention thatIf there is any PSU in India without itrsquos own responsible and accountable top managementthat is the one and only BSNLIt is a peculiar situation in BSNLEven after 13 years of its formation it still workslike a Govtdept Definitely there are a handful of top managers of impeccable integrity and concern for itwho can make things happen The best trained executives and prime assets and latest infra are the core strengths They should notbe underestimated The non performing assets to be made performing through innovative methods There are constraintsProfit making is not the ultimate visionbut Hope BSNL shall survive and come up with flags to enhance value inthe hands of customers and save the people of India from the clutches of private coSif Govt has the will to serve the people through BSNL

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b m b December 23 2013 1025 pm 1025 PM

UPA Govt should release all Dues pending from DOT some schemes to be announces like Ex MOS Paswanji schemes of Rs500connectionOfficialsofficers of GOVT should use BSNLHON MOC can look in bottle neck GSMnetworks needs of BSNL

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Vikas agarwal December 23 2013 956 pm 956 PM

I do not think now BSNL can compete with Private operatorsOne SDE of BSNL namely Sailash yadav of Faridabad earning black money and nobody is taking any action against himhe is working in tax section

So if condition like these continues and strict action if not taken then people will fed up from BSNl

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Darshan Malu December 23 2013 944 pm 944 PM

It should be published in newspapers media everywherehellipso that RK upadhya will know abt ithellipor your efforts going 2 b utter wastehellipplz possible mail this post to media mails like to TOI or NDTV or ET or anywhete possiblei amsure they will appreciate u r efforts and will publish themhellip

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Ducts December 23 2013 940 pm 940 PM

Nothing is going to improveIndia is a country where the top officials r oldhellipu can c our pmhellipeven with bsnl same thinghellipthat rk upadhay i think can even not operate his email id i think bcuz after sending so many email that man doesnt even have sense ofreplyinghellipuck u r company n sry not company actually u n ur corrupt teamhellipSaala samajhta nahi its nly our indiarsquos losshellipif u c ATampThellipDue 2 its QoS people dont even think to go for TshymobilehellipIndian government koh bhi samajtha nahi to appoint youngsters in such job by seeing what he actually knows n with gud marketting skillshellipWTF even after having pan india 3G lincense one would had taken advantage of it n make company to move forwardhellipRk upadhay u just take retirement u r mind age has no more ideas its time u r mind needs SANYAS

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Rishabh December 23 2013 1041 pm 1041 PM

+100000000

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Akhil Mohan December 23 2013 913 pm 913 PM

My experienceFor the last two weeks there is no internet in my 3G connection It connects but no data transfer takes place Registered a complaint with the no 9400000198 an waited for their call for 1 week but no one called me and today i received amessage saying your complaint has been closedHow will a company like this ever make profit If govt tries to bail out BSNL i may even try to go to court to prevent that because public dont need to pay for their wrong doings and inefficency

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derik December 23 2013 843 pm 843 PM

BSNL IS THE BEST IN KERALA AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE THE MARKET LEADER VERY SOONhelliphellipI LOVE BSNLhelliphellip

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LShobha December 23 2013 812 pm 812 PM

I would like to comment on corruption Eradicating corruption should be TOP DOWN approach and not BOTTOM UP approach Corruption cannot be cleansed from lineman to CMD but the other way around BSNL is a governmentcompany and obviously it will be a reflection of how our government is being run ndash scam ridden ndash Coalgate 2G Maharashtra dam scandalCommonwealth games scandal Robert Vadra Scandal mining scandal etc etc As the sayinggoes ndash ldquoYathah Raja Thathah PrajardquoBSNL has its share of scams within ndash awarding of contracts by top management to Boston Consulting Group appointing brand ambassadors to Ms Preity Zinta Deepika Padukone without any tangible result Perhaps the biggest ofthem all is the BSNL CDMA services Crores of public money invested without any revenueAs for the employees it is better to offer VRS to all the DOT recruited employees and hand over the organisation to the BSNL recruited youngsters and make them more accountableFinally BSNL should continue to exist in the larger interests of the countryrsquos security The government can not allow the Mittals Ambanis Tatas and Birlas to pocket crores of rupees money to gift aeroplanes to their wives and celebrateglitzy and glamorous wedding anniversaries and build Antilias with helicopter landing pads

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joseph joy christopher December 23 2013 747 pm 747 PM

BSNL Lags in1)proper plans2)no permanent tariff some plan came within 2 weekrsquos it will be removed eg 12rs roaming pack3)bad customer service4) even using gprs packs is not allowed in tn circle on black out days even with pack it is chargable

Prorsquos1)core network in all arearsquos

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SAHIL December 23 2013 703 pm 703 PM

BSNL CAN NEVER AND WILL NEVER IMPROVE OR CHANGE BECAUSE ITS RUN BY CORRUPT CRONIES OF PRIVATE OPERATORS AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS WHOSE ONLY AGENDA IS TO DESTROY BSNLAND BENEFIT PRIVATE OPERSTORS BSNL IS ALREADY ANOTHER AIR INDIA IN MAKING ULTIMATELY BSNL LOSSES WILL BE FUNDED FROM INDIAN CONSUMERS AND TAX PAYERS HARD EARNEDMONEY BUT AFTER 2014 ELECTIONS MODI WILL CLEAN UP THESE CORRUPT PEOPLE AND BSNL WILL IMPROVE

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Panditji December 23 2013 621 pm 621 PM

It is completely true that BSNL does not care its customers I surrendered a BSNL land line connection in Muzaffarpur Bihar only because of its employees After many request to its concern officials (even to higher official BSNLMuzaffarpur) no proper step was taken for a long period but every bishymonth i was served with a suitable bill and finally i unwillingly surrendered the connection This is what BSNL officials care its customers If this situation remainscontinued BSNL will never go in profit

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Satheesh December 23 2013 606 pm 606 PM

Myself is a BSNL employee I think the real problem lies with the TOP management Top level management is still DOT staff and deputation to BSNL Most of them are least bothered about the future of the Company and they are onlyburocrats and no professionalism which is the need of the hour They are not at all accountable for their activities and not ready to accept the feedback given by other stake holders such as employees franchisees etc Only proffessionalmanagement can rescue the organisation

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js December 23 2013 833 pm 833 PM

The pathetic state of the BSNL is purely because of the very bad attitude of the employees Employees are only interested in salary hike for every pay commission and spend least time in office If you want to see the attitude of theemployees you should go to an exchange or customer care center As a BSNL employee did you recommend any of your family or relatives to use BSNL product Do you know all details of BSNL products provided in your circleFirst BSNL employee should confidently market the product with their friends and relatives and they are the prime source of brand building They will blame BSNL then how they will be able to build the brand 2lakhs employeesif they try their best then BSNL can be profitable within 6months Customers need BSNL service but if BSNL can reach customers then people will always opt for it BSNL has the best tariff plans best coverage and no hiddencharges So only attitude of the employees should change not higher officials It is just an excuse to runaway from responsibilities by blaming higher officials This is what always BSNL employees union do

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Akhil Mohan December 23 2013 915 pm 915 PM

No body wants BSNL to improve Please shutdownhellip

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js December 24 2013 954 am 954 AM

AkhilBefore commenting on this you should know India first 90 percentage of mobile users do not want 3G or 4G or any data use They use mobile only to contact near and dear ones BSNL is the only service provider whoprovided service in rural areas small panchayats naxal affected areas and even Jammu and Kashmir where our soldiers are totally depending on BSNL network to contact their near and dear ones Pvt providers only look atprofit and even betray nation for the sake of money All defence orgs can only depend on BSNL and not any other service provider In UK customers did an agitation against vodafone on not paying the tax But in Indiacustomers will get more attracted by just the brand name and since it is a foreign operator and even though they do all tax frauds

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SS December 24 2013 1131 am 1131 AM

I still believe that vodafone tax case is completely non sense When vodafone acquired hutch there was no such law to tax transactions between companies incorporated outside india (the same supreme court ruled)Now they changed law to extract money by hook or by crook Is this a way

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krishna December 23 2013 516 pm 516 PM

Sometimes the strength becomes weakness The same is happening in BSNL ie Excess staff (Comparing with Private operators) is one of the reason for loss The management should take some bold decisions like giving VRSminimising retirement age from 60 to 58 (as major CPSU had the retirement age as 58)

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Chandra Sekhar Mandal December 23 2013 430 pm 430 PM

Previously i was using BSNL because it was giving 8 GB 2G [although i was getting 3G speed every time i recharged on my sim] data for just Rs219 for 30 days But after they unified 2G and 3G packs i did no recharge on that BSNL

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sim and its validity is also over I was a BSNL customer just because data purposeBSNL GO TO HELLhellip

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id December 23 2013 826 pm 826 PM

still its cheaper than others tariff

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deril December 23 2013 851 pm 851 PM

poor

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BatMAn December 23 2013 430 pm 430 PM

The funniest thing i have noticed isWhen ever Electricity in my area is down the same timethe BSNL network signal will be zero after a few minutes signal will be restored(Even if Electricity is Restored or not)i think they are have to start the DG Manuallyor No proper UPShellipif we are in a call the call will be doped Bsnl Karnataka Circle

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Rama December 23 2013 332 pm 332 PM

SaurabhHow did you know that BSNL has given out contract to expand netwrok in north indiaif you have any other source than tt and economic times would you please share it

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SS December 23 2013 322 pm 322 PM

This isnrsquot a new news This was expected and it happened Thanks to the worst management of bsnl In my circle up east there are fairly large no Of customers but ironically only 42 are active as per trairsquos report On the other handvodafone has 9970 active users and its 2g services are superior among all here My father uses bsnl only for 151shy400 mins tariff and would surely dump it if they ditch that scheme

Data services are worst than hell in bsnl For 20 days of month 2g data remains down and 3g goes down many times a day

Interconnectivity problems in bsnl are not uncommon Last time they blocked calls to vodafone for 2 months and only bsnl customers suffered I use airtel in delhi and its awesome in quality of service No single issue to complain aboutIn up east i use idea because of its robust 3g network all over the state Bsnl must to learn from them

But bsnl in far more superior than tata docomo reliance gsm aircel Lets hope that they improve

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Adil December 23 2013 950 pm 950 PM

ss i always use to agree to you but this time in climax i deny to your comment bsnl is worst than all operator whether it is docomo aircel reliance in fact uninor is far better than bsnlhellipthat is why uninor is making positive cashflow where as bsnl dying

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Aam Admi December 23 2013 221 pm 221 PM

ldquo8 Shut down loss making telephone exchanges or the ones which bring less revenue ndash many people opt for landline just due to broadband benefits through such exchanges (mainly rural) 3G data cards at special prices could beencouraged at such placesrdquo

As you already know 3G data cards are not a substitute to wired broadband I pay around 1000 INR for a broadband connection while living in a rural area Irsquom ready to pay more if BSNL can offer a 1 Mbps unlimited without FUPplan I keep my line only for broadband(a lot of people)

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Chethan S December 23 2013 713 pm 713 PM

Though I enjoy good quality Beam Fiber connection here in Hyderabad my familyrsquos situation is like yours back in my home town Our home falls in a BSNL Rural exchangersquos limits There particularly in the rainy season due tothunderstorms BSNL officials power off the telephone exchange during nights and even during weekends as an anticipatory measure depriving us of broadband connectivity Having a night unlimited connection we find itextremely the difficult to use internet within data usage limits As you said 3G data card is certainly not an alternative to wired broadband but if service is not good 3G at special rates would be welcome

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Tharun George December 23 2013 153 pm 153 PM

The only reason I am on BSNL is for cheap 3G and good 2G coverage All other things of BSNL are worst Call rates are not that low 2G internet is pathetic cannot even open google It takes 45min to get connected to customer careNetwork busy low quality sound

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prithvi December 23 2013 336 pm 336 PM

Exactly +1 BSNL

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Sugu December 23 2013 835 pm 835 PM

Tharun Well thatrsquos really surprising coz I have never faced such situation once when i had a problem ie Rs5 being deducted every week for no reason I went to their Thirunakkara Office and complained 2 days later Ireceived an SMS saying that my issue had been solved and even refunded me About the tariff in my knowledge it is providing cheapest base tariff among the operators i know I may be wrong and about 2G speed i always geta speed above 10kBshere is my speed test 2G httpwwwspeedtestnetmyshyresulta674883594

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Tharun George December 24 2013 827 am 827 AM

BSNL never deducted nay of my money As far as tariff go it is as high as private Most plans are 15ps and only mithram plan has 13ps STV are also costly

10KBs is very very low Your ping is very bad PING 903 ms Try opening gmail with it I have tested all operators 2G speed in Kerala Here are the resultDocomoshy 236kbpsAircelshy 225kbps (Shutdown)Relianceshy 225kbpsIdea ndash 170kbpsVodafone ndash 140kbpsAirtel ndash 100kbpsBSNL ndash 100kbps

For 3G BSNL has speed between 1shy2mbps But Idea 3G gives 6mbps at most time I use Reliance for 2G internet and calling Rs 74 STV gives 1p2sec for 6 months Lowest tariff in India

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Tharun George December 24 2013 830 am 830 AM

By the way you went to Kottayam office to get Rs 5 back Once I had gone there to pay Rs 4 bill for landline They laughed at me and asked how much Bus fare I spend to get there

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sugu December 24 2013 220 pm 220 PM

I said above 10kBs And it deducted Rs5 for 4 weeks I did not say anything about the refund but still they did and about 3G after 1030 I always get only about 50shy70kBs at home But at the morning it flies of to500shy700kBs when I went to my friendrsquos home at kumaranellor therersquos even H+ and I downloaded 270MB under 8 minuteshellipBus fare lol Vadavathoor to Old bus standhellip 6rshellip lolhellipBTW only 4rs landline what was your plan I hardly use tye landline the connection is only to avail broadband

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Tharun George December 24 2013 700 pm 700 PM

Vadavathoor We are so close yet meet online I am here just before Manarcad I most signal from Vadavathoor tower

I used to pay for 1 year for landline + broadband Some times exceed and they send Rs 2 or Rs 4 bills by postal Postage itself is Rs 4 for them

Disconnected BSNL broadband and landline this month I have Asianet broadband and Relaince 2G If you are using BSNL Broadband better switch to Asianet 4mbps broadband plans

I used to get 3G signal from BSNL tower at vadavathoor But 2 months ago BSNL added 3G to Rubber Board tower BTW I get signal for all private operators from Vadavathoor Does Docomo have tower atVadavathoor I am complaining for past 5 years to them about no coverage

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Sugu December 25 2013 527 pm 527 PM

Ah I think not Actually where does Docomo have towers My home is 2KM away from Thirunakkara Mostly I walk By the time I reach home BSNL will have switched through 3Towers (all 3G)while Docomo still remains connected to Thirunakkara I just get 1bar of range here and if I go to the hall no coverage Even when I went to my friends house 5km away its the same towerhellipIf you use android then download Network Signal Info it gives all details about that tower

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Riju VV December 23 2013 1029 pm 1029 PM

Bsnl kerala already introduced new customer care 9400000198No need to wait just call and enter your number They will call you back

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Tharun George December 24 2013 828 am 828 AM

You have to wait for there call back Which will take 30min ndash 1 hour

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Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 832 pm 832 PM

They never called me back for my complaint

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Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 830 pm 830 PM

Idea is now giving 1GB data for Rs 123 as a special offer

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Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 144 pm 144 PM

BSNL network is dead in Kaikhali near Kolkata Airport Area for last 10 daysIt seems that BSNL network is dead in so many places of Kolkata and they are not aware of BSNL fault and it forces people to use non BSNL SIMs

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Partha December 23 2013 842 pm 842 PM

Kaushik I live in Haldiram area near kaikhali and I did not face the problem you mentioned even for one day What was your exact location is it just beside Airport area

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Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 1054 pm 1054 PM

Partha There are few towers surrounding Kaikhali near your area haldiramHaldiram cell info display is KENDRIYA VIHAR (ABC) which is working fine and I get its signal from Outside my home but inside its stength is NIL Only I get cell info KAMALAPUR(ABC) ampDASODRONE(ABC) with 1 bar from balcony with fluctuation every 1 minuteBut the tower with KAIKHALI(ABC) cell info is not working from last 10 days which is the nearest tower from my house which is situated at Main road of VIP

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Kaushik Roy December 26 2013 1119 pm 1119 PM

Finally BSNL cell info (KAIKHALI ABC) tower started working from tonight after almost 12 days

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Saurabh December 23 2013 127 pm 127 PM

Since they gave tender for expansion in North zone I hope that their service will get better in Haryana and 3G will become available by October but none of the things happened Instead their 2G network which was worst before gettingmore and more worst here The indoor signal in my area in whatever house you check is nil to 1 bar only Those living near the BTS also face call drops You canrsquot call without voice cracking The network is just getting to bottom andno one to take care I have BSNL SIM which I recharge only once in a year with Rs34 validity extension to keep it alive as I keep SIM to check service quality

Whenever you call customer care the IVR says ldquoYour extimated hold time is 35 minutes 27 secrdquo and always over it Their CC is complete dumb and people at CSC are just illiterate who has only one answer for all the question ldquoBhaiyeh toh upar waley log decide karenge tabhi upgrade hoga Ab tumhara signal nahi aata toh hum kya karerdquo Their quality is sucking to the bottom at 60shy70 places Their VLR data shows that not even 10 lakh out of 30 lakh subscribersusing it Now you can understand why

Thanks to the private companies like Vodafone and Idea and Airtel also who have ubiquitous network and even after having 3shy4 times of BSNL subscribers their network works like charm and 99 uptime Thanks to Idea for providing3G to city towns villages and everywhere I went it was there Today I donrsquot have a single contact which is of BSNL and those I have are ported out to AVoId only

Videocon has started expansion and now have more active customers than BSNL in Haryana and soon they will have mre than that of Tata and Reliance Their is a limit to stupidity and BSNLhad crossed it since it started The conditionhere is even worst then what it was in 2004 It seems that BSNL is handling 500 customers per tower here which is chocking network all the day Few weeks back their network kept dead for 3 days So those who are on bsnl are losingeverything

I hope they donrsquot launch 3G in towns as their 2G signal is 1 bar on 1800 MHz What it will be on 2100 MHz 3G bandhellip They should save money and never launch 3G in towns in Haryana A slap to BSNL face from me

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John Thomas December 23 2013 116 pm 116 PM

What ever the writer suggested will never been going to implement I am been very long investigating BSNL policies and methodsi found that bsnl is administered by very corrupted ones Inefficient officers are getting on the top The

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main reason why people donrsquot choose bsnl is thateven though if there is a tower nearby to ones homeit is hard to find signal inside their home Government still holds bsnl nothing for but to maintain a security level in communicationof strategic important ones

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Ramesh Darji December 23 2013 1140 am 1140 AM

Dear Sanjay I want address issue of tata docomo not BSNL BSNL is govt company and some can understand but what happen to TataIn gujarat they have 3G but surprisingly they stop expanding 3G coverage Worst ever they switch off many sites in rural areas and highways In gujarat late entrant Uninor and videocon even doing better than tataIts worst ever they offers and schemes Their offer is changing so fast that customer lost trust on themStill they are riding on photon+ in maharastra and mumbai but their time is now over They are not realising adoption of 3G and still their data package is much higherOn the other hand realince and other 3G operator providing much cheaper 3G 156 now for realince 3G 299 for 2GB for MTNL and others are offering goodReliance Joi will launch service in short period and I think BSNL and other private operator who is not much serious about customer choice will be finished

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jz December 23 2013 1126 am 1126 AM

bsnl is cheap and best but didnrsquot know how to encash it

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Vamsi December 30 2013 1009 am 1009 AM

Hi frnd hellipthx for the article and my view was BSNL has a robust network to serve india better than any private company but The main and only obstacle was their employs hellipthe higher authority should initiate necessary steps todeploy corporate style to bsnlhellipbecz we all know that working hours of bsnl employs are not up to the mark so make them(Employes) work and serve better

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the customer For doing this the monetary rewards should be given to them Also some monitory power should be given to TTArsquos as they are running almost every exchanges and low level employees directly connected to them

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kalyankar December 29 2013 932 pm 932 PM

dear chetan thanks for the article very good onehelliphelliphelliphellipthe best point in the article u never tried to degrade bsnl by comparing bsnl with private operatorshellipwho r in the market just to earn money helliphelliphelliphellipand to all those who r withbsnl thanks for ur support becoz of the customers like u bsnl is able to survive against all oddshellipUPA is giving bail out to private firms but it is not willing to bailout the govt owned bsnlhelliphelliphelliphellip+BSNL is very essential to be in the market to prevent the atrocities of private operatorshelliphelliphellipif BSNL is not there then we would have charged even for incoming and call rates might have gone up upto rs 10shyper minutehelliphelliphelliphellipat lastBmdashshyBESTSmdashshySPOKENNmdashshyNATIONALLmdashshyLANGUAGE

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Kiran December 29 2013 309 pm 309 PM

I agree with the above suggestions In my view some practical things that can be done like try to attract the young graduates for marketing for that some dedicated marketing wing should exist Improve the customer satisfaction level bypoliteness and caring for the customers Utilising the infrastructure including training centers for commercial purpose Cost cutting measures to be taken in maintenance

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Indian December 28 2013 733 pm 733 PM

I suggest you come to reality 9999 of ppl who use BSNL donrsquot know approaching social media So any spend by BSNL on social media is waste of money The main pblem is their lazy old employees Their overpaid salaries for thework they r doing is main reason for BSNL loses

Once in bnglr I tried to shift my BB connection when I changed room amp I had to go pillar to post between two BSNL exchanges amp even after 15 days the connection didnrsquot got transference but a single call to a private BB every gotdone So itrsquos mainly their lazy employees

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G SUMANTH KUMAR TTA BSNL MACHILIPATNAM December 27 2013 1115 pm 1115 PM

If BSNL Management implements proper transfer policy then things will change almost And good quality infrastructure should be provided for better results In staff side BSNL is paying Rs 50000shy approximately for the clerical dutiesin the organization in these days also even its implementing paper less concept Management should remove the unproductive staff like watchman s also BSNL paying Rs 40000shy per month

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KALAYAN December 29 2013 934 pm 934 PM

HI SUMANTH I GUESS THIS IS NOT THE PLATFORM TO DISCUSS SUCH ISSUES BEING AN EMPLOYEEE OF BSNL

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kaushal singla December 27 2013 1022 am 1022 AM

in bsnl there should be accountability of every employee for their workbsnl employee doing great work now but if there is no backup at bts then a emplyee cant do anythingif we ask for battery cells there is no cells if we ask for battery protection unit the answer is novery poor maintenance of bts power plant and

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rahul December 27 2013 928 am 928 AM

bsnl plan validity scheme should change out it gives only 6 month validity to compete than others private companies gives near bout 3 years validity and after time goes on validity automatically increased but in bsnl validity game islike a supari killer who contract for a money and have a crime just like bsnl also make compulsion of validity recharge to keep active also sound quality of a call is bull shit and several drawbacks must removed

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Rushabh December 26 2013 951 am 951 AM

I mailed this to CMD mailA reply came from them saying lsquoThankyou for your feedbackWe are in a position of removing conjunction state by statehellipwe have cleared nearly 99 conjunction in maharashtrahellipnow we are making gujrat and go to differentstatesWe will be completing all states by July 14helliprsquo

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MRC Xavier December 26 2013 941 am 941 AM

This is a Wonderful article to motivate the BSNL employees right from CMD to The Group D But how many of them might have read this article to understand the fact I am also an employee of this great company People like me tryour best to convey this kind of informations to our own fellow employees

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Nitin Koirala December 26 2013 151 am 151 AM

Hi this is Nitin Koirala and i am using Blackberry 8520 if I will activate any BB plan it will work automatical or need Internet setting please reply me on my eshymail Id Thank Nitin koirala

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sourabh agrawal December 26 2013 1019 am 1019 AM

For Blackberry 8520 handset you need to recharge only blackberry plan For prepaid this voucher will be in 410 +shy 5 range After recharging with blackberry voucher 1st time service will be start in 2 hrs automatically

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Ankit Negi December 26 2013 137 am 137 AM

very nice analysis by you sir i agree with you

I want to add why BSNL is best

1) Best 3G speed as I get around 900KBps (its kilobytes not kilobits) speed in my town Dehradun where other operators like Airtel gives 300KBps and Idea gives 300KBps while TATA DOCOMO gives aroung 500KBps speed

2) Not a single paisa is wrongly deduced from my balance in last 6 years

In my dehradun (Uttarakhand) the biggest problem with BSNL is 1) Very Very poor customer support if you get any problem then there is no way for you other than go to BSNL main head office and submit your handwritten complain2)Sometimes 3G services do not run in some part of town3) BSNL Uttaranchal website does not remain updated on time

Sir I think curruption is the biggest problem with BSNL Higher authorities of BSNL are highly curropt they choose for customer care services to those companies who gave them very high commision below the table they gave portal maintainence services to those companies who gave themagain very high commisionThis is the main reason of very poor service of BSNL

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Sayantan(Kolkata) December 26 2013 1213 am 1213 AM

I am a die hearted fan of Airtrl but I really feel sad for BSNL as it is sinking slowly and graduallyEverytime when I visit a BSNL exchange I see that its filled with some people from the 50s and 40s who dosent know even T oftechnology and my God their behaviourSo RUDEI dont understand what do these grandfathers think of themselvesWhereas look at the employees of the private operatorsSo smartThey are paid much less than BSNL but still theydont behave rudelySo obviously why wont people prefer BSNLPeople say that BSNL is good and its network is present in the Siachen and Villiages but how many times are we normal people visiting Siachen and villagesIt all thatmatters is the service that we get from them when we at our home location and in my home locationits better to forget that there is a company called BSNL

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P MANOJ December 26 2013 551 pm 551 PM

Dear Mr Sayantan please remember that the rates of other operators including that of Airtel is not increasing only because BSNL is there in the field

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Rajesh May 24 2014 754 pm 754 PM

I accept with you sayantan I also faced similar problem I was attracted by the network availabilty and plans of bsnl and planned to port The first word i got from my colleague is not to go bsnl as it has the worst customer serviceI was working in a MNC and no one here has bsnl connection except me as we are having very good offers from airtel and better connectivity For porting my no to BSNL i went to the bsnl office and people there are behavingreally rude there attitude is like if you want buy otherwise leave I have been to airtel office and people are behaving really good they are asking my requirement and suggesting plan accordingly I am interested in taking postpaidconnection but consoled myself not to go after seeing their behaviour They are not even ready to tell what offers they are having I finally got my sim after visitng there 5 shy6 times which got fortunately activated I Checked theplan in internet as I have office network and activated plans relavant to me Now i am facing problem with my network connection I am in the hot of the bangalore city Koramangala and i am not having proper 3g connection Itried to reach customer care and when they pick they are simply disconnecting it They are not even ready to wait for us to say hello Now i am repenting my move I submitted my complaint online but not sure whether i will getresponse I planned to wait for some time otherwise planning to move to airtel as spending few bucks extra is better than having no connectivity

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N GUPTA (ANDHRA PRADESH) December 25 2013 909 pm 909 PM

Bsnl making loses because of UPA ndash I and II wrong decisions In 2005 and then it cancelled many expansion plans of bsnl So with less towers i canrsquot server huge customers so from last several years bsnl customers are facing problemsWith this reasons many people reluctant to use BSNL service After Upadhya took charge as a CMD they started expansion this year they are adding 147 millions cell lines with help ZTE All these ZTE towers supports 2G 3G 4GNow upadhaya planing to adopt managed network model In this model like nokia or ericsson or alcatelshylucent take care of bsnl network for ten years If they find any congestation in any area they install new tower immediately Inpresent model it canrsquot start new towers immediately And bsnl converting its network switches from TDM to NGN which is very advanced and capable to serve more customers With TDM technology there is much wastage of networkWith NGN technology they can start IPTV Video on Demand etc So Bsnl has to start new services like IPTV Video on demand etc With these service it can earn more revenue Apart from these first BSNL employees fight with UPAgovt if it stop managed model network expansion plans not for their Salaries or DArsquos or Travel charges

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karthik December 25 2013 632 pm 632 PM

recruit new young guys talented is marketing hr etc give vrs for those willing to go because those cannot bring any +impact to bsnl

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Aslam December 25 2013 518 pm 518 PM

BSNL MAKING HUGE LOSSES BECAYSE ITS RUN BY CORRUPT OFFICIALS WORKING IN INTERESTS OF PRIVATE OPERATORS ONLY MODI CAN SAVE BSNL AND INDIA

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XYZ December 25 2013 732 pm 732 PM

modi coruptless no one is corupless in politics

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susfb December 25 2013 457 pm 457 PM

Foremost thing is that BSNL is a service provider and not a business group established for making profit Employees are recruited for maintaining the telecom services and not for marketing Leave these employees for technicalmaintenance form separate marketing wing with young talented guys with marketing aptitude

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Hariharan A December 25 2013 443 pm 443 PM

I appreciate your analasis and suggestion for improvement of bsnl to get profitI have aleady sent my views through my mailBy adopting this Ibelieve bsnl will get profit within 21 monthsshy3 months for consideration of plan and 18months for execute the planBsnl existence is very essential not only for safety of our country but also arrest private operators earning more money from customers for examble we know that they charged for incoming and out goingcalls with high rate before we enter the cell businessThanking you sirHariharan A SrtoaBsnl employee Nagercoil division Tamil nadu Circle

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pradeep December 26 2013 1056 pm 1056 PM

fully agreed with u sirndash pradeepcommon man

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Hariharan A December 25 2013 325 pm 325 PM

The retirment age of the bsnl officials may be reduced from 60 to 58yearswhich will decrease the salary expenditure to a certain extentYoung energetic and enthusiastic engineering graduates may be recruited as apprentice trainees fortwo years to compete with other operators in the fast developing technology after that they may be prefered for regular post Periodically inspectio and surprise check up should be conducted by the officerswhich will help theimprovement of serviceAll nationalisedscheduled banks should be approached for opening ATM centers in BSNL officesas minimum 30 centre in each districtby this we can crores of rupees as profitAlso shopping complex may be constructed in BSNLvacant land by availing bank loan taking advance amount from prospective customers for offering the same for rentPunctuality in duty should be inculcated among staff from top to bottom by introducing card punching which is connected with salary packageThe above practice will yield fruitfull resultIncentiveHonararium payment may be made by means of Top up cards intead of cash paymentsBy fixing a target date for disposal all idle and obsolute storesthe unserviceable stores should be disposed offVacant buildings and BSNL quarters may be given rent for GovtSemi GovtPSU whereever possibleThe tariff benefits and offers should resemble to private operatorsThen only BSNL will survivegtProcedures for international roaming should be simplified like private operatorsPrepaid plans may be rationalisegttop ups and planvalidity voucher may be merged togetherVRS to employees by getting loan from bank is not inteligable

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KOTESWARARAONERELLA December 25 2013 1018 am 1018 AM

MrChetan has very correctly and dispassionately analysed the plus and minuses of BSNLAs a retired senior officer of DOTBSNL I fully agree with MrChetanBasically the staff 100 lines ratio is high in BSNL when compared withother private telcos who got very less staff for 100 lines and consequently the pay bill with pay revison commissions increase along with other central employees thereby major part goes to salariesThese staff were NOT RECRUITEDBY BSNL BUT CAME AS A LEGACY OF DOT and they have to be continued or given VRS with a GOOD GOLDEN HANDSHAKE FOR WHICH THE GOVTHAS TO FINANCE AROUND 10K cores which they are notreleasing2 The staff recruited in 1980s are RAW candidates with little education and they may not be able to express confidently in English with customers and at the most in local language also they have to learn speak polished language whichis to be imparted at Training centres3A few thousands Engineering graduates have been directly recruited as JTO (Junior Telecm Officer ) and TTAs (Telecom Technical Assistants) and these people are not being trained in HRD in the trainng centres to the desired extentthereby they are not being fully exploited4The DOT has to REFUND around 8000shy crores for the BWA spectrum returned back in 2011 and eventhough the GOM has recommened to refund in which FM and MOC are members yet the money is not yet givenIf given then the

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RED will become GREEN in the balance sheet5Supply of Instrumentscables jointing kitsdrop wires etc which are required for EXTERNAL PLANT MAINTENANCE AND DIRECTLY NEEDED FOR THE SUBSCRIBER are in poor supplyI am told they are keepingsometimes RECOVERED AND REPAIRED PHONE INSTRUMENTS TO NEW CUSTOMERS and this should be stopped to increase customer satisfaction6Govt while creating BSNL PSU in 2000 gave lot of promises that it will do all help and take care the needs of PSU but practically there is no such thing either in CASH OR KIND7Even for CAPEX and OPEX BSNL is struggling year after year and atleast the SPECTRUM CHARGES WHICH HAVE BEEN THE HIGHEST PAID BY BSNL shuold be refunded so that it will be on rails and run with full steam tocontinue public patronage which will not be allowed to be done by the private telcos who are waiting for the BSNL not to be a serious contestant against their interest

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Darshan December 25 2013 402 pm 402 PM

Ohh so its due to govthellip$shyiexcl| on the govt due to which bsnl going in red sheetshellip

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shekhar December 25 2013 908 am 908 AM

Make it private sell it Bharti Reilance anybody Free it from Red tapism ITS and Line man culture

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kalyankar December 29 2013 938 pm 938 PM

BOSS DONT WORRY WHEN BSNL IS SOLD TO PRIVATE FIRMS U WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE CALLS WITH PAISAShelliphelliphelliphellipBUT WITH BULK OF RUPEES REQUIRE TO MAKE AND RECIEVE CALLS

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sanjay April 10 2014 205 pm 205 PM

u r right sir

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sanjay April 10 2014 206 pm 206 PM

u r absolutely right kalyankarhellip

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Nazeer Ahmed December 25 2013 905 am 905 AM

The suggesstion given by MrS Chetan are good but Babus at top level of BSNL need changed in their mindset they are shirkers donot want any responsibility and only want handful of salary Other operators sit on the footpath and selltheir SIM card with a xerox machine copy your ID proof with the xerox machine and give cards Can this be done by the BSNL Babus The activation will be done within hours but in BSNL they ask so many question to issue SIMAddress proof apart from Driving licence or PAN card This is how BSNL is sinking

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Debabrata Dutta Kolkata December 25 2013 316 am 316 AM

For last one month missed call alert of BSNL Kolkata is not working on my numberhelliphellip any body facing the same problem has the missed call alert number 17010 been changed I have diverted to 17010 under not reachablecondition but its still not working in Kolkata Kindly reply helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

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Kaushik Roy December 25 2013 942 am 942 AM

yes for me also BSNL MCA is not working and I diverted to 17010

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Kaushik Roy December 24 2013 937 pm 937 PM

Majority people will not use BSNL as primary numbers since its network goes down on a regular basis and one can not rely on it 100 specially single SIM usersOnly for roamers and travellers BSNL is useful for its great coverage I have seen many places in rural areas only BSNL signal is available and no other operator even AshyVOshyID are not there In places like Kolkata people can rely onother network than BSNL But for rural places BSNL is a good optionI used BSNL as my secondary number but I switched off the number majority times when I am in Kolkata I use it only for roaming with plan 199 which gives 180 days roaming incoming free except DelhiMumbai and Jammu ampKashmir and believe me in roaming I did not face much problem with BSNL

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BP Singh December 24 2013 928 pm 928 PM

Links of websites for lodging your Compliant amp Grievances against BSNL and there by improving its work culture

httpmisbsnlcoinpgsinternetpgwebregnaspBefore lodging any complaint to Higher authority make sure that you have approached middle amp lower Mgmt Keep proofs of it

Government Department Related Complaintshttpwwwpgportalgovin

RTI Onlinehttpwwwrtionlinegovin

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sanjay April 10 2014 223 pm 223 PM

BP singhrsquo ji why BSNL is not giving Adrsquos like using mobile more is harmful to brainears as medically prooved while Landline is harmless please create a awareness of use of Landline

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vivek December 24 2013 609 pm 609 PM

The retailer of bsnl dorsquot know what is MNP and what is current tariff in bsnl Then how satishfy a customer that there tariff is best The main reason of bsnl to go in decreasing revenue is that the customer not attracted toward bsnlbecause they dorsquot know what is current scheme of BSNL If you go private shop and ask them for sim then they would not suggest for bsnl If you ask for bsnl then they told that call rate is costly you can not get recharge at each shopsound quality is not good and without asking they suggest you about scheme of private service provider What is reason that they not appreciate bsnl because bsnl not give sufficient share as private give Second thing is BSNL customercare If your balance deduced in wrong way and if you complain for it then they told you that I dorsquot have right to refund your money but they will never tell that I am trying to refund your money by telling appropriate authority Insteadthey give email id and told you that you can contact to appropriate authority by sending email If you told them please sir send me email address then they told sir I donrsquot have right send to sms if you contact that email id you willalways got permanently failure of email

So you can think how good customer care service of BSNL

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Arun K G December 24 2013 852 pm 852 PM

BSNL is giving 55 of MRP on every rechargeTOP up to retailers which is higher among all private operators

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mr rai December 24 2013 541 pm 541 PM

bsnl is run by corrupt babus and ministers hence it will always make huge loss and suck common man blood money

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Arun K G December 24 2013 854 pm 854 PM

Can you tell any goverment public enterprise which donrsquot have any ind of curreption

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AA December 24 2013 523 pm 523 PM

BSNL is the legacy of the govt they will neither abondone nor let it function it is a source of corruption I am sure BSNL will continue to survive for the selfish motivies of the babus

Unless QoS and accountability improves nothing else is possible the effective way to use bsnl is to use it as backup (secoundary) number Bsnl is not in the business race hence forget about drastic improvement The least you expectthe happier you are

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rahul December 24 2013 457 pm 457 PM

bsnl plan validity scheme should change out it gives only 6 month validity to compete than others private companies gives near bout 3 years validity and after time goes on validity automatically increased but in bsnl validity game islike a supari killer who contract for a money and have a crime just like bsnl also make compulsion of validity recharge to keep active also sound quality of a call is bull shit and several drawbacks must removed

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Umesh Singh December 24 2013 250 pm 250 PM

1) BSNL should be allowed to give political parties funding so that it can get tailored made policies like other private operator

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narapareddyp December 24 2013 237 pm 237 PM

In my district(anantapurap) BSNL have 3G network only in few areaswe want more 3G NETWORK

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D Rajendra December 24 2013 135 pm 135 PM

13 yrs have been passed after merger from DOT to BSNL(PSU) but no corporate work culture is devloped among the employeesThis may be one of the reasonsSo first step to make BSNL profitable to motive and wtrngthen themarketing culture

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RKrishna Rao December 24 2013 105 pm 105 PM

The employees and their unionsassociations of BSNL had continuously raised issues concerning the development and expansion of the services Much more to be done to improve the services The mindshyset of the employees needs to befurther improved to face the present challenges and for ensuring a better service to the customers They should always remember that they are important stakeshyholders of the company and at the service of the nation and its people Theyshould educate the employees to seek the support of people for strengthening BSNL

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Abhijit December 24 2013 1256 pm 1256 PM

BSNL can come in profit by charging heavily to its customers who are already paying more than the service quality

hellip just joking as that will end BSNL

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Ganesh December 24 2013 1245 pm 1245 PM

Hey very good pointsI agree with anti corruption measures I bought a new BSNL landline and the line men came 1 week late and they didnrsquot even give the line properly (no dial tone) and when I said thanks they were like give us some money (instead ofthanks) I gave them 20 rupees and they were like who wants those I just told them that I didnrsquot have any Then they went away leaving that 20 But even after 1 week there was no dial tone I then had to complaint to the officials aboutthe line and then they fixed it after 7 days

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Sunil December 24 2013 1228 pm 1228 PM

Infrastructure and network of BSNL are good in comparison to other operators But only the thing to advertise the product tariffand services through employee working in BSNL Employees are only waiting for perks salary hike andother benifits they do not know the latest product and tariff of BSNL Employee working at customer service centre use to watch the time for lunch and closing the officeSome employeesofficers who are not working and even notsigning in files are enjoying service but few dedicated employeesofficer who are working hard are facing inquiries served with charge sheets due to complaints made by fellow lazy employees and contractorsupplier who wish to earnfake money without working Strict discipline is must

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Dr GL Kamei December 24 2013 1210 pm 1210 PM

Chethan S I do appreciate your suggestion c per c My Dad too serving in BSNL in Gr A executive post who I rely everything but he mention about BSNL downfall for which I am worried I am working in a med Institute after my Postshygraduationand my brother would be a med graduate very soon My Brother refuse to use BSNL Product for its poor performances I would upload comments later on

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seema December 24 2013 1207 pm 1207 PM

Lack of strong customer support is ofcourse a reason for the poor performance of BSNL but as indians we should understand BSNLs social commitment it is not profit oriented alone unlike other private operatorsSo do support BSNL LONG LIVE BSNL

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kalyankar December 29 2013 942 pm 942 PM

THANKS SEMMA GOOD COMMENTShellip

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sanjay April 10 2014 214 pm 214 PM

u r right seema

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KK Chaudhary December 24 2013 1033 am 1033 AM

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Condition of BSNL is like Nai in Thakurrsquos Barat

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Vishal Jaiswal December 24 2013 906 am 906 AM

I agree with ur views MrKumar but to cut the losses some decisons in a balanced manner has to taken like VRS for 50+ or 55+ employes to reduce no of employees Use of private agencies to market their product etc etc For a PSUprofit generation is never a motive but generating such a huge loss is also not acceptable

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krishan kumar December 24 2013 234 pm 234 PM

Vishal Jaiswal Can anyone think why BSNL in loss not because it can not make profit

VRS can reduce 50 salary expenditure of BSNL which is about 7700 Cr But giving VRS is like rdquo throw your parents out of your home because they are aged and not capable to contribute as much as they had contributed intheir time for the homerdquo

If BSNL Headed by ambani or others they can throw them even profit was reduced

BSNL is going to install GSM BTS naxalite area for our Defence forces not for profit BSNL know that to run GSM BTS in naxalite area is very difficult and incurred huge expenditure

BSNL going to ring connectivity to East area where revenue is in few crores not for profit but for the people of the country

It all depends on us rdquo If we want BSNL to live who act for the country peoplerdquoIndian Politician doing their best effort to sell BSNL to fill their pockets

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kmalakondaiah December 24 2013 838 am 838 AM

sir i appreciate your analasis and suggestions for improvementi am adding following points ror reaching profits1) attituderespectfriendly atmospherepatience listiningcaringimportancehelping naturepositive approachgood bodylanguage towards custmers is very very very essentials and invitableBSNL is now improving stage when comparedto PampT and DOT but not reached 100 to reach 100 behaviour traing and counselling is required to BSNL employees2) next quality of service shy borodband modemstelephone instrumentsdropwire etc topquality is to be choosen instead of poor qualitythe PampT and DOT slogan lowest price is to be forgotten and high quality is to be kept in mind whileprocuring stores3)maintinance of BTS(cell towers)shy is to be improved by provisionmaintainnig generatorsbattery sets 4)attending brodband complints on top priority5)the average age of bsnl employee is 50 yrsso the existing young jtorsquos and ttas clerksare to be posted in custmer service centers and cell towers maintinaceOr by hiring youngsters between 18shy25 years the 5 lakh employees come down to 25 lakhs now it will comedown to 2 lakhs by 2015BSNL existance is very much essential for the safety our country and to arrest private operators earning money from custemersfor example when the introduction of mobiles by private operators you know they charged for incoming andoutgoing calls at very very high rateswhen BSNL allowed to start mobiles they tariff come down and all the custmers were benifitedfinally one common problem facing by all the custemers from all the telecom operatots is shy some amount is deducting without knowledgeconsent of custemers by means of content providers servicesvalue added servicesall custemersare suffering and bitterly complining on this cheating processThis is highly objectionable and against to indian constitutionso i request all the custemers and eminent people to take all stps to arrest this cheatingi specially requestsupreme court lawers to takeup this issue and stop this cheating

kmalakondaiahBSNL employeevisakhapatnam andhrapradesh

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DrSrinagesh Poduri June 3 2014 1050 am 1050 AM

Dear Malakondaiah garu I am now at Australia If you remember I met you last month I am from Bhimili I purchased a postpaid connection with International Roaming after reaching here when I tried to activate it says thatthe SIM card registration failed Could you please check if the card has been activated for international roaming Thank you

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krishan kumar December 24 2013 1247 am 1247 AM

I want to share some point about BSNL

1 BSNL is feeding 254 Lakh family in india where as other private operator having 5 to 10 of this 70 employees are more than 50+ can they exist in other telecom company2 BSNL still running Landline services in rural areas and facing a loss of 10000 Cr per year where no other operate even think to go in dream3 BSNL still running more than 1000 exchanges where monthly revenue is about 5000 to 6000 but bill of electricity and security in about one lakh per month4 BSNL is giving broadband services in thousands of rural exchange where other operator not even ready to edge network5 In my district BSNL have 3G network in all taluka where only few operator have 3G network in district only I am living in city where Asia largest refinery exist6 Can you imagine the tariff rates AirtelVodafone and Idea If BSNL not in market7 BSNL have its connectivity in lehladakh amarnath siachen etc only for the person who protect our country can touch with their family in such tough condition

there are so many points otherhelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip which makes BSNL for country

If BSNL wants to be become in profit it can be done in 6 monthshelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

1 Reduce employees strength upto 30000 and make unemployment for about 220 lakh employees Airtel having revenue 40000 cr having only 25000 employees3 Close all rural exchanges and cut them from indian economy and save about 10000 Cr per year This is enough to make BSNL in profit4 Close all 3G BTS in rural where it can unable to generate revenue equal to its electricity bill to running the BTS5 Close all BTS in remote area and make Indian defence force to suffer

there are hundreds of point other which BSNL can do to become in profit

I agree BSNL has lots of drawback but imagine the condition of India without BSNL

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Tharun George December 24 2013 815 am 815 AM

BSNL can do the following practical things to get profitable1 Close the landline service and replace all landline with WLL phones For broadband replace with 3GI am telling this because in my area BSNL is not giving both landline or broadband saying line not available2 BSNL is getting paid by UOF fund from Gov to put BTS in remote areas and nexal areas3 In Kerala Idea has more tower in rural area than BSNL Almost all towers of Idea are now 3G But BSNL has only started expanding 3G in 3 years

BSNL is not the only organization with large employees Look at railway largest Gov employer in India Still its running without much loss

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AK December 24 2013 1125 am 1125 AM

Railway has incurred Rs60000 cr loss

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Tharun George December 24 2013 235 pm 235 PM

Indian Railways(From wikipedia)Revenue Increase to INR 12568 billion (US$19 billion) (2012ndash13)Net income Increase to INR 1041 billion (US$16 billion) (2012ndash13)

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Pravat Kumar Das December 24 2013 1256 pm 1256 PM

Very good point about BSNL thanks

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rangarajan December 24 2013 308 pm 308 PM

sirBSNL has a huge work force to be reduced by VRS (VOL REmoval scheme) already i informed authority to work with 30000 to get profit but CMD is calm cos he is retiring in June 2014rangarajan

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A RAO December 24 2013 423 pm 423 PM

All private operators do business BSNL gives Services to public BSNL wants profit it can come with in a year profit by doing business like private opertorsBSNL moto is to give best possible services to public in every corner ofIndia and it is ready to give restore immediately the communication when disastrous rains floods etc occures then the private operators for example a Appreciation letter from Govt of India received for restoration communicationservices at Uttarkand in june 2013 when a big disastrous happened

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sanjay April 10 2014 216 pm 216 PM

good comments sir

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kalyankar December 29 2013 945 pm 945 PM

SIR GOOD COMMENTShelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

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sand December 23 2013 1112 pm 1112 PM

chetan

My idea is that bsnl should have tailor made plans and also special offers for customers who make good amount of rechargesA gift would always make a consumer feel important and he would stick around

Postpaid is the greatest revenue generatorBring down the security deposits at par or lower than private firmsCouple it with the fair and transparent billing of bsnl and they will be instant hit

Have a greatly responsible cust care that responds

Cut down broadband prices now instead of doing it wen maybe 4g brings down tariffs and people have already migratedcustomer loyalty always has its own magic

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sand December 23 2013 1107 pm 1107 PM

Chetan

In my mail apart from the complaints i had mentioned these same things to the CMD as some ideasI dont know if he took any notice of that but since his office acted on the complaint i guess he took notice

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sand December 23 2013 1104 pm 1104 PM

chetan

I have been complaining for the last 2 yrs to fix the bsnlsupportFinally last month i decided to escalate matters furtherI sent my complaint to the CMD of BSNL with the kerala circle head in ccThis was my final attemptIt workedI got a mail back from CMD SECTTAlso complaints of mine were being called up and followed up by the circle head or someone in keralaIf you dont trust me i could put the screen shot of the reply i got hereI think all bsnlcustomers should try thisI even offered the CMD the recorded call with customer care which gave me a 53 min hold timeI think since we choose to vent our anger here and there an dnot take it up in the official way we get no replies or fixesIf every consumer facing the issue instead complains and follows it up and makes sure it gets heard then yes we candefinitly make changes

I ask every bsnl customer to do the same and then we will see the changesDont give up by porting or adjustGet ur voice heard

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k thirmal reddy December 23 2013 1036 pm 1036 PM

Here I should mention thatIf there is any PSU in India without itrsquos own responsible and accountable top managementthat is the one and only BSNLIt is a peculiar situation in BSNLEven after 13 years of its formation it still workslike a Govtdept Definitely there are a handful of top managers of impeccable integrity and concern for itwho can make things happen The best trained executives and prime assets and latest infra are the core strengths They should notbe underestimated The non performing assets to be made performing through innovative methods There are constraintsProfit making is not the ultimate visionbut Hope BSNL shall survive and come up with flags to enhance value inthe hands of customers and save the people of India from the clutches of private coSif Govt has the will to serve the people through BSNL

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b m b December 23 2013 1025 pm 1025 PM

UPA Govt should release all Dues pending from DOT some schemes to be announces like Ex MOS Paswanji schemes of Rs500connectionOfficialsofficers of GOVT should use BSNLHON MOC can look in bottle neck GSMnetworks needs of BSNL

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Vikas agarwal December 23 2013 956 pm 956 PM

I do not think now BSNL can compete with Private operatorsOne SDE of BSNL namely Sailash yadav of Faridabad earning black money and nobody is taking any action against himhe is working in tax section

So if condition like these continues and strict action if not taken then people will fed up from BSNl

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Darshan Malu December 23 2013 944 pm 944 PM

It should be published in newspapers media everywherehellipso that RK upadhya will know abt ithellipor your efforts going 2 b utter wastehellipplz possible mail this post to media mails like to TOI or NDTV or ET or anywhete possiblei amsure they will appreciate u r efforts and will publish themhellip

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Ducts December 23 2013 940 pm 940 PM

Nothing is going to improveIndia is a country where the top officials r oldhellipu can c our pmhellipeven with bsnl same thinghellipthat rk upadhay i think can even not operate his email id i think bcuz after sending so many email that man doesnt even have sense ofreplyinghellipuck u r company n sry not company actually u n ur corrupt teamhellipSaala samajhta nahi its nly our indiarsquos losshellipif u c ATampThellipDue 2 its QoS people dont even think to go for TshymobilehellipIndian government koh bhi samajtha nahi to appoint youngsters in such job by seeing what he actually knows n with gud marketting skillshellipWTF even after having pan india 3G lincense one would had taken advantage of it n make company to move forwardhellipRk upadhay u just take retirement u r mind age has no more ideas its time u r mind needs SANYAS

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Rishabh December 23 2013 1041 pm 1041 PM

+100000000

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Akhil Mohan December 23 2013 913 pm 913 PM

My experienceFor the last two weeks there is no internet in my 3G connection It connects but no data transfer takes place Registered a complaint with the no 9400000198 an waited for their call for 1 week but no one called me and today i received amessage saying your complaint has been closedHow will a company like this ever make profit If govt tries to bail out BSNL i may even try to go to court to prevent that because public dont need to pay for their wrong doings and inefficency

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derik December 23 2013 843 pm 843 PM

BSNL IS THE BEST IN KERALA AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE THE MARKET LEADER VERY SOONhelliphellipI LOVE BSNLhelliphellip

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LShobha December 23 2013 812 pm 812 PM

I would like to comment on corruption Eradicating corruption should be TOP DOWN approach and not BOTTOM UP approach Corruption cannot be cleansed from lineman to CMD but the other way around BSNL is a governmentcompany and obviously it will be a reflection of how our government is being run ndash scam ridden ndash Coalgate 2G Maharashtra dam scandalCommonwealth games scandal Robert Vadra Scandal mining scandal etc etc As the sayinggoes ndash ldquoYathah Raja Thathah PrajardquoBSNL has its share of scams within ndash awarding of contracts by top management to Boston Consulting Group appointing brand ambassadors to Ms Preity Zinta Deepika Padukone without any tangible result Perhaps the biggest ofthem all is the BSNL CDMA services Crores of public money invested without any revenueAs for the employees it is better to offer VRS to all the DOT recruited employees and hand over the organisation to the BSNL recruited youngsters and make them more accountableFinally BSNL should continue to exist in the larger interests of the countryrsquos security The government can not allow the Mittals Ambanis Tatas and Birlas to pocket crores of rupees money to gift aeroplanes to their wives and celebrateglitzy and glamorous wedding anniversaries and build Antilias with helicopter landing pads

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joseph joy christopher December 23 2013 747 pm 747 PM

BSNL Lags in1)proper plans2)no permanent tariff some plan came within 2 weekrsquos it will be removed eg 12rs roaming pack3)bad customer service4) even using gprs packs is not allowed in tn circle on black out days even with pack it is chargable

Prorsquos1)core network in all arearsquos

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SAHIL December 23 2013 703 pm 703 PM

BSNL CAN NEVER AND WILL NEVER IMPROVE OR CHANGE BECAUSE ITS RUN BY CORRUPT CRONIES OF PRIVATE OPERATORS AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS WHOSE ONLY AGENDA IS TO DESTROY BSNLAND BENEFIT PRIVATE OPERSTORS BSNL IS ALREADY ANOTHER AIR INDIA IN MAKING ULTIMATELY BSNL LOSSES WILL BE FUNDED FROM INDIAN CONSUMERS AND TAX PAYERS HARD EARNEDMONEY BUT AFTER 2014 ELECTIONS MODI WILL CLEAN UP THESE CORRUPT PEOPLE AND BSNL WILL IMPROVE

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Panditji December 23 2013 621 pm 621 PM

It is completely true that BSNL does not care its customers I surrendered a BSNL land line connection in Muzaffarpur Bihar only because of its employees After many request to its concern officials (even to higher official BSNLMuzaffarpur) no proper step was taken for a long period but every bishymonth i was served with a suitable bill and finally i unwillingly surrendered the connection This is what BSNL officials care its customers If this situation remainscontinued BSNL will never go in profit

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Satheesh December 23 2013 606 pm 606 PM

Myself is a BSNL employee I think the real problem lies with the TOP management Top level management is still DOT staff and deputation to BSNL Most of them are least bothered about the future of the Company and they are onlyburocrats and no professionalism which is the need of the hour They are not at all accountable for their activities and not ready to accept the feedback given by other stake holders such as employees franchisees etc Only proffessionalmanagement can rescue the organisation

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js December 23 2013 833 pm 833 PM

The pathetic state of the BSNL is purely because of the very bad attitude of the employees Employees are only interested in salary hike for every pay commission and spend least time in office If you want to see the attitude of theemployees you should go to an exchange or customer care center As a BSNL employee did you recommend any of your family or relatives to use BSNL product Do you know all details of BSNL products provided in your circleFirst BSNL employee should confidently market the product with their friends and relatives and they are the prime source of brand building They will blame BSNL then how they will be able to build the brand 2lakhs employeesif they try their best then BSNL can be profitable within 6months Customers need BSNL service but if BSNL can reach customers then people will always opt for it BSNL has the best tariff plans best coverage and no hiddencharges So only attitude of the employees should change not higher officials It is just an excuse to runaway from responsibilities by blaming higher officials This is what always BSNL employees union do

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Akhil Mohan December 23 2013 915 pm 915 PM

No body wants BSNL to improve Please shutdownhellip

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js December 24 2013 954 am 954 AM

AkhilBefore commenting on this you should know India first 90 percentage of mobile users do not want 3G or 4G or any data use They use mobile only to contact near and dear ones BSNL is the only service provider whoprovided service in rural areas small panchayats naxal affected areas and even Jammu and Kashmir where our soldiers are totally depending on BSNL network to contact their near and dear ones Pvt providers only look atprofit and even betray nation for the sake of money All defence orgs can only depend on BSNL and not any other service provider In UK customers did an agitation against vodafone on not paying the tax But in Indiacustomers will get more attracted by just the brand name and since it is a foreign operator and even though they do all tax frauds

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SS December 24 2013 1131 am 1131 AM

I still believe that vodafone tax case is completely non sense When vodafone acquired hutch there was no such law to tax transactions between companies incorporated outside india (the same supreme court ruled)Now they changed law to extract money by hook or by crook Is this a way

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krishna December 23 2013 516 pm 516 PM

Sometimes the strength becomes weakness The same is happening in BSNL ie Excess staff (Comparing with Private operators) is one of the reason for loss The management should take some bold decisions like giving VRSminimising retirement age from 60 to 58 (as major CPSU had the retirement age as 58)

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Chandra Sekhar Mandal December 23 2013 430 pm 430 PM

Previously i was using BSNL because it was giving 8 GB 2G [although i was getting 3G speed every time i recharged on my sim] data for just Rs219 for 30 days But after they unified 2G and 3G packs i did no recharge on that BSNL

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sim and its validity is also over I was a BSNL customer just because data purposeBSNL GO TO HELLhellip

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id December 23 2013 826 pm 826 PM

still its cheaper than others tariff

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deril December 23 2013 851 pm 851 PM

poor

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BatMAn December 23 2013 430 pm 430 PM

The funniest thing i have noticed isWhen ever Electricity in my area is down the same timethe BSNL network signal will be zero after a few minutes signal will be restored(Even if Electricity is Restored or not)i think they are have to start the DG Manuallyor No proper UPShellipif we are in a call the call will be doped Bsnl Karnataka Circle

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Rama December 23 2013 332 pm 332 PM

SaurabhHow did you know that BSNL has given out contract to expand netwrok in north indiaif you have any other source than tt and economic times would you please share it

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SS December 23 2013 322 pm 322 PM

This isnrsquot a new news This was expected and it happened Thanks to the worst management of bsnl In my circle up east there are fairly large no Of customers but ironically only 42 are active as per trairsquos report On the other handvodafone has 9970 active users and its 2g services are superior among all here My father uses bsnl only for 151shy400 mins tariff and would surely dump it if they ditch that scheme

Data services are worst than hell in bsnl For 20 days of month 2g data remains down and 3g goes down many times a day

Interconnectivity problems in bsnl are not uncommon Last time they blocked calls to vodafone for 2 months and only bsnl customers suffered I use airtel in delhi and its awesome in quality of service No single issue to complain aboutIn up east i use idea because of its robust 3g network all over the state Bsnl must to learn from them

But bsnl in far more superior than tata docomo reliance gsm aircel Lets hope that they improve

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Adil December 23 2013 950 pm 950 PM

ss i always use to agree to you but this time in climax i deny to your comment bsnl is worst than all operator whether it is docomo aircel reliance in fact uninor is far better than bsnlhellipthat is why uninor is making positive cashflow where as bsnl dying

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Aam Admi December 23 2013 221 pm 221 PM

ldquo8 Shut down loss making telephone exchanges or the ones which bring less revenue ndash many people opt for landline just due to broadband benefits through such exchanges (mainly rural) 3G data cards at special prices could beencouraged at such placesrdquo

As you already know 3G data cards are not a substitute to wired broadband I pay around 1000 INR for a broadband connection while living in a rural area Irsquom ready to pay more if BSNL can offer a 1 Mbps unlimited without FUPplan I keep my line only for broadband(a lot of people)

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Chethan S December 23 2013 713 pm 713 PM

Though I enjoy good quality Beam Fiber connection here in Hyderabad my familyrsquos situation is like yours back in my home town Our home falls in a BSNL Rural exchangersquos limits There particularly in the rainy season due tothunderstorms BSNL officials power off the telephone exchange during nights and even during weekends as an anticipatory measure depriving us of broadband connectivity Having a night unlimited connection we find itextremely the difficult to use internet within data usage limits As you said 3G data card is certainly not an alternative to wired broadband but if service is not good 3G at special rates would be welcome

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Tharun George December 23 2013 153 pm 153 PM

The only reason I am on BSNL is for cheap 3G and good 2G coverage All other things of BSNL are worst Call rates are not that low 2G internet is pathetic cannot even open google It takes 45min to get connected to customer careNetwork busy low quality sound

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prithvi December 23 2013 336 pm 336 PM

Exactly +1 BSNL

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Sugu December 23 2013 835 pm 835 PM

Tharun Well thatrsquos really surprising coz I have never faced such situation once when i had a problem ie Rs5 being deducted every week for no reason I went to their Thirunakkara Office and complained 2 days later Ireceived an SMS saying that my issue had been solved and even refunded me About the tariff in my knowledge it is providing cheapest base tariff among the operators i know I may be wrong and about 2G speed i always geta speed above 10kBshere is my speed test 2G httpwwwspeedtestnetmyshyresulta674883594

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Tharun George December 24 2013 827 am 827 AM

BSNL never deducted nay of my money As far as tariff go it is as high as private Most plans are 15ps and only mithram plan has 13ps STV are also costly

10KBs is very very low Your ping is very bad PING 903 ms Try opening gmail with it I have tested all operators 2G speed in Kerala Here are the resultDocomoshy 236kbpsAircelshy 225kbps (Shutdown)Relianceshy 225kbpsIdea ndash 170kbpsVodafone ndash 140kbpsAirtel ndash 100kbpsBSNL ndash 100kbps

For 3G BSNL has speed between 1shy2mbps But Idea 3G gives 6mbps at most time I use Reliance for 2G internet and calling Rs 74 STV gives 1p2sec for 6 months Lowest tariff in India

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Tharun George December 24 2013 830 am 830 AM

By the way you went to Kottayam office to get Rs 5 back Once I had gone there to pay Rs 4 bill for landline They laughed at me and asked how much Bus fare I spend to get there

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sugu December 24 2013 220 pm 220 PM

I said above 10kBs And it deducted Rs5 for 4 weeks I did not say anything about the refund but still they did and about 3G after 1030 I always get only about 50shy70kBs at home But at the morning it flies of to500shy700kBs when I went to my friendrsquos home at kumaranellor therersquos even H+ and I downloaded 270MB under 8 minuteshellipBus fare lol Vadavathoor to Old bus standhellip 6rshellip lolhellipBTW only 4rs landline what was your plan I hardly use tye landline the connection is only to avail broadband

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Tharun George December 24 2013 700 pm 700 PM

Vadavathoor We are so close yet meet online I am here just before Manarcad I most signal from Vadavathoor tower

I used to pay for 1 year for landline + broadband Some times exceed and they send Rs 2 or Rs 4 bills by postal Postage itself is Rs 4 for them

Disconnected BSNL broadband and landline this month I have Asianet broadband and Relaince 2G If you are using BSNL Broadband better switch to Asianet 4mbps broadband plans

I used to get 3G signal from BSNL tower at vadavathoor But 2 months ago BSNL added 3G to Rubber Board tower BTW I get signal for all private operators from Vadavathoor Does Docomo have tower atVadavathoor I am complaining for past 5 years to them about no coverage

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Sugu December 25 2013 527 pm 527 PM

Ah I think not Actually where does Docomo have towers My home is 2KM away from Thirunakkara Mostly I walk By the time I reach home BSNL will have switched through 3Towers (all 3G)while Docomo still remains connected to Thirunakkara I just get 1bar of range here and if I go to the hall no coverage Even when I went to my friends house 5km away its the same towerhellipIf you use android then download Network Signal Info it gives all details about that tower

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Riju VV December 23 2013 1029 pm 1029 PM

Bsnl kerala already introduced new customer care 9400000198No need to wait just call and enter your number They will call you back

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Tharun George December 24 2013 828 am 828 AM

You have to wait for there call back Which will take 30min ndash 1 hour

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Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 832 pm 832 PM

They never called me back for my complaint

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Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 830 pm 830 PM

Idea is now giving 1GB data for Rs 123 as a special offer

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Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 144 pm 144 PM

BSNL network is dead in Kaikhali near Kolkata Airport Area for last 10 daysIt seems that BSNL network is dead in so many places of Kolkata and they are not aware of BSNL fault and it forces people to use non BSNL SIMs

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Partha December 23 2013 842 pm 842 PM

Kaushik I live in Haldiram area near kaikhali and I did not face the problem you mentioned even for one day What was your exact location is it just beside Airport area

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Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 1054 pm 1054 PM

Partha There are few towers surrounding Kaikhali near your area haldiramHaldiram cell info display is KENDRIYA VIHAR (ABC) which is working fine and I get its signal from Outside my home but inside its stength is NIL Only I get cell info KAMALAPUR(ABC) ampDASODRONE(ABC) with 1 bar from balcony with fluctuation every 1 minuteBut the tower with KAIKHALI(ABC) cell info is not working from last 10 days which is the nearest tower from my house which is situated at Main road of VIP

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Kaushik Roy December 26 2013 1119 pm 1119 PM

Finally BSNL cell info (KAIKHALI ABC) tower started working from tonight after almost 12 days

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Saurabh December 23 2013 127 pm 127 PM

Since they gave tender for expansion in North zone I hope that their service will get better in Haryana and 3G will become available by October but none of the things happened Instead their 2G network which was worst before gettingmore and more worst here The indoor signal in my area in whatever house you check is nil to 1 bar only Those living near the BTS also face call drops You canrsquot call without voice cracking The network is just getting to bottom andno one to take care I have BSNL SIM which I recharge only once in a year with Rs34 validity extension to keep it alive as I keep SIM to check service quality

Whenever you call customer care the IVR says ldquoYour extimated hold time is 35 minutes 27 secrdquo and always over it Their CC is complete dumb and people at CSC are just illiterate who has only one answer for all the question ldquoBhaiyeh toh upar waley log decide karenge tabhi upgrade hoga Ab tumhara signal nahi aata toh hum kya karerdquo Their quality is sucking to the bottom at 60shy70 places Their VLR data shows that not even 10 lakh out of 30 lakh subscribersusing it Now you can understand why

Thanks to the private companies like Vodafone and Idea and Airtel also who have ubiquitous network and even after having 3shy4 times of BSNL subscribers their network works like charm and 99 uptime Thanks to Idea for providing3G to city towns villages and everywhere I went it was there Today I donrsquot have a single contact which is of BSNL and those I have are ported out to AVoId only

Videocon has started expansion and now have more active customers than BSNL in Haryana and soon they will have mre than that of Tata and Reliance Their is a limit to stupidity and BSNLhad crossed it since it started The conditionhere is even worst then what it was in 2004 It seems that BSNL is handling 500 customers per tower here which is chocking network all the day Few weeks back their network kept dead for 3 days So those who are on bsnl are losingeverything

I hope they donrsquot launch 3G in towns as their 2G signal is 1 bar on 1800 MHz What it will be on 2100 MHz 3G bandhellip They should save money and never launch 3G in towns in Haryana A slap to BSNL face from me

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John Thomas December 23 2013 116 pm 116 PM

What ever the writer suggested will never been going to implement I am been very long investigating BSNL policies and methodsi found that bsnl is administered by very corrupted ones Inefficient officers are getting on the top The

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main reason why people donrsquot choose bsnl is thateven though if there is a tower nearby to ones homeit is hard to find signal inside their home Government still holds bsnl nothing for but to maintain a security level in communicationof strategic important ones

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Ramesh Darji December 23 2013 1140 am 1140 AM

Dear Sanjay I want address issue of tata docomo not BSNL BSNL is govt company and some can understand but what happen to TataIn gujarat they have 3G but surprisingly they stop expanding 3G coverage Worst ever they switch off many sites in rural areas and highways In gujarat late entrant Uninor and videocon even doing better than tataIts worst ever they offers and schemes Their offer is changing so fast that customer lost trust on themStill they are riding on photon+ in maharastra and mumbai but their time is now over They are not realising adoption of 3G and still their data package is much higherOn the other hand realince and other 3G operator providing much cheaper 3G 156 now for realince 3G 299 for 2GB for MTNL and others are offering goodReliance Joi will launch service in short period and I think BSNL and other private operator who is not much serious about customer choice will be finished

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jz December 23 2013 1126 am 1126 AM

bsnl is cheap and best but didnrsquot know how to encash it

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Vamsi December 30 2013 1009 am 1009 AM

Hi frnd hellipthx for the article and my view was BSNL has a robust network to serve india better than any private company but The main and only obstacle was their employs hellipthe higher authority should initiate necessary steps todeploy corporate style to bsnlhellipbecz we all know that working hours of bsnl employs are not up to the mark so make them(Employes) work and serve better

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Sayantan(Kolkata) December 26 2013 1213 am 1213 AM

I am a die hearted fan of Airtrl but I really feel sad for BSNL as it is sinking slowly and graduallyEverytime when I visit a BSNL exchange I see that its filled with some people from the 50s and 40s who dosent know even T oftechnology and my God their behaviourSo RUDEI dont understand what do these grandfathers think of themselvesWhereas look at the employees of the private operatorsSo smartThey are paid much less than BSNL but still theydont behave rudelySo obviously why wont people prefer BSNLPeople say that BSNL is good and its network is present in the Siachen and Villiages but how many times are we normal people visiting Siachen and villagesIt all thatmatters is the service that we get from them when we at our home location and in my home locationits better to forget that there is a company called BSNL

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P MANOJ December 26 2013 551 pm 551 PM

Dear Mr Sayantan please remember that the rates of other operators including that of Airtel is not increasing only because BSNL is there in the field

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Rajesh May 24 2014 754 pm 754 PM

I accept with you sayantan I also faced similar problem I was attracted by the network availabilty and plans of bsnl and planned to port The first word i got from my colleague is not to go bsnl as it has the worst customer serviceI was working in a MNC and no one here has bsnl connection except me as we are having very good offers from airtel and better connectivity For porting my no to BSNL i went to the bsnl office and people there are behavingreally rude there attitude is like if you want buy otherwise leave I have been to airtel office and people are behaving really good they are asking my requirement and suggesting plan accordingly I am interested in taking postpaidconnection but consoled myself not to go after seeing their behaviour They are not even ready to tell what offers they are having I finally got my sim after visitng there 5 shy6 times which got fortunately activated I Checked theplan in internet as I have office network and activated plans relavant to me Now i am facing problem with my network connection I am in the hot of the bangalore city Koramangala and i am not having proper 3g connection Itried to reach customer care and when they pick they are simply disconnecting it They are not even ready to wait for us to say hello Now i am repenting my move I submitted my complaint online but not sure whether i will getresponse I planned to wait for some time otherwise planning to move to airtel as spending few bucks extra is better than having no connectivity

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N GUPTA (ANDHRA PRADESH) December 25 2013 909 pm 909 PM

Bsnl making loses because of UPA ndash I and II wrong decisions In 2005 and then it cancelled many expansion plans of bsnl So with less towers i canrsquot server huge customers so from last several years bsnl customers are facing problemsWith this reasons many people reluctant to use BSNL service After Upadhya took charge as a CMD they started expansion this year they are adding 147 millions cell lines with help ZTE All these ZTE towers supports 2G 3G 4GNow upadhaya planing to adopt managed network model In this model like nokia or ericsson or alcatelshylucent take care of bsnl network for ten years If they find any congestation in any area they install new tower immediately Inpresent model it canrsquot start new towers immediately And bsnl converting its network switches from TDM to NGN which is very advanced and capable to serve more customers With TDM technology there is much wastage of networkWith NGN technology they can start IPTV Video on Demand etc So Bsnl has to start new services like IPTV Video on demand etc With these service it can earn more revenue Apart from these first BSNL employees fight with UPAgovt if it stop managed model network expansion plans not for their Salaries or DArsquos or Travel charges

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karthik December 25 2013 632 pm 632 PM

recruit new young guys talented is marketing hr etc give vrs for those willing to go because those cannot bring any +impact to bsnl

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Aslam December 25 2013 518 pm 518 PM

BSNL MAKING HUGE LOSSES BECAYSE ITS RUN BY CORRUPT OFFICIALS WORKING IN INTERESTS OF PRIVATE OPERATORS ONLY MODI CAN SAVE BSNL AND INDIA

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XYZ December 25 2013 732 pm 732 PM

modi coruptless no one is corupless in politics

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susfb December 25 2013 457 pm 457 PM

Foremost thing is that BSNL is a service provider and not a business group established for making profit Employees are recruited for maintaining the telecom services and not for marketing Leave these employees for technicalmaintenance form separate marketing wing with young talented guys with marketing aptitude

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Hariharan A December 25 2013 443 pm 443 PM

I appreciate your analasis and suggestion for improvement of bsnl to get profitI have aleady sent my views through my mailBy adopting this Ibelieve bsnl will get profit within 21 monthsshy3 months for consideration of plan and 18months for execute the planBsnl existence is very essential not only for safety of our country but also arrest private operators earning more money from customers for examble we know that they charged for incoming and out goingcalls with high rate before we enter the cell businessThanking you sirHariharan A SrtoaBsnl employee Nagercoil division Tamil nadu Circle

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pradeep December 26 2013 1056 pm 1056 PM

fully agreed with u sirndash pradeepcommon man

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Hariharan A December 25 2013 325 pm 325 PM

The retirment age of the bsnl officials may be reduced from 60 to 58yearswhich will decrease the salary expenditure to a certain extentYoung energetic and enthusiastic engineering graduates may be recruited as apprentice trainees fortwo years to compete with other operators in the fast developing technology after that they may be prefered for regular post Periodically inspectio and surprise check up should be conducted by the officerswhich will help theimprovement of serviceAll nationalisedscheduled banks should be approached for opening ATM centers in BSNL officesas minimum 30 centre in each districtby this we can crores of rupees as profitAlso shopping complex may be constructed in BSNLvacant land by availing bank loan taking advance amount from prospective customers for offering the same for rentPunctuality in duty should be inculcated among staff from top to bottom by introducing card punching which is connected with salary packageThe above practice will yield fruitfull resultIncentiveHonararium payment may be made by means of Top up cards intead of cash paymentsBy fixing a target date for disposal all idle and obsolute storesthe unserviceable stores should be disposed offVacant buildings and BSNL quarters may be given rent for GovtSemi GovtPSU whereever possibleThe tariff benefits and offers should resemble to private operatorsThen only BSNL will survivegtProcedures for international roaming should be simplified like private operatorsPrepaid plans may be rationalisegttop ups and planvalidity voucher may be merged togetherVRS to employees by getting loan from bank is not inteligable

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KOTESWARARAONERELLA December 25 2013 1018 am 1018 AM

MrChetan has very correctly and dispassionately analysed the plus and minuses of BSNLAs a retired senior officer of DOTBSNL I fully agree with MrChetanBasically the staff 100 lines ratio is high in BSNL when compared withother private telcos who got very less staff for 100 lines and consequently the pay bill with pay revison commissions increase along with other central employees thereby major part goes to salariesThese staff were NOT RECRUITEDBY BSNL BUT CAME AS A LEGACY OF DOT and they have to be continued or given VRS with a GOOD GOLDEN HANDSHAKE FOR WHICH THE GOVTHAS TO FINANCE AROUND 10K cores which they are notreleasing2 The staff recruited in 1980s are RAW candidates with little education and they may not be able to express confidently in English with customers and at the most in local language also they have to learn speak polished language whichis to be imparted at Training centres3A few thousands Engineering graduates have been directly recruited as JTO (Junior Telecm Officer ) and TTAs (Telecom Technical Assistants) and these people are not being trained in HRD in the trainng centres to the desired extentthereby they are not being fully exploited4The DOT has to REFUND around 8000shy crores for the BWA spectrum returned back in 2011 and eventhough the GOM has recommened to refund in which FM and MOC are members yet the money is not yet givenIf given then the

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RED will become GREEN in the balance sheet5Supply of Instrumentscables jointing kitsdrop wires etc which are required for EXTERNAL PLANT MAINTENANCE AND DIRECTLY NEEDED FOR THE SUBSCRIBER are in poor supplyI am told they are keepingsometimes RECOVERED AND REPAIRED PHONE INSTRUMENTS TO NEW CUSTOMERS and this should be stopped to increase customer satisfaction6Govt while creating BSNL PSU in 2000 gave lot of promises that it will do all help and take care the needs of PSU but practically there is no such thing either in CASH OR KIND7Even for CAPEX and OPEX BSNL is struggling year after year and atleast the SPECTRUM CHARGES WHICH HAVE BEEN THE HIGHEST PAID BY BSNL shuold be refunded so that it will be on rails and run with full steam tocontinue public patronage which will not be allowed to be done by the private telcos who are waiting for the BSNL not to be a serious contestant against their interest

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Darshan December 25 2013 402 pm 402 PM

Ohh so its due to govthellip$shyiexcl| on the govt due to which bsnl going in red sheetshellip

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shekhar December 25 2013 908 am 908 AM

Make it private sell it Bharti Reilance anybody Free it from Red tapism ITS and Line man culture

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kalyankar December 29 2013 938 pm 938 PM

BOSS DONT WORRY WHEN BSNL IS SOLD TO PRIVATE FIRMS U WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE CALLS WITH PAISAShelliphelliphelliphellipBUT WITH BULK OF RUPEES REQUIRE TO MAKE AND RECIEVE CALLS

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sanjay April 10 2014 205 pm 205 PM

u r right sir

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sanjay April 10 2014 206 pm 206 PM

u r absolutely right kalyankarhellip

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Nazeer Ahmed December 25 2013 905 am 905 AM

The suggesstion given by MrS Chetan are good but Babus at top level of BSNL need changed in their mindset they are shirkers donot want any responsibility and only want handful of salary Other operators sit on the footpath and selltheir SIM card with a xerox machine copy your ID proof with the xerox machine and give cards Can this be done by the BSNL Babus The activation will be done within hours but in BSNL they ask so many question to issue SIMAddress proof apart from Driving licence or PAN card This is how BSNL is sinking

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Debabrata Dutta Kolkata December 25 2013 316 am 316 AM

For last one month missed call alert of BSNL Kolkata is not working on my numberhelliphellip any body facing the same problem has the missed call alert number 17010 been changed I have diverted to 17010 under not reachablecondition but its still not working in Kolkata Kindly reply helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

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Kaushik Roy December 25 2013 942 am 942 AM

yes for me also BSNL MCA is not working and I diverted to 17010

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Kaushik Roy December 24 2013 937 pm 937 PM

Majority people will not use BSNL as primary numbers since its network goes down on a regular basis and one can not rely on it 100 specially single SIM usersOnly for roamers and travellers BSNL is useful for its great coverage I have seen many places in rural areas only BSNL signal is available and no other operator even AshyVOshyID are not there In places like Kolkata people can rely onother network than BSNL But for rural places BSNL is a good optionI used BSNL as my secondary number but I switched off the number majority times when I am in Kolkata I use it only for roaming with plan 199 which gives 180 days roaming incoming free except DelhiMumbai and Jammu ampKashmir and believe me in roaming I did not face much problem with BSNL

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BP Singh December 24 2013 928 pm 928 PM

Links of websites for lodging your Compliant amp Grievances against BSNL and there by improving its work culture

httpmisbsnlcoinpgsinternetpgwebregnaspBefore lodging any complaint to Higher authority make sure that you have approached middle amp lower Mgmt Keep proofs of it

Government Department Related Complaintshttpwwwpgportalgovin

RTI Onlinehttpwwwrtionlinegovin

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sanjay April 10 2014 223 pm 223 PM

BP singhrsquo ji why BSNL is not giving Adrsquos like using mobile more is harmful to brainears as medically prooved while Landline is harmless please create a awareness of use of Landline

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vivek December 24 2013 609 pm 609 PM

The retailer of bsnl dorsquot know what is MNP and what is current tariff in bsnl Then how satishfy a customer that there tariff is best The main reason of bsnl to go in decreasing revenue is that the customer not attracted toward bsnlbecause they dorsquot know what is current scheme of BSNL If you go private shop and ask them for sim then they would not suggest for bsnl If you ask for bsnl then they told that call rate is costly you can not get recharge at each shopsound quality is not good and without asking they suggest you about scheme of private service provider What is reason that they not appreciate bsnl because bsnl not give sufficient share as private give Second thing is BSNL customercare If your balance deduced in wrong way and if you complain for it then they told you that I dorsquot have right to refund your money but they will never tell that I am trying to refund your money by telling appropriate authority Insteadthey give email id and told you that you can contact to appropriate authority by sending email If you told them please sir send me email address then they told sir I donrsquot have right send to sms if you contact that email id you willalways got permanently failure of email

So you can think how good customer care service of BSNL

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Arun K G December 24 2013 852 pm 852 PM

BSNL is giving 55 of MRP on every rechargeTOP up to retailers which is higher among all private operators

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mr rai December 24 2013 541 pm 541 PM

bsnl is run by corrupt babus and ministers hence it will always make huge loss and suck common man blood money

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Arun K G December 24 2013 854 pm 854 PM

Can you tell any goverment public enterprise which donrsquot have any ind of curreption

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AA December 24 2013 523 pm 523 PM

BSNL is the legacy of the govt they will neither abondone nor let it function it is a source of corruption I am sure BSNL will continue to survive for the selfish motivies of the babus

Unless QoS and accountability improves nothing else is possible the effective way to use bsnl is to use it as backup (secoundary) number Bsnl is not in the business race hence forget about drastic improvement The least you expectthe happier you are

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rahul December 24 2013 457 pm 457 PM

bsnl plan validity scheme should change out it gives only 6 month validity to compete than others private companies gives near bout 3 years validity and after time goes on validity automatically increased but in bsnl validity game islike a supari killer who contract for a money and have a crime just like bsnl also make compulsion of validity recharge to keep active also sound quality of a call is bull shit and several drawbacks must removed

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Umesh Singh December 24 2013 250 pm 250 PM

1) BSNL should be allowed to give political parties funding so that it can get tailored made policies like other private operator

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narapareddyp December 24 2013 237 pm 237 PM

In my district(anantapurap) BSNL have 3G network only in few areaswe want more 3G NETWORK

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D Rajendra December 24 2013 135 pm 135 PM

13 yrs have been passed after merger from DOT to BSNL(PSU) but no corporate work culture is devloped among the employeesThis may be one of the reasonsSo first step to make BSNL profitable to motive and wtrngthen themarketing culture

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RKrishna Rao December 24 2013 105 pm 105 PM

The employees and their unionsassociations of BSNL had continuously raised issues concerning the development and expansion of the services Much more to be done to improve the services The mindshyset of the employees needs to befurther improved to face the present challenges and for ensuring a better service to the customers They should always remember that they are important stakeshyholders of the company and at the service of the nation and its people Theyshould educate the employees to seek the support of people for strengthening BSNL

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Abhijit December 24 2013 1256 pm 1256 PM

BSNL can come in profit by charging heavily to its customers who are already paying more than the service quality

hellip just joking as that will end BSNL

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Ganesh December 24 2013 1245 pm 1245 PM

Hey very good pointsI agree with anti corruption measures I bought a new BSNL landline and the line men came 1 week late and they didnrsquot even give the line properly (no dial tone) and when I said thanks they were like give us some money (instead ofthanks) I gave them 20 rupees and they were like who wants those I just told them that I didnrsquot have any Then they went away leaving that 20 But even after 1 week there was no dial tone I then had to complaint to the officials aboutthe line and then they fixed it after 7 days

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Sunil December 24 2013 1228 pm 1228 PM

Infrastructure and network of BSNL are good in comparison to other operators But only the thing to advertise the product tariffand services through employee working in BSNL Employees are only waiting for perks salary hike andother benifits they do not know the latest product and tariff of BSNL Employee working at customer service centre use to watch the time for lunch and closing the officeSome employeesofficers who are not working and even notsigning in files are enjoying service but few dedicated employeesofficer who are working hard are facing inquiries served with charge sheets due to complaints made by fellow lazy employees and contractorsupplier who wish to earnfake money without working Strict discipline is must

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Dr GL Kamei December 24 2013 1210 pm 1210 PM

Chethan S I do appreciate your suggestion c per c My Dad too serving in BSNL in Gr A executive post who I rely everything but he mention about BSNL downfall for which I am worried I am working in a med Institute after my Postshygraduationand my brother would be a med graduate very soon My Brother refuse to use BSNL Product for its poor performances I would upload comments later on

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seema December 24 2013 1207 pm 1207 PM

Lack of strong customer support is ofcourse a reason for the poor performance of BSNL but as indians we should understand BSNLs social commitment it is not profit oriented alone unlike other private operatorsSo do support BSNL LONG LIVE BSNL

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kalyankar December 29 2013 942 pm 942 PM

THANKS SEMMA GOOD COMMENTShellip

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sanjay April 10 2014 214 pm 214 PM

u r right seema

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KK Chaudhary December 24 2013 1033 am 1033 AM

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Condition of BSNL is like Nai in Thakurrsquos Barat

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Vishal Jaiswal December 24 2013 906 am 906 AM

I agree with ur views MrKumar but to cut the losses some decisons in a balanced manner has to taken like VRS for 50+ or 55+ employes to reduce no of employees Use of private agencies to market their product etc etc For a PSUprofit generation is never a motive but generating such a huge loss is also not acceptable

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krishan kumar December 24 2013 234 pm 234 PM

Vishal Jaiswal Can anyone think why BSNL in loss not because it can not make profit

VRS can reduce 50 salary expenditure of BSNL which is about 7700 Cr But giving VRS is like rdquo throw your parents out of your home because they are aged and not capable to contribute as much as they had contributed intheir time for the homerdquo

If BSNL Headed by ambani or others they can throw them even profit was reduced

BSNL is going to install GSM BTS naxalite area for our Defence forces not for profit BSNL know that to run GSM BTS in naxalite area is very difficult and incurred huge expenditure

BSNL going to ring connectivity to East area where revenue is in few crores not for profit but for the people of the country

It all depends on us rdquo If we want BSNL to live who act for the country peoplerdquoIndian Politician doing their best effort to sell BSNL to fill their pockets

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kmalakondaiah December 24 2013 838 am 838 AM

sir i appreciate your analasis and suggestions for improvementi am adding following points ror reaching profits1) attituderespectfriendly atmospherepatience listiningcaringimportancehelping naturepositive approachgood bodylanguage towards custmers is very very very essentials and invitableBSNL is now improving stage when comparedto PampT and DOT but not reached 100 to reach 100 behaviour traing and counselling is required to BSNL employees2) next quality of service shy borodband modemstelephone instrumentsdropwire etc topquality is to be choosen instead of poor qualitythe PampT and DOT slogan lowest price is to be forgotten and high quality is to be kept in mind whileprocuring stores3)maintinance of BTS(cell towers)shy is to be improved by provisionmaintainnig generatorsbattery sets 4)attending brodband complints on top priority5)the average age of bsnl employee is 50 yrsso the existing young jtorsquos and ttas clerksare to be posted in custmer service centers and cell towers maintinaceOr by hiring youngsters between 18shy25 years the 5 lakh employees come down to 25 lakhs now it will comedown to 2 lakhs by 2015BSNL existance is very much essential for the safety our country and to arrest private operators earning money from custemersfor example when the introduction of mobiles by private operators you know they charged for incoming andoutgoing calls at very very high rateswhen BSNL allowed to start mobiles they tariff come down and all the custmers were benifitedfinally one common problem facing by all the custemers from all the telecom operatots is shy some amount is deducting without knowledgeconsent of custemers by means of content providers servicesvalue added servicesall custemersare suffering and bitterly complining on this cheating processThis is highly objectionable and against to indian constitutionso i request all the custemers and eminent people to take all stps to arrest this cheatingi specially requestsupreme court lawers to takeup this issue and stop this cheating

kmalakondaiahBSNL employeevisakhapatnam andhrapradesh

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DrSrinagesh Poduri June 3 2014 1050 am 1050 AM

Dear Malakondaiah garu I am now at Australia If you remember I met you last month I am from Bhimili I purchased a postpaid connection with International Roaming after reaching here when I tried to activate it says thatthe SIM card registration failed Could you please check if the card has been activated for international roaming Thank you

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krishan kumar December 24 2013 1247 am 1247 AM

I want to share some point about BSNL

1 BSNL is feeding 254 Lakh family in india where as other private operator having 5 to 10 of this 70 employees are more than 50+ can they exist in other telecom company2 BSNL still running Landline services in rural areas and facing a loss of 10000 Cr per year where no other operate even think to go in dream3 BSNL still running more than 1000 exchanges where monthly revenue is about 5000 to 6000 but bill of electricity and security in about one lakh per month4 BSNL is giving broadband services in thousands of rural exchange where other operator not even ready to edge network5 In my district BSNL have 3G network in all taluka where only few operator have 3G network in district only I am living in city where Asia largest refinery exist6 Can you imagine the tariff rates AirtelVodafone and Idea If BSNL not in market7 BSNL have its connectivity in lehladakh amarnath siachen etc only for the person who protect our country can touch with their family in such tough condition

there are so many points otherhelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip which makes BSNL for country

If BSNL wants to be become in profit it can be done in 6 monthshelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

1 Reduce employees strength upto 30000 and make unemployment for about 220 lakh employees Airtel having revenue 40000 cr having only 25000 employees3 Close all rural exchanges and cut them from indian economy and save about 10000 Cr per year This is enough to make BSNL in profit4 Close all 3G BTS in rural where it can unable to generate revenue equal to its electricity bill to running the BTS5 Close all BTS in remote area and make Indian defence force to suffer

there are hundreds of point other which BSNL can do to become in profit

I agree BSNL has lots of drawback but imagine the condition of India without BSNL

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Tharun George December 24 2013 815 am 815 AM

BSNL can do the following practical things to get profitable1 Close the landline service and replace all landline with WLL phones For broadband replace with 3GI am telling this because in my area BSNL is not giving both landline or broadband saying line not available2 BSNL is getting paid by UOF fund from Gov to put BTS in remote areas and nexal areas3 In Kerala Idea has more tower in rural area than BSNL Almost all towers of Idea are now 3G But BSNL has only started expanding 3G in 3 years

BSNL is not the only organization with large employees Look at railway largest Gov employer in India Still its running without much loss

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AK December 24 2013 1125 am 1125 AM

Railway has incurred Rs60000 cr loss

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Tharun George December 24 2013 235 pm 235 PM

Indian Railways(From wikipedia)Revenue Increase to INR 12568 billion (US$19 billion) (2012ndash13)Net income Increase to INR 1041 billion (US$16 billion) (2012ndash13)

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Pravat Kumar Das December 24 2013 1256 pm 1256 PM

Very good point about BSNL thanks

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rangarajan December 24 2013 308 pm 308 PM

sirBSNL has a huge work force to be reduced by VRS (VOL REmoval scheme) already i informed authority to work with 30000 to get profit but CMD is calm cos he is retiring in June 2014rangarajan

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A RAO December 24 2013 423 pm 423 PM

All private operators do business BSNL gives Services to public BSNL wants profit it can come with in a year profit by doing business like private opertorsBSNL moto is to give best possible services to public in every corner ofIndia and it is ready to give restore immediately the communication when disastrous rains floods etc occures then the private operators for example a Appreciation letter from Govt of India received for restoration communicationservices at Uttarkand in june 2013 when a big disastrous happened

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sanjay April 10 2014 216 pm 216 PM

good comments sir

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kalyankar December 29 2013 945 pm 945 PM

SIR GOOD COMMENTShelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

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sand December 23 2013 1112 pm 1112 PM

chetan

My idea is that bsnl should have tailor made plans and also special offers for customers who make good amount of rechargesA gift would always make a consumer feel important and he would stick around

Postpaid is the greatest revenue generatorBring down the security deposits at par or lower than private firmsCouple it with the fair and transparent billing of bsnl and they will be instant hit

Have a greatly responsible cust care that responds

Cut down broadband prices now instead of doing it wen maybe 4g brings down tariffs and people have already migratedcustomer loyalty always has its own magic

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sand December 23 2013 1107 pm 1107 PM

Chetan

In my mail apart from the complaints i had mentioned these same things to the CMD as some ideasI dont know if he took any notice of that but since his office acted on the complaint i guess he took notice

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sand December 23 2013 1104 pm 1104 PM

chetan

I have been complaining for the last 2 yrs to fix the bsnlsupportFinally last month i decided to escalate matters furtherI sent my complaint to the CMD of BSNL with the kerala circle head in ccThis was my final attemptIt workedI got a mail back from CMD SECTTAlso complaints of mine were being called up and followed up by the circle head or someone in keralaIf you dont trust me i could put the screen shot of the reply i got hereI think all bsnlcustomers should try thisI even offered the CMD the recorded call with customer care which gave me a 53 min hold timeI think since we choose to vent our anger here and there an dnot take it up in the official way we get no replies or fixesIf every consumer facing the issue instead complains and follows it up and makes sure it gets heard then yes we candefinitly make changes

I ask every bsnl customer to do the same and then we will see the changesDont give up by porting or adjustGet ur voice heard

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k thirmal reddy December 23 2013 1036 pm 1036 PM

Here I should mention thatIf there is any PSU in India without itrsquos own responsible and accountable top managementthat is the one and only BSNLIt is a peculiar situation in BSNLEven after 13 years of its formation it still workslike a Govtdept Definitely there are a handful of top managers of impeccable integrity and concern for itwho can make things happen The best trained executives and prime assets and latest infra are the core strengths They should notbe underestimated The non performing assets to be made performing through innovative methods There are constraintsProfit making is not the ultimate visionbut Hope BSNL shall survive and come up with flags to enhance value inthe hands of customers and save the people of India from the clutches of private coSif Govt has the will to serve the people through BSNL

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b m b December 23 2013 1025 pm 1025 PM

UPA Govt should release all Dues pending from DOT some schemes to be announces like Ex MOS Paswanji schemes of Rs500connectionOfficialsofficers of GOVT should use BSNLHON MOC can look in bottle neck GSMnetworks needs of BSNL

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Vikas agarwal December 23 2013 956 pm 956 PM

I do not think now BSNL can compete with Private operatorsOne SDE of BSNL namely Sailash yadav of Faridabad earning black money and nobody is taking any action against himhe is working in tax section

So if condition like these continues and strict action if not taken then people will fed up from BSNl

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Darshan Malu December 23 2013 944 pm 944 PM

It should be published in newspapers media everywherehellipso that RK upadhya will know abt ithellipor your efforts going 2 b utter wastehellipplz possible mail this post to media mails like to TOI or NDTV or ET or anywhete possiblei amsure they will appreciate u r efforts and will publish themhellip

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Ducts December 23 2013 940 pm 940 PM

Nothing is going to improveIndia is a country where the top officials r oldhellipu can c our pmhellipeven with bsnl same thinghellipthat rk upadhay i think can even not operate his email id i think bcuz after sending so many email that man doesnt even have sense ofreplyinghellipuck u r company n sry not company actually u n ur corrupt teamhellipSaala samajhta nahi its nly our indiarsquos losshellipif u c ATampThellipDue 2 its QoS people dont even think to go for TshymobilehellipIndian government koh bhi samajtha nahi to appoint youngsters in such job by seeing what he actually knows n with gud marketting skillshellipWTF even after having pan india 3G lincense one would had taken advantage of it n make company to move forwardhellipRk upadhay u just take retirement u r mind age has no more ideas its time u r mind needs SANYAS

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Rishabh December 23 2013 1041 pm 1041 PM

+100000000

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Akhil Mohan December 23 2013 913 pm 913 PM

My experienceFor the last two weeks there is no internet in my 3G connection It connects but no data transfer takes place Registered a complaint with the no 9400000198 an waited for their call for 1 week but no one called me and today i received amessage saying your complaint has been closedHow will a company like this ever make profit If govt tries to bail out BSNL i may even try to go to court to prevent that because public dont need to pay for their wrong doings and inefficency

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derik December 23 2013 843 pm 843 PM

BSNL IS THE BEST IN KERALA AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE THE MARKET LEADER VERY SOONhelliphellipI LOVE BSNLhelliphellip

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LShobha December 23 2013 812 pm 812 PM

I would like to comment on corruption Eradicating corruption should be TOP DOWN approach and not BOTTOM UP approach Corruption cannot be cleansed from lineman to CMD but the other way around BSNL is a governmentcompany and obviously it will be a reflection of how our government is being run ndash scam ridden ndash Coalgate 2G Maharashtra dam scandalCommonwealth games scandal Robert Vadra Scandal mining scandal etc etc As the sayinggoes ndash ldquoYathah Raja Thathah PrajardquoBSNL has its share of scams within ndash awarding of contracts by top management to Boston Consulting Group appointing brand ambassadors to Ms Preity Zinta Deepika Padukone without any tangible result Perhaps the biggest ofthem all is the BSNL CDMA services Crores of public money invested without any revenueAs for the employees it is better to offer VRS to all the DOT recruited employees and hand over the organisation to the BSNL recruited youngsters and make them more accountableFinally BSNL should continue to exist in the larger interests of the countryrsquos security The government can not allow the Mittals Ambanis Tatas and Birlas to pocket crores of rupees money to gift aeroplanes to their wives and celebrateglitzy and glamorous wedding anniversaries and build Antilias with helicopter landing pads

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joseph joy christopher December 23 2013 747 pm 747 PM

BSNL Lags in1)proper plans2)no permanent tariff some plan came within 2 weekrsquos it will be removed eg 12rs roaming pack3)bad customer service4) even using gprs packs is not allowed in tn circle on black out days even with pack it is chargable

Prorsquos1)core network in all arearsquos

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SAHIL December 23 2013 703 pm 703 PM

BSNL CAN NEVER AND WILL NEVER IMPROVE OR CHANGE BECAUSE ITS RUN BY CORRUPT CRONIES OF PRIVATE OPERATORS AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS WHOSE ONLY AGENDA IS TO DESTROY BSNLAND BENEFIT PRIVATE OPERSTORS BSNL IS ALREADY ANOTHER AIR INDIA IN MAKING ULTIMATELY BSNL LOSSES WILL BE FUNDED FROM INDIAN CONSUMERS AND TAX PAYERS HARD EARNEDMONEY BUT AFTER 2014 ELECTIONS MODI WILL CLEAN UP THESE CORRUPT PEOPLE AND BSNL WILL IMPROVE

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Panditji December 23 2013 621 pm 621 PM

It is completely true that BSNL does not care its customers I surrendered a BSNL land line connection in Muzaffarpur Bihar only because of its employees After many request to its concern officials (even to higher official BSNLMuzaffarpur) no proper step was taken for a long period but every bishymonth i was served with a suitable bill and finally i unwillingly surrendered the connection This is what BSNL officials care its customers If this situation remainscontinued BSNL will never go in profit

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Satheesh December 23 2013 606 pm 606 PM

Myself is a BSNL employee I think the real problem lies with the TOP management Top level management is still DOT staff and deputation to BSNL Most of them are least bothered about the future of the Company and they are onlyburocrats and no professionalism which is the need of the hour They are not at all accountable for their activities and not ready to accept the feedback given by other stake holders such as employees franchisees etc Only proffessionalmanagement can rescue the organisation

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js December 23 2013 833 pm 833 PM

The pathetic state of the BSNL is purely because of the very bad attitude of the employees Employees are only interested in salary hike for every pay commission and spend least time in office If you want to see the attitude of theemployees you should go to an exchange or customer care center As a BSNL employee did you recommend any of your family or relatives to use BSNL product Do you know all details of BSNL products provided in your circleFirst BSNL employee should confidently market the product with their friends and relatives and they are the prime source of brand building They will blame BSNL then how they will be able to build the brand 2lakhs employeesif they try their best then BSNL can be profitable within 6months Customers need BSNL service but if BSNL can reach customers then people will always opt for it BSNL has the best tariff plans best coverage and no hiddencharges So only attitude of the employees should change not higher officials It is just an excuse to runaway from responsibilities by blaming higher officials This is what always BSNL employees union do

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Akhil Mohan December 23 2013 915 pm 915 PM

No body wants BSNL to improve Please shutdownhellip

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js December 24 2013 954 am 954 AM

AkhilBefore commenting on this you should know India first 90 percentage of mobile users do not want 3G or 4G or any data use They use mobile only to contact near and dear ones BSNL is the only service provider whoprovided service in rural areas small panchayats naxal affected areas and even Jammu and Kashmir where our soldiers are totally depending on BSNL network to contact their near and dear ones Pvt providers only look atprofit and even betray nation for the sake of money All defence orgs can only depend on BSNL and not any other service provider In UK customers did an agitation against vodafone on not paying the tax But in Indiacustomers will get more attracted by just the brand name and since it is a foreign operator and even though they do all tax frauds

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SS December 24 2013 1131 am 1131 AM

I still believe that vodafone tax case is completely non sense When vodafone acquired hutch there was no such law to tax transactions between companies incorporated outside india (the same supreme court ruled)Now they changed law to extract money by hook or by crook Is this a way

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krishna December 23 2013 516 pm 516 PM

Sometimes the strength becomes weakness The same is happening in BSNL ie Excess staff (Comparing with Private operators) is one of the reason for loss The management should take some bold decisions like giving VRSminimising retirement age from 60 to 58 (as major CPSU had the retirement age as 58)

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Chandra Sekhar Mandal December 23 2013 430 pm 430 PM

Previously i was using BSNL because it was giving 8 GB 2G [although i was getting 3G speed every time i recharged on my sim] data for just Rs219 for 30 days But after they unified 2G and 3G packs i did no recharge on that BSNL

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sim and its validity is also over I was a BSNL customer just because data purposeBSNL GO TO HELLhellip

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id December 23 2013 826 pm 826 PM

still its cheaper than others tariff

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deril December 23 2013 851 pm 851 PM

poor

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BatMAn December 23 2013 430 pm 430 PM

The funniest thing i have noticed isWhen ever Electricity in my area is down the same timethe BSNL network signal will be zero after a few minutes signal will be restored(Even if Electricity is Restored or not)i think they are have to start the DG Manuallyor No proper UPShellipif we are in a call the call will be doped Bsnl Karnataka Circle

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Rama December 23 2013 332 pm 332 PM

SaurabhHow did you know that BSNL has given out contract to expand netwrok in north indiaif you have any other source than tt and economic times would you please share it

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SS December 23 2013 322 pm 322 PM

This isnrsquot a new news This was expected and it happened Thanks to the worst management of bsnl In my circle up east there are fairly large no Of customers but ironically only 42 are active as per trairsquos report On the other handvodafone has 9970 active users and its 2g services are superior among all here My father uses bsnl only for 151shy400 mins tariff and would surely dump it if they ditch that scheme

Data services are worst than hell in bsnl For 20 days of month 2g data remains down and 3g goes down many times a day

Interconnectivity problems in bsnl are not uncommon Last time they blocked calls to vodafone for 2 months and only bsnl customers suffered I use airtel in delhi and its awesome in quality of service No single issue to complain aboutIn up east i use idea because of its robust 3g network all over the state Bsnl must to learn from them

But bsnl in far more superior than tata docomo reliance gsm aircel Lets hope that they improve

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Adil December 23 2013 950 pm 950 PM

ss i always use to agree to you but this time in climax i deny to your comment bsnl is worst than all operator whether it is docomo aircel reliance in fact uninor is far better than bsnlhellipthat is why uninor is making positive cashflow where as bsnl dying

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Aam Admi December 23 2013 221 pm 221 PM

ldquo8 Shut down loss making telephone exchanges or the ones which bring less revenue ndash many people opt for landline just due to broadband benefits through such exchanges (mainly rural) 3G data cards at special prices could beencouraged at such placesrdquo

As you already know 3G data cards are not a substitute to wired broadband I pay around 1000 INR for a broadband connection while living in a rural area Irsquom ready to pay more if BSNL can offer a 1 Mbps unlimited without FUPplan I keep my line only for broadband(a lot of people)

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Chethan S December 23 2013 713 pm 713 PM

Though I enjoy good quality Beam Fiber connection here in Hyderabad my familyrsquos situation is like yours back in my home town Our home falls in a BSNL Rural exchangersquos limits There particularly in the rainy season due tothunderstorms BSNL officials power off the telephone exchange during nights and even during weekends as an anticipatory measure depriving us of broadband connectivity Having a night unlimited connection we find itextremely the difficult to use internet within data usage limits As you said 3G data card is certainly not an alternative to wired broadband but if service is not good 3G at special rates would be welcome

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Tharun George December 23 2013 153 pm 153 PM

The only reason I am on BSNL is for cheap 3G and good 2G coverage All other things of BSNL are worst Call rates are not that low 2G internet is pathetic cannot even open google It takes 45min to get connected to customer careNetwork busy low quality sound

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prithvi December 23 2013 336 pm 336 PM

Exactly +1 BSNL

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Sugu December 23 2013 835 pm 835 PM

Tharun Well thatrsquos really surprising coz I have never faced such situation once when i had a problem ie Rs5 being deducted every week for no reason I went to their Thirunakkara Office and complained 2 days later Ireceived an SMS saying that my issue had been solved and even refunded me About the tariff in my knowledge it is providing cheapest base tariff among the operators i know I may be wrong and about 2G speed i always geta speed above 10kBshere is my speed test 2G httpwwwspeedtestnetmyshyresulta674883594

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Tharun George December 24 2013 827 am 827 AM

BSNL never deducted nay of my money As far as tariff go it is as high as private Most plans are 15ps and only mithram plan has 13ps STV are also costly

10KBs is very very low Your ping is very bad PING 903 ms Try opening gmail with it I have tested all operators 2G speed in Kerala Here are the resultDocomoshy 236kbpsAircelshy 225kbps (Shutdown)Relianceshy 225kbpsIdea ndash 170kbpsVodafone ndash 140kbpsAirtel ndash 100kbpsBSNL ndash 100kbps

For 3G BSNL has speed between 1shy2mbps But Idea 3G gives 6mbps at most time I use Reliance for 2G internet and calling Rs 74 STV gives 1p2sec for 6 months Lowest tariff in India

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Tharun George December 24 2013 830 am 830 AM

By the way you went to Kottayam office to get Rs 5 back Once I had gone there to pay Rs 4 bill for landline They laughed at me and asked how much Bus fare I spend to get there

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sugu December 24 2013 220 pm 220 PM

I said above 10kBs And it deducted Rs5 for 4 weeks I did not say anything about the refund but still they did and about 3G after 1030 I always get only about 50shy70kBs at home But at the morning it flies of to500shy700kBs when I went to my friendrsquos home at kumaranellor therersquos even H+ and I downloaded 270MB under 8 minuteshellipBus fare lol Vadavathoor to Old bus standhellip 6rshellip lolhellipBTW only 4rs landline what was your plan I hardly use tye landline the connection is only to avail broadband

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Tharun George December 24 2013 700 pm 700 PM

Vadavathoor We are so close yet meet online I am here just before Manarcad I most signal from Vadavathoor tower

I used to pay for 1 year for landline + broadband Some times exceed and they send Rs 2 or Rs 4 bills by postal Postage itself is Rs 4 for them

Disconnected BSNL broadband and landline this month I have Asianet broadband and Relaince 2G If you are using BSNL Broadband better switch to Asianet 4mbps broadband plans

I used to get 3G signal from BSNL tower at vadavathoor But 2 months ago BSNL added 3G to Rubber Board tower BTW I get signal for all private operators from Vadavathoor Does Docomo have tower atVadavathoor I am complaining for past 5 years to them about no coverage

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Sugu December 25 2013 527 pm 527 PM

Ah I think not Actually where does Docomo have towers My home is 2KM away from Thirunakkara Mostly I walk By the time I reach home BSNL will have switched through 3Towers (all 3G)while Docomo still remains connected to Thirunakkara I just get 1bar of range here and if I go to the hall no coverage Even when I went to my friends house 5km away its the same towerhellipIf you use android then download Network Signal Info it gives all details about that tower

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Riju VV December 23 2013 1029 pm 1029 PM

Bsnl kerala already introduced new customer care 9400000198No need to wait just call and enter your number They will call you back

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Tharun George December 24 2013 828 am 828 AM

You have to wait for there call back Which will take 30min ndash 1 hour

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Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 832 pm 832 PM

They never called me back for my complaint

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Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 830 pm 830 PM

Idea is now giving 1GB data for Rs 123 as a special offer

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Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 144 pm 144 PM

BSNL network is dead in Kaikhali near Kolkata Airport Area for last 10 daysIt seems that BSNL network is dead in so many places of Kolkata and they are not aware of BSNL fault and it forces people to use non BSNL SIMs

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Partha December 23 2013 842 pm 842 PM

Kaushik I live in Haldiram area near kaikhali and I did not face the problem you mentioned even for one day What was your exact location is it just beside Airport area

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Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 1054 pm 1054 PM

Partha There are few towers surrounding Kaikhali near your area haldiramHaldiram cell info display is KENDRIYA VIHAR (ABC) which is working fine and I get its signal from Outside my home but inside its stength is NIL Only I get cell info KAMALAPUR(ABC) ampDASODRONE(ABC) with 1 bar from balcony with fluctuation every 1 minuteBut the tower with KAIKHALI(ABC) cell info is not working from last 10 days which is the nearest tower from my house which is situated at Main road of VIP

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Kaushik Roy December 26 2013 1119 pm 1119 PM

Finally BSNL cell info (KAIKHALI ABC) tower started working from tonight after almost 12 days

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Saurabh December 23 2013 127 pm 127 PM

Since they gave tender for expansion in North zone I hope that their service will get better in Haryana and 3G will become available by October but none of the things happened Instead their 2G network which was worst before gettingmore and more worst here The indoor signal in my area in whatever house you check is nil to 1 bar only Those living near the BTS also face call drops You canrsquot call without voice cracking The network is just getting to bottom andno one to take care I have BSNL SIM which I recharge only once in a year with Rs34 validity extension to keep it alive as I keep SIM to check service quality

Whenever you call customer care the IVR says ldquoYour extimated hold time is 35 minutes 27 secrdquo and always over it Their CC is complete dumb and people at CSC are just illiterate who has only one answer for all the question ldquoBhaiyeh toh upar waley log decide karenge tabhi upgrade hoga Ab tumhara signal nahi aata toh hum kya karerdquo Their quality is sucking to the bottom at 60shy70 places Their VLR data shows that not even 10 lakh out of 30 lakh subscribersusing it Now you can understand why

Thanks to the private companies like Vodafone and Idea and Airtel also who have ubiquitous network and even after having 3shy4 times of BSNL subscribers their network works like charm and 99 uptime Thanks to Idea for providing3G to city towns villages and everywhere I went it was there Today I donrsquot have a single contact which is of BSNL and those I have are ported out to AVoId only

Videocon has started expansion and now have more active customers than BSNL in Haryana and soon they will have mre than that of Tata and Reliance Their is a limit to stupidity and BSNLhad crossed it since it started The conditionhere is even worst then what it was in 2004 It seems that BSNL is handling 500 customers per tower here which is chocking network all the day Few weeks back their network kept dead for 3 days So those who are on bsnl are losingeverything

I hope they donrsquot launch 3G in towns as their 2G signal is 1 bar on 1800 MHz What it will be on 2100 MHz 3G bandhellip They should save money and never launch 3G in towns in Haryana A slap to BSNL face from me

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John Thomas December 23 2013 116 pm 116 PM

What ever the writer suggested will never been going to implement I am been very long investigating BSNL policies and methodsi found that bsnl is administered by very corrupted ones Inefficient officers are getting on the top The

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main reason why people donrsquot choose bsnl is thateven though if there is a tower nearby to ones homeit is hard to find signal inside their home Government still holds bsnl nothing for but to maintain a security level in communicationof strategic important ones

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Ramesh Darji December 23 2013 1140 am 1140 AM

Dear Sanjay I want address issue of tata docomo not BSNL BSNL is govt company and some can understand but what happen to TataIn gujarat they have 3G but surprisingly they stop expanding 3G coverage Worst ever they switch off many sites in rural areas and highways In gujarat late entrant Uninor and videocon even doing better than tataIts worst ever they offers and schemes Their offer is changing so fast that customer lost trust on themStill they are riding on photon+ in maharastra and mumbai but their time is now over They are not realising adoption of 3G and still their data package is much higherOn the other hand realince and other 3G operator providing much cheaper 3G 156 now for realince 3G 299 for 2GB for MTNL and others are offering goodReliance Joi will launch service in short period and I think BSNL and other private operator who is not much serious about customer choice will be finished

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jz December 23 2013 1126 am 1126 AM

bsnl is cheap and best but didnrsquot know how to encash it

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Vamsi December 30 2013 1009 am 1009 AM

Hi frnd hellipthx for the article and my view was BSNL has a robust network to serve india better than any private company but The main and only obstacle was their employs hellipthe higher authority should initiate necessary steps todeploy corporate style to bsnlhellipbecz we all know that working hours of bsnl employs are not up to the mark so make them(Employes) work and serve better

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RED will become GREEN in the balance sheet5Supply of Instrumentscables jointing kitsdrop wires etc which are required for EXTERNAL PLANT MAINTENANCE AND DIRECTLY NEEDED FOR THE SUBSCRIBER are in poor supplyI am told they are keepingsometimes RECOVERED AND REPAIRED PHONE INSTRUMENTS TO NEW CUSTOMERS and this should be stopped to increase customer satisfaction6Govt while creating BSNL PSU in 2000 gave lot of promises that it will do all help and take care the needs of PSU but practically there is no such thing either in CASH OR KIND7Even for CAPEX and OPEX BSNL is struggling year after year and atleast the SPECTRUM CHARGES WHICH HAVE BEEN THE HIGHEST PAID BY BSNL shuold be refunded so that it will be on rails and run with full steam tocontinue public patronage which will not be allowed to be done by the private telcos who are waiting for the BSNL not to be a serious contestant against their interest

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Darshan December 25 2013 402 pm 402 PM

Ohh so its due to govthellip$shyiexcl| on the govt due to which bsnl going in red sheetshellip

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shekhar December 25 2013 908 am 908 AM

Make it private sell it Bharti Reilance anybody Free it from Red tapism ITS and Line man culture

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kalyankar December 29 2013 938 pm 938 PM

BOSS DONT WORRY WHEN BSNL IS SOLD TO PRIVATE FIRMS U WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE CALLS WITH PAISAShelliphelliphelliphellipBUT WITH BULK OF RUPEES REQUIRE TO MAKE AND RECIEVE CALLS

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sanjay April 10 2014 205 pm 205 PM

u r right sir

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sanjay April 10 2014 206 pm 206 PM

u r absolutely right kalyankarhellip

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Nazeer Ahmed December 25 2013 905 am 905 AM

The suggesstion given by MrS Chetan are good but Babus at top level of BSNL need changed in their mindset they are shirkers donot want any responsibility and only want handful of salary Other operators sit on the footpath and selltheir SIM card with a xerox machine copy your ID proof with the xerox machine and give cards Can this be done by the BSNL Babus The activation will be done within hours but in BSNL they ask so many question to issue SIMAddress proof apart from Driving licence or PAN card This is how BSNL is sinking

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Debabrata Dutta Kolkata December 25 2013 316 am 316 AM

For last one month missed call alert of BSNL Kolkata is not working on my numberhelliphellip any body facing the same problem has the missed call alert number 17010 been changed I have diverted to 17010 under not reachablecondition but its still not working in Kolkata Kindly reply helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

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Kaushik Roy December 25 2013 942 am 942 AM

yes for me also BSNL MCA is not working and I diverted to 17010

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Kaushik Roy December 24 2013 937 pm 937 PM

Majority people will not use BSNL as primary numbers since its network goes down on a regular basis and one can not rely on it 100 specially single SIM usersOnly for roamers and travellers BSNL is useful for its great coverage I have seen many places in rural areas only BSNL signal is available and no other operator even AshyVOshyID are not there In places like Kolkata people can rely onother network than BSNL But for rural places BSNL is a good optionI used BSNL as my secondary number but I switched off the number majority times when I am in Kolkata I use it only for roaming with plan 199 which gives 180 days roaming incoming free except DelhiMumbai and Jammu ampKashmir and believe me in roaming I did not face much problem with BSNL

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BP Singh December 24 2013 928 pm 928 PM

Links of websites for lodging your Compliant amp Grievances against BSNL and there by improving its work culture

httpmisbsnlcoinpgsinternetpgwebregnaspBefore lodging any complaint to Higher authority make sure that you have approached middle amp lower Mgmt Keep proofs of it

Government Department Related Complaintshttpwwwpgportalgovin

RTI Onlinehttpwwwrtionlinegovin

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sanjay April 10 2014 223 pm 223 PM

BP singhrsquo ji why BSNL is not giving Adrsquos like using mobile more is harmful to brainears as medically prooved while Landline is harmless please create a awareness of use of Landline

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vivek December 24 2013 609 pm 609 PM

The retailer of bsnl dorsquot know what is MNP and what is current tariff in bsnl Then how satishfy a customer that there tariff is best The main reason of bsnl to go in decreasing revenue is that the customer not attracted toward bsnlbecause they dorsquot know what is current scheme of BSNL If you go private shop and ask them for sim then they would not suggest for bsnl If you ask for bsnl then they told that call rate is costly you can not get recharge at each shopsound quality is not good and without asking they suggest you about scheme of private service provider What is reason that they not appreciate bsnl because bsnl not give sufficient share as private give Second thing is BSNL customercare If your balance deduced in wrong way and if you complain for it then they told you that I dorsquot have right to refund your money but they will never tell that I am trying to refund your money by telling appropriate authority Insteadthey give email id and told you that you can contact to appropriate authority by sending email If you told them please sir send me email address then they told sir I donrsquot have right send to sms if you contact that email id you willalways got permanently failure of email

So you can think how good customer care service of BSNL

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Arun K G December 24 2013 852 pm 852 PM

BSNL is giving 55 of MRP on every rechargeTOP up to retailers which is higher among all private operators

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mr rai December 24 2013 541 pm 541 PM

bsnl is run by corrupt babus and ministers hence it will always make huge loss and suck common man blood money

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Arun K G December 24 2013 854 pm 854 PM

Can you tell any goverment public enterprise which donrsquot have any ind of curreption

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AA December 24 2013 523 pm 523 PM

BSNL is the legacy of the govt they will neither abondone nor let it function it is a source of corruption I am sure BSNL will continue to survive for the selfish motivies of the babus

Unless QoS and accountability improves nothing else is possible the effective way to use bsnl is to use it as backup (secoundary) number Bsnl is not in the business race hence forget about drastic improvement The least you expectthe happier you are

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rahul December 24 2013 457 pm 457 PM

bsnl plan validity scheme should change out it gives only 6 month validity to compete than others private companies gives near bout 3 years validity and after time goes on validity automatically increased but in bsnl validity game islike a supari killer who contract for a money and have a crime just like bsnl also make compulsion of validity recharge to keep active also sound quality of a call is bull shit and several drawbacks must removed

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Umesh Singh December 24 2013 250 pm 250 PM

1) BSNL should be allowed to give political parties funding so that it can get tailored made policies like other private operator

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narapareddyp December 24 2013 237 pm 237 PM

In my district(anantapurap) BSNL have 3G network only in few areaswe want more 3G NETWORK

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D Rajendra December 24 2013 135 pm 135 PM

13 yrs have been passed after merger from DOT to BSNL(PSU) but no corporate work culture is devloped among the employeesThis may be one of the reasonsSo first step to make BSNL profitable to motive and wtrngthen themarketing culture

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RKrishna Rao December 24 2013 105 pm 105 PM

The employees and their unionsassociations of BSNL had continuously raised issues concerning the development and expansion of the services Much more to be done to improve the services The mindshyset of the employees needs to befurther improved to face the present challenges and for ensuring a better service to the customers They should always remember that they are important stakeshyholders of the company and at the service of the nation and its people Theyshould educate the employees to seek the support of people for strengthening BSNL

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Abhijit December 24 2013 1256 pm 1256 PM

BSNL can come in profit by charging heavily to its customers who are already paying more than the service quality

hellip just joking as that will end BSNL

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Ganesh December 24 2013 1245 pm 1245 PM

Hey very good pointsI agree with anti corruption measures I bought a new BSNL landline and the line men came 1 week late and they didnrsquot even give the line properly (no dial tone) and when I said thanks they were like give us some money (instead ofthanks) I gave them 20 rupees and they were like who wants those I just told them that I didnrsquot have any Then they went away leaving that 20 But even after 1 week there was no dial tone I then had to complaint to the officials aboutthe line and then they fixed it after 7 days

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Sunil December 24 2013 1228 pm 1228 PM

Infrastructure and network of BSNL are good in comparison to other operators But only the thing to advertise the product tariffand services through employee working in BSNL Employees are only waiting for perks salary hike andother benifits they do not know the latest product and tariff of BSNL Employee working at customer service centre use to watch the time for lunch and closing the officeSome employeesofficers who are not working and even notsigning in files are enjoying service but few dedicated employeesofficer who are working hard are facing inquiries served with charge sheets due to complaints made by fellow lazy employees and contractorsupplier who wish to earnfake money without working Strict discipline is must

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Dr GL Kamei December 24 2013 1210 pm 1210 PM

Chethan S I do appreciate your suggestion c per c My Dad too serving in BSNL in Gr A executive post who I rely everything but he mention about BSNL downfall for which I am worried I am working in a med Institute after my Postshygraduationand my brother would be a med graduate very soon My Brother refuse to use BSNL Product for its poor performances I would upload comments later on

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seema December 24 2013 1207 pm 1207 PM

Lack of strong customer support is ofcourse a reason for the poor performance of BSNL but as indians we should understand BSNLs social commitment it is not profit oriented alone unlike other private operatorsSo do support BSNL LONG LIVE BSNL

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kalyankar December 29 2013 942 pm 942 PM

THANKS SEMMA GOOD COMMENTShellip

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sanjay April 10 2014 214 pm 214 PM

u r right seema

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KK Chaudhary December 24 2013 1033 am 1033 AM

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Condition of BSNL is like Nai in Thakurrsquos Barat

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Vishal Jaiswal December 24 2013 906 am 906 AM

I agree with ur views MrKumar but to cut the losses some decisons in a balanced manner has to taken like VRS for 50+ or 55+ employes to reduce no of employees Use of private agencies to market their product etc etc For a PSUprofit generation is never a motive but generating such a huge loss is also not acceptable

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krishan kumar December 24 2013 234 pm 234 PM

Vishal Jaiswal Can anyone think why BSNL in loss not because it can not make profit

VRS can reduce 50 salary expenditure of BSNL which is about 7700 Cr But giving VRS is like rdquo throw your parents out of your home because they are aged and not capable to contribute as much as they had contributed intheir time for the homerdquo

If BSNL Headed by ambani or others they can throw them even profit was reduced

BSNL is going to install GSM BTS naxalite area for our Defence forces not for profit BSNL know that to run GSM BTS in naxalite area is very difficult and incurred huge expenditure

BSNL going to ring connectivity to East area where revenue is in few crores not for profit but for the people of the country

It all depends on us rdquo If we want BSNL to live who act for the country peoplerdquoIndian Politician doing their best effort to sell BSNL to fill their pockets

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kmalakondaiah December 24 2013 838 am 838 AM

sir i appreciate your analasis and suggestions for improvementi am adding following points ror reaching profits1) attituderespectfriendly atmospherepatience listiningcaringimportancehelping naturepositive approachgood bodylanguage towards custmers is very very very essentials and invitableBSNL is now improving stage when comparedto PampT and DOT but not reached 100 to reach 100 behaviour traing and counselling is required to BSNL employees2) next quality of service shy borodband modemstelephone instrumentsdropwire etc topquality is to be choosen instead of poor qualitythe PampT and DOT slogan lowest price is to be forgotten and high quality is to be kept in mind whileprocuring stores3)maintinance of BTS(cell towers)shy is to be improved by provisionmaintainnig generatorsbattery sets 4)attending brodband complints on top priority5)the average age of bsnl employee is 50 yrsso the existing young jtorsquos and ttas clerksare to be posted in custmer service centers and cell towers maintinaceOr by hiring youngsters between 18shy25 years the 5 lakh employees come down to 25 lakhs now it will comedown to 2 lakhs by 2015BSNL existance is very much essential for the safety our country and to arrest private operators earning money from custemersfor example when the introduction of mobiles by private operators you know they charged for incoming andoutgoing calls at very very high rateswhen BSNL allowed to start mobiles they tariff come down and all the custmers were benifitedfinally one common problem facing by all the custemers from all the telecom operatots is shy some amount is deducting without knowledgeconsent of custemers by means of content providers servicesvalue added servicesall custemersare suffering and bitterly complining on this cheating processThis is highly objectionable and against to indian constitutionso i request all the custemers and eminent people to take all stps to arrest this cheatingi specially requestsupreme court lawers to takeup this issue and stop this cheating

kmalakondaiahBSNL employeevisakhapatnam andhrapradesh

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DrSrinagesh Poduri June 3 2014 1050 am 1050 AM

Dear Malakondaiah garu I am now at Australia If you remember I met you last month I am from Bhimili I purchased a postpaid connection with International Roaming after reaching here when I tried to activate it says thatthe SIM card registration failed Could you please check if the card has been activated for international roaming Thank you

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krishan kumar December 24 2013 1247 am 1247 AM

I want to share some point about BSNL

1 BSNL is feeding 254 Lakh family in india where as other private operator having 5 to 10 of this 70 employees are more than 50+ can they exist in other telecom company2 BSNL still running Landline services in rural areas and facing a loss of 10000 Cr per year where no other operate even think to go in dream3 BSNL still running more than 1000 exchanges where monthly revenue is about 5000 to 6000 but bill of electricity and security in about one lakh per month4 BSNL is giving broadband services in thousands of rural exchange where other operator not even ready to edge network5 In my district BSNL have 3G network in all taluka where only few operator have 3G network in district only I am living in city where Asia largest refinery exist6 Can you imagine the tariff rates AirtelVodafone and Idea If BSNL not in market7 BSNL have its connectivity in lehladakh amarnath siachen etc only for the person who protect our country can touch with their family in such tough condition

there are so many points otherhelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip which makes BSNL for country

If BSNL wants to be become in profit it can be done in 6 monthshelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

1 Reduce employees strength upto 30000 and make unemployment for about 220 lakh employees Airtel having revenue 40000 cr having only 25000 employees3 Close all rural exchanges and cut them from indian economy and save about 10000 Cr per year This is enough to make BSNL in profit4 Close all 3G BTS in rural where it can unable to generate revenue equal to its electricity bill to running the BTS5 Close all BTS in remote area and make Indian defence force to suffer

there are hundreds of point other which BSNL can do to become in profit

I agree BSNL has lots of drawback but imagine the condition of India without BSNL

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Tharun George December 24 2013 815 am 815 AM

BSNL can do the following practical things to get profitable1 Close the landline service and replace all landline with WLL phones For broadband replace with 3GI am telling this because in my area BSNL is not giving both landline or broadband saying line not available2 BSNL is getting paid by UOF fund from Gov to put BTS in remote areas and nexal areas3 In Kerala Idea has more tower in rural area than BSNL Almost all towers of Idea are now 3G But BSNL has only started expanding 3G in 3 years

BSNL is not the only organization with large employees Look at railway largest Gov employer in India Still its running without much loss

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AK December 24 2013 1125 am 1125 AM

Railway has incurred Rs60000 cr loss

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Tharun George December 24 2013 235 pm 235 PM

Indian Railways(From wikipedia)Revenue Increase to INR 12568 billion (US$19 billion) (2012ndash13)Net income Increase to INR 1041 billion (US$16 billion) (2012ndash13)

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Pravat Kumar Das December 24 2013 1256 pm 1256 PM

Very good point about BSNL thanks

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rangarajan December 24 2013 308 pm 308 PM

sirBSNL has a huge work force to be reduced by VRS (VOL REmoval scheme) already i informed authority to work with 30000 to get profit but CMD is calm cos he is retiring in June 2014rangarajan

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A RAO December 24 2013 423 pm 423 PM

All private operators do business BSNL gives Services to public BSNL wants profit it can come with in a year profit by doing business like private opertorsBSNL moto is to give best possible services to public in every corner ofIndia and it is ready to give restore immediately the communication when disastrous rains floods etc occures then the private operators for example a Appreciation letter from Govt of India received for restoration communicationservices at Uttarkand in june 2013 when a big disastrous happened

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sanjay April 10 2014 216 pm 216 PM

good comments sir

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kalyankar December 29 2013 945 pm 945 PM

SIR GOOD COMMENTShelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

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sand December 23 2013 1112 pm 1112 PM

chetan

My idea is that bsnl should have tailor made plans and also special offers for customers who make good amount of rechargesA gift would always make a consumer feel important and he would stick around

Postpaid is the greatest revenue generatorBring down the security deposits at par or lower than private firmsCouple it with the fair and transparent billing of bsnl and they will be instant hit

Have a greatly responsible cust care that responds

Cut down broadband prices now instead of doing it wen maybe 4g brings down tariffs and people have already migratedcustomer loyalty always has its own magic

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sand December 23 2013 1107 pm 1107 PM

Chetan

In my mail apart from the complaints i had mentioned these same things to the CMD as some ideasI dont know if he took any notice of that but since his office acted on the complaint i guess he took notice

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sand December 23 2013 1104 pm 1104 PM

chetan

I have been complaining for the last 2 yrs to fix the bsnlsupportFinally last month i decided to escalate matters furtherI sent my complaint to the CMD of BSNL with the kerala circle head in ccThis was my final attemptIt workedI got a mail back from CMD SECTTAlso complaints of mine were being called up and followed up by the circle head or someone in keralaIf you dont trust me i could put the screen shot of the reply i got hereI think all bsnlcustomers should try thisI even offered the CMD the recorded call with customer care which gave me a 53 min hold timeI think since we choose to vent our anger here and there an dnot take it up in the official way we get no replies or fixesIf every consumer facing the issue instead complains and follows it up and makes sure it gets heard then yes we candefinitly make changes

I ask every bsnl customer to do the same and then we will see the changesDont give up by porting or adjustGet ur voice heard

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k thirmal reddy December 23 2013 1036 pm 1036 PM

Here I should mention thatIf there is any PSU in India without itrsquos own responsible and accountable top managementthat is the one and only BSNLIt is a peculiar situation in BSNLEven after 13 years of its formation it still workslike a Govtdept Definitely there are a handful of top managers of impeccable integrity and concern for itwho can make things happen The best trained executives and prime assets and latest infra are the core strengths They should notbe underestimated The non performing assets to be made performing through innovative methods There are constraintsProfit making is not the ultimate visionbut Hope BSNL shall survive and come up with flags to enhance value inthe hands of customers and save the people of India from the clutches of private coSif Govt has the will to serve the people through BSNL

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b m b December 23 2013 1025 pm 1025 PM

UPA Govt should release all Dues pending from DOT some schemes to be announces like Ex MOS Paswanji schemes of Rs500connectionOfficialsofficers of GOVT should use BSNLHON MOC can look in bottle neck GSMnetworks needs of BSNL

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Vikas agarwal December 23 2013 956 pm 956 PM

I do not think now BSNL can compete with Private operatorsOne SDE of BSNL namely Sailash yadav of Faridabad earning black money and nobody is taking any action against himhe is working in tax section

So if condition like these continues and strict action if not taken then people will fed up from BSNl

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Darshan Malu December 23 2013 944 pm 944 PM

It should be published in newspapers media everywherehellipso that RK upadhya will know abt ithellipor your efforts going 2 b utter wastehellipplz possible mail this post to media mails like to TOI or NDTV or ET or anywhete possiblei amsure they will appreciate u r efforts and will publish themhellip

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Ducts December 23 2013 940 pm 940 PM

Nothing is going to improveIndia is a country where the top officials r oldhellipu can c our pmhellipeven with bsnl same thinghellipthat rk upadhay i think can even not operate his email id i think bcuz after sending so many email that man doesnt even have sense ofreplyinghellipuck u r company n sry not company actually u n ur corrupt teamhellipSaala samajhta nahi its nly our indiarsquos losshellipif u c ATampThellipDue 2 its QoS people dont even think to go for TshymobilehellipIndian government koh bhi samajtha nahi to appoint youngsters in such job by seeing what he actually knows n with gud marketting skillshellipWTF even after having pan india 3G lincense one would had taken advantage of it n make company to move forwardhellipRk upadhay u just take retirement u r mind age has no more ideas its time u r mind needs SANYAS

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Rishabh December 23 2013 1041 pm 1041 PM

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Akhil Mohan December 23 2013 913 pm 913 PM

My experienceFor the last two weeks there is no internet in my 3G connection It connects but no data transfer takes place Registered a complaint with the no 9400000198 an waited for their call for 1 week but no one called me and today i received amessage saying your complaint has been closedHow will a company like this ever make profit If govt tries to bail out BSNL i may even try to go to court to prevent that because public dont need to pay for their wrong doings and inefficency

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derik December 23 2013 843 pm 843 PM

BSNL IS THE BEST IN KERALA AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE THE MARKET LEADER VERY SOONhelliphellipI LOVE BSNLhelliphellip

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LShobha December 23 2013 812 pm 812 PM

I would like to comment on corruption Eradicating corruption should be TOP DOWN approach and not BOTTOM UP approach Corruption cannot be cleansed from lineman to CMD but the other way around BSNL is a governmentcompany and obviously it will be a reflection of how our government is being run ndash scam ridden ndash Coalgate 2G Maharashtra dam scandalCommonwealth games scandal Robert Vadra Scandal mining scandal etc etc As the sayinggoes ndash ldquoYathah Raja Thathah PrajardquoBSNL has its share of scams within ndash awarding of contracts by top management to Boston Consulting Group appointing brand ambassadors to Ms Preity Zinta Deepika Padukone without any tangible result Perhaps the biggest ofthem all is the BSNL CDMA services Crores of public money invested without any revenueAs for the employees it is better to offer VRS to all the DOT recruited employees and hand over the organisation to the BSNL recruited youngsters and make them more accountableFinally BSNL should continue to exist in the larger interests of the countryrsquos security The government can not allow the Mittals Ambanis Tatas and Birlas to pocket crores of rupees money to gift aeroplanes to their wives and celebrateglitzy and glamorous wedding anniversaries and build Antilias with helicopter landing pads

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joseph joy christopher December 23 2013 747 pm 747 PM

BSNL Lags in1)proper plans2)no permanent tariff some plan came within 2 weekrsquos it will be removed eg 12rs roaming pack3)bad customer service4) even using gprs packs is not allowed in tn circle on black out days even with pack it is chargable

Prorsquos1)core network in all arearsquos

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SAHIL December 23 2013 703 pm 703 PM

BSNL CAN NEVER AND WILL NEVER IMPROVE OR CHANGE BECAUSE ITS RUN BY CORRUPT CRONIES OF PRIVATE OPERATORS AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS WHOSE ONLY AGENDA IS TO DESTROY BSNLAND BENEFIT PRIVATE OPERSTORS BSNL IS ALREADY ANOTHER AIR INDIA IN MAKING ULTIMATELY BSNL LOSSES WILL BE FUNDED FROM INDIAN CONSUMERS AND TAX PAYERS HARD EARNEDMONEY BUT AFTER 2014 ELECTIONS MODI WILL CLEAN UP THESE CORRUPT PEOPLE AND BSNL WILL IMPROVE

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Panditji December 23 2013 621 pm 621 PM

It is completely true that BSNL does not care its customers I surrendered a BSNL land line connection in Muzaffarpur Bihar only because of its employees After many request to its concern officials (even to higher official BSNLMuzaffarpur) no proper step was taken for a long period but every bishymonth i was served with a suitable bill and finally i unwillingly surrendered the connection This is what BSNL officials care its customers If this situation remainscontinued BSNL will never go in profit

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Satheesh December 23 2013 606 pm 606 PM

Myself is a BSNL employee I think the real problem lies with the TOP management Top level management is still DOT staff and deputation to BSNL Most of them are least bothered about the future of the Company and they are onlyburocrats and no professionalism which is the need of the hour They are not at all accountable for their activities and not ready to accept the feedback given by other stake holders such as employees franchisees etc Only proffessionalmanagement can rescue the organisation

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js December 23 2013 833 pm 833 PM

The pathetic state of the BSNL is purely because of the very bad attitude of the employees Employees are only interested in salary hike for every pay commission and spend least time in office If you want to see the attitude of theemployees you should go to an exchange or customer care center As a BSNL employee did you recommend any of your family or relatives to use BSNL product Do you know all details of BSNL products provided in your circleFirst BSNL employee should confidently market the product with their friends and relatives and they are the prime source of brand building They will blame BSNL then how they will be able to build the brand 2lakhs employeesif they try their best then BSNL can be profitable within 6months Customers need BSNL service but if BSNL can reach customers then people will always opt for it BSNL has the best tariff plans best coverage and no hiddencharges So only attitude of the employees should change not higher officials It is just an excuse to runaway from responsibilities by blaming higher officials This is what always BSNL employees union do

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Akhil Mohan December 23 2013 915 pm 915 PM

No body wants BSNL to improve Please shutdownhellip

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js December 24 2013 954 am 954 AM

AkhilBefore commenting on this you should know India first 90 percentage of mobile users do not want 3G or 4G or any data use They use mobile only to contact near and dear ones BSNL is the only service provider whoprovided service in rural areas small panchayats naxal affected areas and even Jammu and Kashmir where our soldiers are totally depending on BSNL network to contact their near and dear ones Pvt providers only look atprofit and even betray nation for the sake of money All defence orgs can only depend on BSNL and not any other service provider In UK customers did an agitation against vodafone on not paying the tax But in Indiacustomers will get more attracted by just the brand name and since it is a foreign operator and even though they do all tax frauds

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SS December 24 2013 1131 am 1131 AM

I still believe that vodafone tax case is completely non sense When vodafone acquired hutch there was no such law to tax transactions between companies incorporated outside india (the same supreme court ruled)Now they changed law to extract money by hook or by crook Is this a way

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krishna December 23 2013 516 pm 516 PM

Sometimes the strength becomes weakness The same is happening in BSNL ie Excess staff (Comparing with Private operators) is one of the reason for loss The management should take some bold decisions like giving VRSminimising retirement age from 60 to 58 (as major CPSU had the retirement age as 58)

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Chandra Sekhar Mandal December 23 2013 430 pm 430 PM

Previously i was using BSNL because it was giving 8 GB 2G [although i was getting 3G speed every time i recharged on my sim] data for just Rs219 for 30 days But after they unified 2G and 3G packs i did no recharge on that BSNL

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sim and its validity is also over I was a BSNL customer just because data purposeBSNL GO TO HELLhellip

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id December 23 2013 826 pm 826 PM

still its cheaper than others tariff

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deril December 23 2013 851 pm 851 PM

poor

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BatMAn December 23 2013 430 pm 430 PM

The funniest thing i have noticed isWhen ever Electricity in my area is down the same timethe BSNL network signal will be zero after a few minutes signal will be restored(Even if Electricity is Restored or not)i think they are have to start the DG Manuallyor No proper UPShellipif we are in a call the call will be doped Bsnl Karnataka Circle

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Rama December 23 2013 332 pm 332 PM

SaurabhHow did you know that BSNL has given out contract to expand netwrok in north indiaif you have any other source than tt and economic times would you please share it

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SS December 23 2013 322 pm 322 PM

This isnrsquot a new news This was expected and it happened Thanks to the worst management of bsnl In my circle up east there are fairly large no Of customers but ironically only 42 are active as per trairsquos report On the other handvodafone has 9970 active users and its 2g services are superior among all here My father uses bsnl only for 151shy400 mins tariff and would surely dump it if they ditch that scheme

Data services are worst than hell in bsnl For 20 days of month 2g data remains down and 3g goes down many times a day

Interconnectivity problems in bsnl are not uncommon Last time they blocked calls to vodafone for 2 months and only bsnl customers suffered I use airtel in delhi and its awesome in quality of service No single issue to complain aboutIn up east i use idea because of its robust 3g network all over the state Bsnl must to learn from them

But bsnl in far more superior than tata docomo reliance gsm aircel Lets hope that they improve

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Adil December 23 2013 950 pm 950 PM

ss i always use to agree to you but this time in climax i deny to your comment bsnl is worst than all operator whether it is docomo aircel reliance in fact uninor is far better than bsnlhellipthat is why uninor is making positive cashflow where as bsnl dying

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Aam Admi December 23 2013 221 pm 221 PM

ldquo8 Shut down loss making telephone exchanges or the ones which bring less revenue ndash many people opt for landline just due to broadband benefits through such exchanges (mainly rural) 3G data cards at special prices could beencouraged at such placesrdquo

As you already know 3G data cards are not a substitute to wired broadband I pay around 1000 INR for a broadband connection while living in a rural area Irsquom ready to pay more if BSNL can offer a 1 Mbps unlimited without FUPplan I keep my line only for broadband(a lot of people)

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Chethan S December 23 2013 713 pm 713 PM

Though I enjoy good quality Beam Fiber connection here in Hyderabad my familyrsquos situation is like yours back in my home town Our home falls in a BSNL Rural exchangersquos limits There particularly in the rainy season due tothunderstorms BSNL officials power off the telephone exchange during nights and even during weekends as an anticipatory measure depriving us of broadband connectivity Having a night unlimited connection we find itextremely the difficult to use internet within data usage limits As you said 3G data card is certainly not an alternative to wired broadband but if service is not good 3G at special rates would be welcome

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Tharun George December 23 2013 153 pm 153 PM

The only reason I am on BSNL is for cheap 3G and good 2G coverage All other things of BSNL are worst Call rates are not that low 2G internet is pathetic cannot even open google It takes 45min to get connected to customer careNetwork busy low quality sound

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prithvi December 23 2013 336 pm 336 PM

Exactly +1 BSNL

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Sugu December 23 2013 835 pm 835 PM

Tharun Well thatrsquos really surprising coz I have never faced such situation once when i had a problem ie Rs5 being deducted every week for no reason I went to their Thirunakkara Office and complained 2 days later Ireceived an SMS saying that my issue had been solved and even refunded me About the tariff in my knowledge it is providing cheapest base tariff among the operators i know I may be wrong and about 2G speed i always geta speed above 10kBshere is my speed test 2G httpwwwspeedtestnetmyshyresulta674883594

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Tharun George December 24 2013 827 am 827 AM

BSNL never deducted nay of my money As far as tariff go it is as high as private Most plans are 15ps and only mithram plan has 13ps STV are also costly

10KBs is very very low Your ping is very bad PING 903 ms Try opening gmail with it I have tested all operators 2G speed in Kerala Here are the resultDocomoshy 236kbpsAircelshy 225kbps (Shutdown)Relianceshy 225kbpsIdea ndash 170kbpsVodafone ndash 140kbpsAirtel ndash 100kbpsBSNL ndash 100kbps

For 3G BSNL has speed between 1shy2mbps But Idea 3G gives 6mbps at most time I use Reliance for 2G internet and calling Rs 74 STV gives 1p2sec for 6 months Lowest tariff in India

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Tharun George December 24 2013 830 am 830 AM

By the way you went to Kottayam office to get Rs 5 back Once I had gone there to pay Rs 4 bill for landline They laughed at me and asked how much Bus fare I spend to get there

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sugu December 24 2013 220 pm 220 PM

I said above 10kBs And it deducted Rs5 for 4 weeks I did not say anything about the refund but still they did and about 3G after 1030 I always get only about 50shy70kBs at home But at the morning it flies of to500shy700kBs when I went to my friendrsquos home at kumaranellor therersquos even H+ and I downloaded 270MB under 8 minuteshellipBus fare lol Vadavathoor to Old bus standhellip 6rshellip lolhellipBTW only 4rs landline what was your plan I hardly use tye landline the connection is only to avail broadband

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Tharun George December 24 2013 700 pm 700 PM

Vadavathoor We are so close yet meet online I am here just before Manarcad I most signal from Vadavathoor tower

I used to pay for 1 year for landline + broadband Some times exceed and they send Rs 2 or Rs 4 bills by postal Postage itself is Rs 4 for them

Disconnected BSNL broadband and landline this month I have Asianet broadband and Relaince 2G If you are using BSNL Broadband better switch to Asianet 4mbps broadband plans

I used to get 3G signal from BSNL tower at vadavathoor But 2 months ago BSNL added 3G to Rubber Board tower BTW I get signal for all private operators from Vadavathoor Does Docomo have tower atVadavathoor I am complaining for past 5 years to them about no coverage

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Sugu December 25 2013 527 pm 527 PM

Ah I think not Actually where does Docomo have towers My home is 2KM away from Thirunakkara Mostly I walk By the time I reach home BSNL will have switched through 3Towers (all 3G)while Docomo still remains connected to Thirunakkara I just get 1bar of range here and if I go to the hall no coverage Even when I went to my friends house 5km away its the same towerhellipIf you use android then download Network Signal Info it gives all details about that tower

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Riju VV December 23 2013 1029 pm 1029 PM

Bsnl kerala already introduced new customer care 9400000198No need to wait just call and enter your number They will call you back

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Tharun George December 24 2013 828 am 828 AM

You have to wait for there call back Which will take 30min ndash 1 hour

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Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 832 pm 832 PM

They never called me back for my complaint

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Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 830 pm 830 PM

Idea is now giving 1GB data for Rs 123 as a special offer

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Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 144 pm 144 PM

BSNL network is dead in Kaikhali near Kolkata Airport Area for last 10 daysIt seems that BSNL network is dead in so many places of Kolkata and they are not aware of BSNL fault and it forces people to use non BSNL SIMs

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Partha December 23 2013 842 pm 842 PM

Kaushik I live in Haldiram area near kaikhali and I did not face the problem you mentioned even for one day What was your exact location is it just beside Airport area

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Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 1054 pm 1054 PM

Partha There are few towers surrounding Kaikhali near your area haldiramHaldiram cell info display is KENDRIYA VIHAR (ABC) which is working fine and I get its signal from Outside my home but inside its stength is NIL Only I get cell info KAMALAPUR(ABC) ampDASODRONE(ABC) with 1 bar from balcony with fluctuation every 1 minuteBut the tower with KAIKHALI(ABC) cell info is not working from last 10 days which is the nearest tower from my house which is situated at Main road of VIP

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Kaushik Roy December 26 2013 1119 pm 1119 PM

Finally BSNL cell info (KAIKHALI ABC) tower started working from tonight after almost 12 days

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Saurabh December 23 2013 127 pm 127 PM

Since they gave tender for expansion in North zone I hope that their service will get better in Haryana and 3G will become available by October but none of the things happened Instead their 2G network which was worst before gettingmore and more worst here The indoor signal in my area in whatever house you check is nil to 1 bar only Those living near the BTS also face call drops You canrsquot call without voice cracking The network is just getting to bottom andno one to take care I have BSNL SIM which I recharge only once in a year with Rs34 validity extension to keep it alive as I keep SIM to check service quality

Whenever you call customer care the IVR says ldquoYour extimated hold time is 35 minutes 27 secrdquo and always over it Their CC is complete dumb and people at CSC are just illiterate who has only one answer for all the question ldquoBhaiyeh toh upar waley log decide karenge tabhi upgrade hoga Ab tumhara signal nahi aata toh hum kya karerdquo Their quality is sucking to the bottom at 60shy70 places Their VLR data shows that not even 10 lakh out of 30 lakh subscribersusing it Now you can understand why

Thanks to the private companies like Vodafone and Idea and Airtel also who have ubiquitous network and even after having 3shy4 times of BSNL subscribers their network works like charm and 99 uptime Thanks to Idea for providing3G to city towns villages and everywhere I went it was there Today I donrsquot have a single contact which is of BSNL and those I have are ported out to AVoId only

Videocon has started expansion and now have more active customers than BSNL in Haryana and soon they will have mre than that of Tata and Reliance Their is a limit to stupidity and BSNLhad crossed it since it started The conditionhere is even worst then what it was in 2004 It seems that BSNL is handling 500 customers per tower here which is chocking network all the day Few weeks back their network kept dead for 3 days So those who are on bsnl are losingeverything

I hope they donrsquot launch 3G in towns as their 2G signal is 1 bar on 1800 MHz What it will be on 2100 MHz 3G bandhellip They should save money and never launch 3G in towns in Haryana A slap to BSNL face from me

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John Thomas December 23 2013 116 pm 116 PM

What ever the writer suggested will never been going to implement I am been very long investigating BSNL policies and methodsi found that bsnl is administered by very corrupted ones Inefficient officers are getting on the top The

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main reason why people donrsquot choose bsnl is thateven though if there is a tower nearby to ones homeit is hard to find signal inside their home Government still holds bsnl nothing for but to maintain a security level in communicationof strategic important ones

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Ramesh Darji December 23 2013 1140 am 1140 AM

Dear Sanjay I want address issue of tata docomo not BSNL BSNL is govt company and some can understand but what happen to TataIn gujarat they have 3G but surprisingly they stop expanding 3G coverage Worst ever they switch off many sites in rural areas and highways In gujarat late entrant Uninor and videocon even doing better than tataIts worst ever they offers and schemes Their offer is changing so fast that customer lost trust on themStill they are riding on photon+ in maharastra and mumbai but their time is now over They are not realising adoption of 3G and still their data package is much higherOn the other hand realince and other 3G operator providing much cheaper 3G 156 now for realince 3G 299 for 2GB for MTNL and others are offering goodReliance Joi will launch service in short period and I think BSNL and other private operator who is not much serious about customer choice will be finished

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jz December 23 2013 1126 am 1126 AM

bsnl is cheap and best but didnrsquot know how to encash it

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Vamsi December 30 2013 1009 am 1009 AM

Hi frnd hellipthx for the article and my view was BSNL has a robust network to serve india better than any private company but The main and only obstacle was their employs hellipthe higher authority should initiate necessary steps todeploy corporate style to bsnlhellipbecz we all know that working hours of bsnl employs are not up to the mark so make them(Employes) work and serve better

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mr rai December 24 2013 541 pm 541 PM

bsnl is run by corrupt babus and ministers hence it will always make huge loss and suck common man blood money

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Arun K G December 24 2013 854 pm 854 PM

Can you tell any goverment public enterprise which donrsquot have any ind of curreption

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AA December 24 2013 523 pm 523 PM

BSNL is the legacy of the govt they will neither abondone nor let it function it is a source of corruption I am sure BSNL will continue to survive for the selfish motivies of the babus

Unless QoS and accountability improves nothing else is possible the effective way to use bsnl is to use it as backup (secoundary) number Bsnl is not in the business race hence forget about drastic improvement The least you expectthe happier you are

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rahul December 24 2013 457 pm 457 PM

bsnl plan validity scheme should change out it gives only 6 month validity to compete than others private companies gives near bout 3 years validity and after time goes on validity automatically increased but in bsnl validity game islike a supari killer who contract for a money and have a crime just like bsnl also make compulsion of validity recharge to keep active also sound quality of a call is bull shit and several drawbacks must removed

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Umesh Singh December 24 2013 250 pm 250 PM

1) BSNL should be allowed to give political parties funding so that it can get tailored made policies like other private operator

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narapareddyp December 24 2013 237 pm 237 PM

In my district(anantapurap) BSNL have 3G network only in few areaswe want more 3G NETWORK

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D Rajendra December 24 2013 135 pm 135 PM

13 yrs have been passed after merger from DOT to BSNL(PSU) but no corporate work culture is devloped among the employeesThis may be one of the reasonsSo first step to make BSNL profitable to motive and wtrngthen themarketing culture

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RKrishna Rao December 24 2013 105 pm 105 PM

The employees and their unionsassociations of BSNL had continuously raised issues concerning the development and expansion of the services Much more to be done to improve the services The mindshyset of the employees needs to befurther improved to face the present challenges and for ensuring a better service to the customers They should always remember that they are important stakeshyholders of the company and at the service of the nation and its people Theyshould educate the employees to seek the support of people for strengthening BSNL

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Abhijit December 24 2013 1256 pm 1256 PM

BSNL can come in profit by charging heavily to its customers who are already paying more than the service quality

hellip just joking as that will end BSNL

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Ganesh December 24 2013 1245 pm 1245 PM

Hey very good pointsI agree with anti corruption measures I bought a new BSNL landline and the line men came 1 week late and they didnrsquot even give the line properly (no dial tone) and when I said thanks they were like give us some money (instead ofthanks) I gave them 20 rupees and they were like who wants those I just told them that I didnrsquot have any Then they went away leaving that 20 But even after 1 week there was no dial tone I then had to complaint to the officials aboutthe line and then they fixed it after 7 days

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Sunil December 24 2013 1228 pm 1228 PM

Infrastructure and network of BSNL are good in comparison to other operators But only the thing to advertise the product tariffand services through employee working in BSNL Employees are only waiting for perks salary hike andother benifits they do not know the latest product and tariff of BSNL Employee working at customer service centre use to watch the time for lunch and closing the officeSome employeesofficers who are not working and even notsigning in files are enjoying service but few dedicated employeesofficer who are working hard are facing inquiries served with charge sheets due to complaints made by fellow lazy employees and contractorsupplier who wish to earnfake money without working Strict discipline is must

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Dr GL Kamei December 24 2013 1210 pm 1210 PM

Chethan S I do appreciate your suggestion c per c My Dad too serving in BSNL in Gr A executive post who I rely everything but he mention about BSNL downfall for which I am worried I am working in a med Institute after my Postshygraduationand my brother would be a med graduate very soon My Brother refuse to use BSNL Product for its poor performances I would upload comments later on

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seema December 24 2013 1207 pm 1207 PM

Lack of strong customer support is ofcourse a reason for the poor performance of BSNL but as indians we should understand BSNLs social commitment it is not profit oriented alone unlike other private operatorsSo do support BSNL LONG LIVE BSNL

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kalyankar December 29 2013 942 pm 942 PM

THANKS SEMMA GOOD COMMENTShellip

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sanjay April 10 2014 214 pm 214 PM

u r right seema

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KK Chaudhary December 24 2013 1033 am 1033 AM

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Condition of BSNL is like Nai in Thakurrsquos Barat

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Vishal Jaiswal December 24 2013 906 am 906 AM

I agree with ur views MrKumar but to cut the losses some decisons in a balanced manner has to taken like VRS for 50+ or 55+ employes to reduce no of employees Use of private agencies to market their product etc etc For a PSUprofit generation is never a motive but generating such a huge loss is also not acceptable

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krishan kumar December 24 2013 234 pm 234 PM

Vishal Jaiswal Can anyone think why BSNL in loss not because it can not make profit

VRS can reduce 50 salary expenditure of BSNL which is about 7700 Cr But giving VRS is like rdquo throw your parents out of your home because they are aged and not capable to contribute as much as they had contributed intheir time for the homerdquo

If BSNL Headed by ambani or others they can throw them even profit was reduced

BSNL is going to install GSM BTS naxalite area for our Defence forces not for profit BSNL know that to run GSM BTS in naxalite area is very difficult and incurred huge expenditure

BSNL going to ring connectivity to East area where revenue is in few crores not for profit but for the people of the country

It all depends on us rdquo If we want BSNL to live who act for the country peoplerdquoIndian Politician doing their best effort to sell BSNL to fill their pockets

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kmalakondaiah December 24 2013 838 am 838 AM

sir i appreciate your analasis and suggestions for improvementi am adding following points ror reaching profits1) attituderespectfriendly atmospherepatience listiningcaringimportancehelping naturepositive approachgood bodylanguage towards custmers is very very very essentials and invitableBSNL is now improving stage when comparedto PampT and DOT but not reached 100 to reach 100 behaviour traing and counselling is required to BSNL employees2) next quality of service shy borodband modemstelephone instrumentsdropwire etc topquality is to be choosen instead of poor qualitythe PampT and DOT slogan lowest price is to be forgotten and high quality is to be kept in mind whileprocuring stores3)maintinance of BTS(cell towers)shy is to be improved by provisionmaintainnig generatorsbattery sets 4)attending brodband complints on top priority5)the average age of bsnl employee is 50 yrsso the existing young jtorsquos and ttas clerksare to be posted in custmer service centers and cell towers maintinaceOr by hiring youngsters between 18shy25 years the 5 lakh employees come down to 25 lakhs now it will comedown to 2 lakhs by 2015BSNL existance is very much essential for the safety our country and to arrest private operators earning money from custemersfor example when the introduction of mobiles by private operators you know they charged for incoming andoutgoing calls at very very high rateswhen BSNL allowed to start mobiles they tariff come down and all the custmers were benifitedfinally one common problem facing by all the custemers from all the telecom operatots is shy some amount is deducting without knowledgeconsent of custemers by means of content providers servicesvalue added servicesall custemersare suffering and bitterly complining on this cheating processThis is highly objectionable and against to indian constitutionso i request all the custemers and eminent people to take all stps to arrest this cheatingi specially requestsupreme court lawers to takeup this issue and stop this cheating

kmalakondaiahBSNL employeevisakhapatnam andhrapradesh

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DrSrinagesh Poduri June 3 2014 1050 am 1050 AM

Dear Malakondaiah garu I am now at Australia If you remember I met you last month I am from Bhimili I purchased a postpaid connection with International Roaming after reaching here when I tried to activate it says thatthe SIM card registration failed Could you please check if the card has been activated for international roaming Thank you

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krishan kumar December 24 2013 1247 am 1247 AM

I want to share some point about BSNL

1 BSNL is feeding 254 Lakh family in india where as other private operator having 5 to 10 of this 70 employees are more than 50+ can they exist in other telecom company2 BSNL still running Landline services in rural areas and facing a loss of 10000 Cr per year where no other operate even think to go in dream3 BSNL still running more than 1000 exchanges where monthly revenue is about 5000 to 6000 but bill of electricity and security in about one lakh per month4 BSNL is giving broadband services in thousands of rural exchange where other operator not even ready to edge network5 In my district BSNL have 3G network in all taluka where only few operator have 3G network in district only I am living in city where Asia largest refinery exist6 Can you imagine the tariff rates AirtelVodafone and Idea If BSNL not in market7 BSNL have its connectivity in lehladakh amarnath siachen etc only for the person who protect our country can touch with their family in such tough condition

there are so many points otherhelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip which makes BSNL for country

If BSNL wants to be become in profit it can be done in 6 monthshelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

1 Reduce employees strength upto 30000 and make unemployment for about 220 lakh employees Airtel having revenue 40000 cr having only 25000 employees3 Close all rural exchanges and cut them from indian economy and save about 10000 Cr per year This is enough to make BSNL in profit4 Close all 3G BTS in rural where it can unable to generate revenue equal to its electricity bill to running the BTS5 Close all BTS in remote area and make Indian defence force to suffer

there are hundreds of point other which BSNL can do to become in profit

I agree BSNL has lots of drawback but imagine the condition of India without BSNL

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Tharun George December 24 2013 815 am 815 AM

BSNL can do the following practical things to get profitable1 Close the landline service and replace all landline with WLL phones For broadband replace with 3GI am telling this because in my area BSNL is not giving both landline or broadband saying line not available2 BSNL is getting paid by UOF fund from Gov to put BTS in remote areas and nexal areas3 In Kerala Idea has more tower in rural area than BSNL Almost all towers of Idea are now 3G But BSNL has only started expanding 3G in 3 years

BSNL is not the only organization with large employees Look at railway largest Gov employer in India Still its running without much loss

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AK December 24 2013 1125 am 1125 AM

Railway has incurred Rs60000 cr loss

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Tharun George December 24 2013 235 pm 235 PM

Indian Railways(From wikipedia)Revenue Increase to INR 12568 billion (US$19 billion) (2012ndash13)Net income Increase to INR 1041 billion (US$16 billion) (2012ndash13)

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Pravat Kumar Das December 24 2013 1256 pm 1256 PM

Very good point about BSNL thanks

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rangarajan December 24 2013 308 pm 308 PM

sirBSNL has a huge work force to be reduced by VRS (VOL REmoval scheme) already i informed authority to work with 30000 to get profit but CMD is calm cos he is retiring in June 2014rangarajan

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A RAO December 24 2013 423 pm 423 PM

All private operators do business BSNL gives Services to public BSNL wants profit it can come with in a year profit by doing business like private opertorsBSNL moto is to give best possible services to public in every corner ofIndia and it is ready to give restore immediately the communication when disastrous rains floods etc occures then the private operators for example a Appreciation letter from Govt of India received for restoration communicationservices at Uttarkand in june 2013 when a big disastrous happened

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sanjay April 10 2014 216 pm 216 PM

good comments sir

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kalyankar December 29 2013 945 pm 945 PM

SIR GOOD COMMENTShelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

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sand December 23 2013 1112 pm 1112 PM

chetan

My idea is that bsnl should have tailor made plans and also special offers for customers who make good amount of rechargesA gift would always make a consumer feel important and he would stick around

Postpaid is the greatest revenue generatorBring down the security deposits at par or lower than private firmsCouple it with the fair and transparent billing of bsnl and they will be instant hit

Have a greatly responsible cust care that responds

Cut down broadband prices now instead of doing it wen maybe 4g brings down tariffs and people have already migratedcustomer loyalty always has its own magic

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sand December 23 2013 1107 pm 1107 PM

Chetan

In my mail apart from the complaints i had mentioned these same things to the CMD as some ideasI dont know if he took any notice of that but since his office acted on the complaint i guess he took notice

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sand December 23 2013 1104 pm 1104 PM

chetan

I have been complaining for the last 2 yrs to fix the bsnlsupportFinally last month i decided to escalate matters furtherI sent my complaint to the CMD of BSNL with the kerala circle head in ccThis was my final attemptIt workedI got a mail back from CMD SECTTAlso complaints of mine were being called up and followed up by the circle head or someone in keralaIf you dont trust me i could put the screen shot of the reply i got hereI think all bsnlcustomers should try thisI even offered the CMD the recorded call with customer care which gave me a 53 min hold timeI think since we choose to vent our anger here and there an dnot take it up in the official way we get no replies or fixesIf every consumer facing the issue instead complains and follows it up and makes sure it gets heard then yes we candefinitly make changes

I ask every bsnl customer to do the same and then we will see the changesDont give up by porting or adjustGet ur voice heard

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k thirmal reddy December 23 2013 1036 pm 1036 PM

Here I should mention thatIf there is any PSU in India without itrsquos own responsible and accountable top managementthat is the one and only BSNLIt is a peculiar situation in BSNLEven after 13 years of its formation it still workslike a Govtdept Definitely there are a handful of top managers of impeccable integrity and concern for itwho can make things happen The best trained executives and prime assets and latest infra are the core strengths They should notbe underestimated The non performing assets to be made performing through innovative methods There are constraintsProfit making is not the ultimate visionbut Hope BSNL shall survive and come up with flags to enhance value inthe hands of customers and save the people of India from the clutches of private coSif Govt has the will to serve the people through BSNL

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b m b December 23 2013 1025 pm 1025 PM

UPA Govt should release all Dues pending from DOT some schemes to be announces like Ex MOS Paswanji schemes of Rs500connectionOfficialsofficers of GOVT should use BSNLHON MOC can look in bottle neck GSMnetworks needs of BSNL

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Vikas agarwal December 23 2013 956 pm 956 PM

I do not think now BSNL can compete with Private operatorsOne SDE of BSNL namely Sailash yadav of Faridabad earning black money and nobody is taking any action against himhe is working in tax section

So if condition like these continues and strict action if not taken then people will fed up from BSNl

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Darshan Malu December 23 2013 944 pm 944 PM

It should be published in newspapers media everywherehellipso that RK upadhya will know abt ithellipor your efforts going 2 b utter wastehellipplz possible mail this post to media mails like to TOI or NDTV or ET or anywhete possiblei amsure they will appreciate u r efforts and will publish themhellip

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Ducts December 23 2013 940 pm 940 PM

Nothing is going to improveIndia is a country where the top officials r oldhellipu can c our pmhellipeven with bsnl same thinghellipthat rk upadhay i think can even not operate his email id i think bcuz after sending so many email that man doesnt even have sense ofreplyinghellipuck u r company n sry not company actually u n ur corrupt teamhellipSaala samajhta nahi its nly our indiarsquos losshellipif u c ATampThellipDue 2 its QoS people dont even think to go for TshymobilehellipIndian government koh bhi samajtha nahi to appoint youngsters in such job by seeing what he actually knows n with gud marketting skillshellipWTF even after having pan india 3G lincense one would had taken advantage of it n make company to move forwardhellipRk upadhay u just take retirement u r mind age has no more ideas its time u r mind needs SANYAS

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Rishabh December 23 2013 1041 pm 1041 PM

+100000000

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Akhil Mohan December 23 2013 913 pm 913 PM

My experienceFor the last two weeks there is no internet in my 3G connection It connects but no data transfer takes place Registered a complaint with the no 9400000198 an waited for their call for 1 week but no one called me and today i received amessage saying your complaint has been closedHow will a company like this ever make profit If govt tries to bail out BSNL i may even try to go to court to prevent that because public dont need to pay for their wrong doings and inefficency

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derik December 23 2013 843 pm 843 PM

BSNL IS THE BEST IN KERALA AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE THE MARKET LEADER VERY SOONhelliphellipI LOVE BSNLhelliphellip

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LShobha December 23 2013 812 pm 812 PM

I would like to comment on corruption Eradicating corruption should be TOP DOWN approach and not BOTTOM UP approach Corruption cannot be cleansed from lineman to CMD but the other way around BSNL is a governmentcompany and obviously it will be a reflection of how our government is being run ndash scam ridden ndash Coalgate 2G Maharashtra dam scandalCommonwealth games scandal Robert Vadra Scandal mining scandal etc etc As the sayinggoes ndash ldquoYathah Raja Thathah PrajardquoBSNL has its share of scams within ndash awarding of contracts by top management to Boston Consulting Group appointing brand ambassadors to Ms Preity Zinta Deepika Padukone without any tangible result Perhaps the biggest ofthem all is the BSNL CDMA services Crores of public money invested without any revenueAs for the employees it is better to offer VRS to all the DOT recruited employees and hand over the organisation to the BSNL recruited youngsters and make them more accountableFinally BSNL should continue to exist in the larger interests of the countryrsquos security The government can not allow the Mittals Ambanis Tatas and Birlas to pocket crores of rupees money to gift aeroplanes to their wives and celebrateglitzy and glamorous wedding anniversaries and build Antilias with helicopter landing pads

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joseph joy christopher December 23 2013 747 pm 747 PM

BSNL Lags in1)proper plans2)no permanent tariff some plan came within 2 weekrsquos it will be removed eg 12rs roaming pack3)bad customer service4) even using gprs packs is not allowed in tn circle on black out days even with pack it is chargable

Prorsquos1)core network in all arearsquos

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SAHIL December 23 2013 703 pm 703 PM

BSNL CAN NEVER AND WILL NEVER IMPROVE OR CHANGE BECAUSE ITS RUN BY CORRUPT CRONIES OF PRIVATE OPERATORS AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS WHOSE ONLY AGENDA IS TO DESTROY BSNLAND BENEFIT PRIVATE OPERSTORS BSNL IS ALREADY ANOTHER AIR INDIA IN MAKING ULTIMATELY BSNL LOSSES WILL BE FUNDED FROM INDIAN CONSUMERS AND TAX PAYERS HARD EARNEDMONEY BUT AFTER 2014 ELECTIONS MODI WILL CLEAN UP THESE CORRUPT PEOPLE AND BSNL WILL IMPROVE

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Panditji December 23 2013 621 pm 621 PM

It is completely true that BSNL does not care its customers I surrendered a BSNL land line connection in Muzaffarpur Bihar only because of its employees After many request to its concern officials (even to higher official BSNLMuzaffarpur) no proper step was taken for a long period but every bishymonth i was served with a suitable bill and finally i unwillingly surrendered the connection This is what BSNL officials care its customers If this situation remainscontinued BSNL will never go in profit

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Satheesh December 23 2013 606 pm 606 PM

Myself is a BSNL employee I think the real problem lies with the TOP management Top level management is still DOT staff and deputation to BSNL Most of them are least bothered about the future of the Company and they are onlyburocrats and no professionalism which is the need of the hour They are not at all accountable for their activities and not ready to accept the feedback given by other stake holders such as employees franchisees etc Only proffessionalmanagement can rescue the organisation

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js December 23 2013 833 pm 833 PM

The pathetic state of the BSNL is purely because of the very bad attitude of the employees Employees are only interested in salary hike for every pay commission and spend least time in office If you want to see the attitude of theemployees you should go to an exchange or customer care center As a BSNL employee did you recommend any of your family or relatives to use BSNL product Do you know all details of BSNL products provided in your circleFirst BSNL employee should confidently market the product with their friends and relatives and they are the prime source of brand building They will blame BSNL then how they will be able to build the brand 2lakhs employeesif they try their best then BSNL can be profitable within 6months Customers need BSNL service but if BSNL can reach customers then people will always opt for it BSNL has the best tariff plans best coverage and no hiddencharges So only attitude of the employees should change not higher officials It is just an excuse to runaway from responsibilities by blaming higher officials This is what always BSNL employees union do

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Akhil Mohan December 23 2013 915 pm 915 PM

No body wants BSNL to improve Please shutdownhellip

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js December 24 2013 954 am 954 AM

AkhilBefore commenting on this you should know India first 90 percentage of mobile users do not want 3G or 4G or any data use They use mobile only to contact near and dear ones BSNL is the only service provider whoprovided service in rural areas small panchayats naxal affected areas and even Jammu and Kashmir where our soldiers are totally depending on BSNL network to contact their near and dear ones Pvt providers only look atprofit and even betray nation for the sake of money All defence orgs can only depend on BSNL and not any other service provider In UK customers did an agitation against vodafone on not paying the tax But in Indiacustomers will get more attracted by just the brand name and since it is a foreign operator and even though they do all tax frauds

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SS December 24 2013 1131 am 1131 AM

I still believe that vodafone tax case is completely non sense When vodafone acquired hutch there was no such law to tax transactions between companies incorporated outside india (the same supreme court ruled)Now they changed law to extract money by hook or by crook Is this a way

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krishna December 23 2013 516 pm 516 PM

Sometimes the strength becomes weakness The same is happening in BSNL ie Excess staff (Comparing with Private operators) is one of the reason for loss The management should take some bold decisions like giving VRSminimising retirement age from 60 to 58 (as major CPSU had the retirement age as 58)

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Chandra Sekhar Mandal December 23 2013 430 pm 430 PM

Previously i was using BSNL because it was giving 8 GB 2G [although i was getting 3G speed every time i recharged on my sim] data for just Rs219 for 30 days But after they unified 2G and 3G packs i did no recharge on that BSNL

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sim and its validity is also over I was a BSNL customer just because data purposeBSNL GO TO HELLhellip

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id December 23 2013 826 pm 826 PM

still its cheaper than others tariff

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deril December 23 2013 851 pm 851 PM

poor

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BatMAn December 23 2013 430 pm 430 PM

The funniest thing i have noticed isWhen ever Electricity in my area is down the same timethe BSNL network signal will be zero after a few minutes signal will be restored(Even if Electricity is Restored or not)i think they are have to start the DG Manuallyor No proper UPShellipif we are in a call the call will be doped Bsnl Karnataka Circle

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Rama December 23 2013 332 pm 332 PM

SaurabhHow did you know that BSNL has given out contract to expand netwrok in north indiaif you have any other source than tt and economic times would you please share it

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SS December 23 2013 322 pm 322 PM

This isnrsquot a new news This was expected and it happened Thanks to the worst management of bsnl In my circle up east there are fairly large no Of customers but ironically only 42 are active as per trairsquos report On the other handvodafone has 9970 active users and its 2g services are superior among all here My father uses bsnl only for 151shy400 mins tariff and would surely dump it if they ditch that scheme

Data services are worst than hell in bsnl For 20 days of month 2g data remains down and 3g goes down many times a day

Interconnectivity problems in bsnl are not uncommon Last time they blocked calls to vodafone for 2 months and only bsnl customers suffered I use airtel in delhi and its awesome in quality of service No single issue to complain aboutIn up east i use idea because of its robust 3g network all over the state Bsnl must to learn from them

But bsnl in far more superior than tata docomo reliance gsm aircel Lets hope that they improve

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Adil December 23 2013 950 pm 950 PM

ss i always use to agree to you but this time in climax i deny to your comment bsnl is worst than all operator whether it is docomo aircel reliance in fact uninor is far better than bsnlhellipthat is why uninor is making positive cashflow where as bsnl dying

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Aam Admi December 23 2013 221 pm 221 PM

ldquo8 Shut down loss making telephone exchanges or the ones which bring less revenue ndash many people opt for landline just due to broadband benefits through such exchanges (mainly rural) 3G data cards at special prices could beencouraged at such placesrdquo

As you already know 3G data cards are not a substitute to wired broadband I pay around 1000 INR for a broadband connection while living in a rural area Irsquom ready to pay more if BSNL can offer a 1 Mbps unlimited without FUPplan I keep my line only for broadband(a lot of people)

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Chethan S December 23 2013 713 pm 713 PM

Though I enjoy good quality Beam Fiber connection here in Hyderabad my familyrsquos situation is like yours back in my home town Our home falls in a BSNL Rural exchangersquos limits There particularly in the rainy season due tothunderstorms BSNL officials power off the telephone exchange during nights and even during weekends as an anticipatory measure depriving us of broadband connectivity Having a night unlimited connection we find itextremely the difficult to use internet within data usage limits As you said 3G data card is certainly not an alternative to wired broadband but if service is not good 3G at special rates would be welcome

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Tharun George December 23 2013 153 pm 153 PM

The only reason I am on BSNL is for cheap 3G and good 2G coverage All other things of BSNL are worst Call rates are not that low 2G internet is pathetic cannot even open google It takes 45min to get connected to customer careNetwork busy low quality sound

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prithvi December 23 2013 336 pm 336 PM

Exactly +1 BSNL

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Sugu December 23 2013 835 pm 835 PM

Tharun Well thatrsquos really surprising coz I have never faced such situation once when i had a problem ie Rs5 being deducted every week for no reason I went to their Thirunakkara Office and complained 2 days later Ireceived an SMS saying that my issue had been solved and even refunded me About the tariff in my knowledge it is providing cheapest base tariff among the operators i know I may be wrong and about 2G speed i always geta speed above 10kBshere is my speed test 2G httpwwwspeedtestnetmyshyresulta674883594

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Tharun George December 24 2013 827 am 827 AM

BSNL never deducted nay of my money As far as tariff go it is as high as private Most plans are 15ps and only mithram plan has 13ps STV are also costly

10KBs is very very low Your ping is very bad PING 903 ms Try opening gmail with it I have tested all operators 2G speed in Kerala Here are the resultDocomoshy 236kbpsAircelshy 225kbps (Shutdown)Relianceshy 225kbpsIdea ndash 170kbpsVodafone ndash 140kbpsAirtel ndash 100kbpsBSNL ndash 100kbps

For 3G BSNL has speed between 1shy2mbps But Idea 3G gives 6mbps at most time I use Reliance for 2G internet and calling Rs 74 STV gives 1p2sec for 6 months Lowest tariff in India

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Tharun George December 24 2013 830 am 830 AM

By the way you went to Kottayam office to get Rs 5 back Once I had gone there to pay Rs 4 bill for landline They laughed at me and asked how much Bus fare I spend to get there

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sugu December 24 2013 220 pm 220 PM

I said above 10kBs And it deducted Rs5 for 4 weeks I did not say anything about the refund but still they did and about 3G after 1030 I always get only about 50shy70kBs at home But at the morning it flies of to500shy700kBs when I went to my friendrsquos home at kumaranellor therersquos even H+ and I downloaded 270MB under 8 minuteshellipBus fare lol Vadavathoor to Old bus standhellip 6rshellip lolhellipBTW only 4rs landline what was your plan I hardly use tye landline the connection is only to avail broadband

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Tharun George December 24 2013 700 pm 700 PM

Vadavathoor We are so close yet meet online I am here just before Manarcad I most signal from Vadavathoor tower

I used to pay for 1 year for landline + broadband Some times exceed and they send Rs 2 or Rs 4 bills by postal Postage itself is Rs 4 for them

Disconnected BSNL broadband and landline this month I have Asianet broadband and Relaince 2G If you are using BSNL Broadband better switch to Asianet 4mbps broadband plans

I used to get 3G signal from BSNL tower at vadavathoor But 2 months ago BSNL added 3G to Rubber Board tower BTW I get signal for all private operators from Vadavathoor Does Docomo have tower atVadavathoor I am complaining for past 5 years to them about no coverage

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Sugu December 25 2013 527 pm 527 PM

Ah I think not Actually where does Docomo have towers My home is 2KM away from Thirunakkara Mostly I walk By the time I reach home BSNL will have switched through 3Towers (all 3G)while Docomo still remains connected to Thirunakkara I just get 1bar of range here and if I go to the hall no coverage Even when I went to my friends house 5km away its the same towerhellipIf you use android then download Network Signal Info it gives all details about that tower

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Riju VV December 23 2013 1029 pm 1029 PM

Bsnl kerala already introduced new customer care 9400000198No need to wait just call and enter your number They will call you back

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Tharun George December 24 2013 828 am 828 AM

You have to wait for there call back Which will take 30min ndash 1 hour

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Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 832 pm 832 PM

They never called me back for my complaint

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Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 830 pm 830 PM

Idea is now giving 1GB data for Rs 123 as a special offer

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Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 144 pm 144 PM

BSNL network is dead in Kaikhali near Kolkata Airport Area for last 10 daysIt seems that BSNL network is dead in so many places of Kolkata and they are not aware of BSNL fault and it forces people to use non BSNL SIMs

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Partha December 23 2013 842 pm 842 PM

Kaushik I live in Haldiram area near kaikhali and I did not face the problem you mentioned even for one day What was your exact location is it just beside Airport area

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Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 1054 pm 1054 PM

Partha There are few towers surrounding Kaikhali near your area haldiramHaldiram cell info display is KENDRIYA VIHAR (ABC) which is working fine and I get its signal from Outside my home but inside its stength is NIL Only I get cell info KAMALAPUR(ABC) ampDASODRONE(ABC) with 1 bar from balcony with fluctuation every 1 minuteBut the tower with KAIKHALI(ABC) cell info is not working from last 10 days which is the nearest tower from my house which is situated at Main road of VIP

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Kaushik Roy December 26 2013 1119 pm 1119 PM

Finally BSNL cell info (KAIKHALI ABC) tower started working from tonight after almost 12 days

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Saurabh December 23 2013 127 pm 127 PM

Since they gave tender for expansion in North zone I hope that their service will get better in Haryana and 3G will become available by October but none of the things happened Instead their 2G network which was worst before gettingmore and more worst here The indoor signal in my area in whatever house you check is nil to 1 bar only Those living near the BTS also face call drops You canrsquot call without voice cracking The network is just getting to bottom andno one to take care I have BSNL SIM which I recharge only once in a year with Rs34 validity extension to keep it alive as I keep SIM to check service quality

Whenever you call customer care the IVR says ldquoYour extimated hold time is 35 minutes 27 secrdquo and always over it Their CC is complete dumb and people at CSC are just illiterate who has only one answer for all the question ldquoBhaiyeh toh upar waley log decide karenge tabhi upgrade hoga Ab tumhara signal nahi aata toh hum kya karerdquo Their quality is sucking to the bottom at 60shy70 places Their VLR data shows that not even 10 lakh out of 30 lakh subscribersusing it Now you can understand why

Thanks to the private companies like Vodafone and Idea and Airtel also who have ubiquitous network and even after having 3shy4 times of BSNL subscribers their network works like charm and 99 uptime Thanks to Idea for providing3G to city towns villages and everywhere I went it was there Today I donrsquot have a single contact which is of BSNL and those I have are ported out to AVoId only

Videocon has started expansion and now have more active customers than BSNL in Haryana and soon they will have mre than that of Tata and Reliance Their is a limit to stupidity and BSNLhad crossed it since it started The conditionhere is even worst then what it was in 2004 It seems that BSNL is handling 500 customers per tower here which is chocking network all the day Few weeks back their network kept dead for 3 days So those who are on bsnl are losingeverything

I hope they donrsquot launch 3G in towns as their 2G signal is 1 bar on 1800 MHz What it will be on 2100 MHz 3G bandhellip They should save money and never launch 3G in towns in Haryana A slap to BSNL face from me

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John Thomas December 23 2013 116 pm 116 PM

What ever the writer suggested will never been going to implement I am been very long investigating BSNL policies and methodsi found that bsnl is administered by very corrupted ones Inefficient officers are getting on the top The

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main reason why people donrsquot choose bsnl is thateven though if there is a tower nearby to ones homeit is hard to find signal inside their home Government still holds bsnl nothing for but to maintain a security level in communicationof strategic important ones

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Ramesh Darji December 23 2013 1140 am 1140 AM

Dear Sanjay I want address issue of tata docomo not BSNL BSNL is govt company and some can understand but what happen to TataIn gujarat they have 3G but surprisingly they stop expanding 3G coverage Worst ever they switch off many sites in rural areas and highways In gujarat late entrant Uninor and videocon even doing better than tataIts worst ever they offers and schemes Their offer is changing so fast that customer lost trust on themStill they are riding on photon+ in maharastra and mumbai but their time is now over They are not realising adoption of 3G and still their data package is much higherOn the other hand realince and other 3G operator providing much cheaper 3G 156 now for realince 3G 299 for 2GB for MTNL and others are offering goodReliance Joi will launch service in short period and I think BSNL and other private operator who is not much serious about customer choice will be finished

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jz December 23 2013 1126 am 1126 AM

bsnl is cheap and best but didnrsquot know how to encash it

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Vamsi December 30 2013 1009 am 1009 AM

Hi frnd hellipthx for the article and my view was BSNL has a robust network to serve india better than any private company but The main and only obstacle was their employs hellipthe higher authority should initiate necessary steps todeploy corporate style to bsnlhellipbecz we all know that working hours of bsnl employs are not up to the mark so make them(Employes) work and serve better

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Condition of BSNL is like Nai in Thakurrsquos Barat

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Vishal Jaiswal December 24 2013 906 am 906 AM

I agree with ur views MrKumar but to cut the losses some decisons in a balanced manner has to taken like VRS for 50+ or 55+ employes to reduce no of employees Use of private agencies to market their product etc etc For a PSUprofit generation is never a motive but generating such a huge loss is also not acceptable

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krishan kumar December 24 2013 234 pm 234 PM

Vishal Jaiswal Can anyone think why BSNL in loss not because it can not make profit

VRS can reduce 50 salary expenditure of BSNL which is about 7700 Cr But giving VRS is like rdquo throw your parents out of your home because they are aged and not capable to contribute as much as they had contributed intheir time for the homerdquo

If BSNL Headed by ambani or others they can throw them even profit was reduced

BSNL is going to install GSM BTS naxalite area for our Defence forces not for profit BSNL know that to run GSM BTS in naxalite area is very difficult and incurred huge expenditure

BSNL going to ring connectivity to East area where revenue is in few crores not for profit but for the people of the country

It all depends on us rdquo If we want BSNL to live who act for the country peoplerdquoIndian Politician doing their best effort to sell BSNL to fill their pockets

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kmalakondaiah December 24 2013 838 am 838 AM

sir i appreciate your analasis and suggestions for improvementi am adding following points ror reaching profits1) attituderespectfriendly atmospherepatience listiningcaringimportancehelping naturepositive approachgood bodylanguage towards custmers is very very very essentials and invitableBSNL is now improving stage when comparedto PampT and DOT but not reached 100 to reach 100 behaviour traing and counselling is required to BSNL employees2) next quality of service shy borodband modemstelephone instrumentsdropwire etc topquality is to be choosen instead of poor qualitythe PampT and DOT slogan lowest price is to be forgotten and high quality is to be kept in mind whileprocuring stores3)maintinance of BTS(cell towers)shy is to be improved by provisionmaintainnig generatorsbattery sets 4)attending brodband complints on top priority5)the average age of bsnl employee is 50 yrsso the existing young jtorsquos and ttas clerksare to be posted in custmer service centers and cell towers maintinaceOr by hiring youngsters between 18shy25 years the 5 lakh employees come down to 25 lakhs now it will comedown to 2 lakhs by 2015BSNL existance is very much essential for the safety our country and to arrest private operators earning money from custemersfor example when the introduction of mobiles by private operators you know they charged for incoming andoutgoing calls at very very high rateswhen BSNL allowed to start mobiles they tariff come down and all the custmers were benifitedfinally one common problem facing by all the custemers from all the telecom operatots is shy some amount is deducting without knowledgeconsent of custemers by means of content providers servicesvalue added servicesall custemersare suffering and bitterly complining on this cheating processThis is highly objectionable and against to indian constitutionso i request all the custemers and eminent people to take all stps to arrest this cheatingi specially requestsupreme court lawers to takeup this issue and stop this cheating

kmalakondaiahBSNL employeevisakhapatnam andhrapradesh

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DrSrinagesh Poduri June 3 2014 1050 am 1050 AM

Dear Malakondaiah garu I am now at Australia If you remember I met you last month I am from Bhimili I purchased a postpaid connection with International Roaming after reaching here when I tried to activate it says thatthe SIM card registration failed Could you please check if the card has been activated for international roaming Thank you

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krishan kumar December 24 2013 1247 am 1247 AM

I want to share some point about BSNL

1 BSNL is feeding 254 Lakh family in india where as other private operator having 5 to 10 of this 70 employees are more than 50+ can they exist in other telecom company2 BSNL still running Landline services in rural areas and facing a loss of 10000 Cr per year where no other operate even think to go in dream3 BSNL still running more than 1000 exchanges where monthly revenue is about 5000 to 6000 but bill of electricity and security in about one lakh per month4 BSNL is giving broadband services in thousands of rural exchange where other operator not even ready to edge network5 In my district BSNL have 3G network in all taluka where only few operator have 3G network in district only I am living in city where Asia largest refinery exist6 Can you imagine the tariff rates AirtelVodafone and Idea If BSNL not in market7 BSNL have its connectivity in lehladakh amarnath siachen etc only for the person who protect our country can touch with their family in such tough condition

there are so many points otherhelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip which makes BSNL for country

If BSNL wants to be become in profit it can be done in 6 monthshelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

1 Reduce employees strength upto 30000 and make unemployment for about 220 lakh employees Airtel having revenue 40000 cr having only 25000 employees3 Close all rural exchanges and cut them from indian economy and save about 10000 Cr per year This is enough to make BSNL in profit4 Close all 3G BTS in rural where it can unable to generate revenue equal to its electricity bill to running the BTS5 Close all BTS in remote area and make Indian defence force to suffer

there are hundreds of point other which BSNL can do to become in profit

I agree BSNL has lots of drawback but imagine the condition of India without BSNL

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Tharun George December 24 2013 815 am 815 AM

BSNL can do the following practical things to get profitable1 Close the landline service and replace all landline with WLL phones For broadband replace with 3GI am telling this because in my area BSNL is not giving both landline or broadband saying line not available2 BSNL is getting paid by UOF fund from Gov to put BTS in remote areas and nexal areas3 In Kerala Idea has more tower in rural area than BSNL Almost all towers of Idea are now 3G But BSNL has only started expanding 3G in 3 years

BSNL is not the only organization with large employees Look at railway largest Gov employer in India Still its running without much loss

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AK December 24 2013 1125 am 1125 AM

Railway has incurred Rs60000 cr loss

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Tharun George December 24 2013 235 pm 235 PM

Indian Railways(From wikipedia)Revenue Increase to INR 12568 billion (US$19 billion) (2012ndash13)Net income Increase to INR 1041 billion (US$16 billion) (2012ndash13)

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Pravat Kumar Das December 24 2013 1256 pm 1256 PM

Very good point about BSNL thanks

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rangarajan December 24 2013 308 pm 308 PM

sirBSNL has a huge work force to be reduced by VRS (VOL REmoval scheme) already i informed authority to work with 30000 to get profit but CMD is calm cos he is retiring in June 2014rangarajan

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A RAO December 24 2013 423 pm 423 PM

All private operators do business BSNL gives Services to public BSNL wants profit it can come with in a year profit by doing business like private opertorsBSNL moto is to give best possible services to public in every corner ofIndia and it is ready to give restore immediately the communication when disastrous rains floods etc occures then the private operators for example a Appreciation letter from Govt of India received for restoration communicationservices at Uttarkand in june 2013 when a big disastrous happened

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sanjay April 10 2014 216 pm 216 PM

good comments sir

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kalyankar December 29 2013 945 pm 945 PM

SIR GOOD COMMENTShelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

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sand December 23 2013 1112 pm 1112 PM

chetan

My idea is that bsnl should have tailor made plans and also special offers for customers who make good amount of rechargesA gift would always make a consumer feel important and he would stick around

Postpaid is the greatest revenue generatorBring down the security deposits at par or lower than private firmsCouple it with the fair and transparent billing of bsnl and they will be instant hit

Have a greatly responsible cust care that responds

Cut down broadband prices now instead of doing it wen maybe 4g brings down tariffs and people have already migratedcustomer loyalty always has its own magic

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sand December 23 2013 1107 pm 1107 PM

Chetan

In my mail apart from the complaints i had mentioned these same things to the CMD as some ideasI dont know if he took any notice of that but since his office acted on the complaint i guess he took notice

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sand December 23 2013 1104 pm 1104 PM

chetan

I have been complaining for the last 2 yrs to fix the bsnlsupportFinally last month i decided to escalate matters furtherI sent my complaint to the CMD of BSNL with the kerala circle head in ccThis was my final attemptIt workedI got a mail back from CMD SECTTAlso complaints of mine were being called up and followed up by the circle head or someone in keralaIf you dont trust me i could put the screen shot of the reply i got hereI think all bsnlcustomers should try thisI even offered the CMD the recorded call with customer care which gave me a 53 min hold timeI think since we choose to vent our anger here and there an dnot take it up in the official way we get no replies or fixesIf every consumer facing the issue instead complains and follows it up and makes sure it gets heard then yes we candefinitly make changes

I ask every bsnl customer to do the same and then we will see the changesDont give up by porting or adjustGet ur voice heard

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k thirmal reddy December 23 2013 1036 pm 1036 PM

Here I should mention thatIf there is any PSU in India without itrsquos own responsible and accountable top managementthat is the one and only BSNLIt is a peculiar situation in BSNLEven after 13 years of its formation it still workslike a Govtdept Definitely there are a handful of top managers of impeccable integrity and concern for itwho can make things happen The best trained executives and prime assets and latest infra are the core strengths They should notbe underestimated The non performing assets to be made performing through innovative methods There are constraintsProfit making is not the ultimate visionbut Hope BSNL shall survive and come up with flags to enhance value inthe hands of customers and save the people of India from the clutches of private coSif Govt has the will to serve the people through BSNL

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b m b December 23 2013 1025 pm 1025 PM

UPA Govt should release all Dues pending from DOT some schemes to be announces like Ex MOS Paswanji schemes of Rs500connectionOfficialsofficers of GOVT should use BSNLHON MOC can look in bottle neck GSMnetworks needs of BSNL

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Vikas agarwal December 23 2013 956 pm 956 PM

I do not think now BSNL can compete with Private operatorsOne SDE of BSNL namely Sailash yadav of Faridabad earning black money and nobody is taking any action against himhe is working in tax section

So if condition like these continues and strict action if not taken then people will fed up from BSNl

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Darshan Malu December 23 2013 944 pm 944 PM

It should be published in newspapers media everywherehellipso that RK upadhya will know abt ithellipor your efforts going 2 b utter wastehellipplz possible mail this post to media mails like to TOI or NDTV or ET or anywhete possiblei amsure they will appreciate u r efforts and will publish themhellip

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Ducts December 23 2013 940 pm 940 PM

Nothing is going to improveIndia is a country where the top officials r oldhellipu can c our pmhellipeven with bsnl same thinghellipthat rk upadhay i think can even not operate his email id i think bcuz after sending so many email that man doesnt even have sense ofreplyinghellipuck u r company n sry not company actually u n ur corrupt teamhellipSaala samajhta nahi its nly our indiarsquos losshellipif u c ATampThellipDue 2 its QoS people dont even think to go for TshymobilehellipIndian government koh bhi samajtha nahi to appoint youngsters in such job by seeing what he actually knows n with gud marketting skillshellipWTF even after having pan india 3G lincense one would had taken advantage of it n make company to move forwardhellipRk upadhay u just take retirement u r mind age has no more ideas its time u r mind needs SANYAS

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Rishabh December 23 2013 1041 pm 1041 PM

+100000000

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Akhil Mohan December 23 2013 913 pm 913 PM

My experienceFor the last two weeks there is no internet in my 3G connection It connects but no data transfer takes place Registered a complaint with the no 9400000198 an waited for their call for 1 week but no one called me and today i received amessage saying your complaint has been closedHow will a company like this ever make profit If govt tries to bail out BSNL i may even try to go to court to prevent that because public dont need to pay for their wrong doings and inefficency

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derik December 23 2013 843 pm 843 PM

BSNL IS THE BEST IN KERALA AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE THE MARKET LEADER VERY SOONhelliphellipI LOVE BSNLhelliphellip

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LShobha December 23 2013 812 pm 812 PM

I would like to comment on corruption Eradicating corruption should be TOP DOWN approach and not BOTTOM UP approach Corruption cannot be cleansed from lineman to CMD but the other way around BSNL is a governmentcompany and obviously it will be a reflection of how our government is being run ndash scam ridden ndash Coalgate 2G Maharashtra dam scandalCommonwealth games scandal Robert Vadra Scandal mining scandal etc etc As the sayinggoes ndash ldquoYathah Raja Thathah PrajardquoBSNL has its share of scams within ndash awarding of contracts by top management to Boston Consulting Group appointing brand ambassadors to Ms Preity Zinta Deepika Padukone without any tangible result Perhaps the biggest ofthem all is the BSNL CDMA services Crores of public money invested without any revenueAs for the employees it is better to offer VRS to all the DOT recruited employees and hand over the organisation to the BSNL recruited youngsters and make them more accountableFinally BSNL should continue to exist in the larger interests of the countryrsquos security The government can not allow the Mittals Ambanis Tatas and Birlas to pocket crores of rupees money to gift aeroplanes to their wives and celebrateglitzy and glamorous wedding anniversaries and build Antilias with helicopter landing pads

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joseph joy christopher December 23 2013 747 pm 747 PM

BSNL Lags in1)proper plans2)no permanent tariff some plan came within 2 weekrsquos it will be removed eg 12rs roaming pack3)bad customer service4) even using gprs packs is not allowed in tn circle on black out days even with pack it is chargable

Prorsquos1)core network in all arearsquos

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SAHIL December 23 2013 703 pm 703 PM

BSNL CAN NEVER AND WILL NEVER IMPROVE OR CHANGE BECAUSE ITS RUN BY CORRUPT CRONIES OF PRIVATE OPERATORS AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS WHOSE ONLY AGENDA IS TO DESTROY BSNLAND BENEFIT PRIVATE OPERSTORS BSNL IS ALREADY ANOTHER AIR INDIA IN MAKING ULTIMATELY BSNL LOSSES WILL BE FUNDED FROM INDIAN CONSUMERS AND TAX PAYERS HARD EARNEDMONEY BUT AFTER 2014 ELECTIONS MODI WILL CLEAN UP THESE CORRUPT PEOPLE AND BSNL WILL IMPROVE

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Panditji December 23 2013 621 pm 621 PM

It is completely true that BSNL does not care its customers I surrendered a BSNL land line connection in Muzaffarpur Bihar only because of its employees After many request to its concern officials (even to higher official BSNLMuzaffarpur) no proper step was taken for a long period but every bishymonth i was served with a suitable bill and finally i unwillingly surrendered the connection This is what BSNL officials care its customers If this situation remainscontinued BSNL will never go in profit

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Satheesh December 23 2013 606 pm 606 PM

Myself is a BSNL employee I think the real problem lies with the TOP management Top level management is still DOT staff and deputation to BSNL Most of them are least bothered about the future of the Company and they are onlyburocrats and no professionalism which is the need of the hour They are not at all accountable for their activities and not ready to accept the feedback given by other stake holders such as employees franchisees etc Only proffessionalmanagement can rescue the organisation

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js December 23 2013 833 pm 833 PM

The pathetic state of the BSNL is purely because of the very bad attitude of the employees Employees are only interested in salary hike for every pay commission and spend least time in office If you want to see the attitude of theemployees you should go to an exchange or customer care center As a BSNL employee did you recommend any of your family or relatives to use BSNL product Do you know all details of BSNL products provided in your circleFirst BSNL employee should confidently market the product with their friends and relatives and they are the prime source of brand building They will blame BSNL then how they will be able to build the brand 2lakhs employeesif they try their best then BSNL can be profitable within 6months Customers need BSNL service but if BSNL can reach customers then people will always opt for it BSNL has the best tariff plans best coverage and no hiddencharges So only attitude of the employees should change not higher officials It is just an excuse to runaway from responsibilities by blaming higher officials This is what always BSNL employees union do

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Akhil Mohan December 23 2013 915 pm 915 PM

No body wants BSNL to improve Please shutdownhellip

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js December 24 2013 954 am 954 AM

AkhilBefore commenting on this you should know India first 90 percentage of mobile users do not want 3G or 4G or any data use They use mobile only to contact near and dear ones BSNL is the only service provider whoprovided service in rural areas small panchayats naxal affected areas and even Jammu and Kashmir where our soldiers are totally depending on BSNL network to contact their near and dear ones Pvt providers only look atprofit and even betray nation for the sake of money All defence orgs can only depend on BSNL and not any other service provider In UK customers did an agitation against vodafone on not paying the tax But in Indiacustomers will get more attracted by just the brand name and since it is a foreign operator and even though they do all tax frauds

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SS December 24 2013 1131 am 1131 AM

I still believe that vodafone tax case is completely non sense When vodafone acquired hutch there was no such law to tax transactions between companies incorporated outside india (the same supreme court ruled)Now they changed law to extract money by hook or by crook Is this a way

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krishna December 23 2013 516 pm 516 PM

Sometimes the strength becomes weakness The same is happening in BSNL ie Excess staff (Comparing with Private operators) is one of the reason for loss The management should take some bold decisions like giving VRSminimising retirement age from 60 to 58 (as major CPSU had the retirement age as 58)

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Chandra Sekhar Mandal December 23 2013 430 pm 430 PM

Previously i was using BSNL because it was giving 8 GB 2G [although i was getting 3G speed every time i recharged on my sim] data for just Rs219 for 30 days But after they unified 2G and 3G packs i did no recharge on that BSNL

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sim and its validity is also over I was a BSNL customer just because data purposeBSNL GO TO HELLhellip

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id December 23 2013 826 pm 826 PM

still its cheaper than others tariff

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deril December 23 2013 851 pm 851 PM

poor

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BatMAn December 23 2013 430 pm 430 PM

The funniest thing i have noticed isWhen ever Electricity in my area is down the same timethe BSNL network signal will be zero after a few minutes signal will be restored(Even if Electricity is Restored or not)i think they are have to start the DG Manuallyor No proper UPShellipif we are in a call the call will be doped Bsnl Karnataka Circle

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Rama December 23 2013 332 pm 332 PM

SaurabhHow did you know that BSNL has given out contract to expand netwrok in north indiaif you have any other source than tt and economic times would you please share it

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SS December 23 2013 322 pm 322 PM

This isnrsquot a new news This was expected and it happened Thanks to the worst management of bsnl In my circle up east there are fairly large no Of customers but ironically only 42 are active as per trairsquos report On the other handvodafone has 9970 active users and its 2g services are superior among all here My father uses bsnl only for 151shy400 mins tariff and would surely dump it if they ditch that scheme

Data services are worst than hell in bsnl For 20 days of month 2g data remains down and 3g goes down many times a day

Interconnectivity problems in bsnl are not uncommon Last time they blocked calls to vodafone for 2 months and only bsnl customers suffered I use airtel in delhi and its awesome in quality of service No single issue to complain aboutIn up east i use idea because of its robust 3g network all over the state Bsnl must to learn from them

But bsnl in far more superior than tata docomo reliance gsm aircel Lets hope that they improve

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Adil December 23 2013 950 pm 950 PM

ss i always use to agree to you but this time in climax i deny to your comment bsnl is worst than all operator whether it is docomo aircel reliance in fact uninor is far better than bsnlhellipthat is why uninor is making positive cashflow where as bsnl dying

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Aam Admi December 23 2013 221 pm 221 PM

ldquo8 Shut down loss making telephone exchanges or the ones which bring less revenue ndash many people opt for landline just due to broadband benefits through such exchanges (mainly rural) 3G data cards at special prices could beencouraged at such placesrdquo

As you already know 3G data cards are not a substitute to wired broadband I pay around 1000 INR for a broadband connection while living in a rural area Irsquom ready to pay more if BSNL can offer a 1 Mbps unlimited without FUPplan I keep my line only for broadband(a lot of people)

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Chethan S December 23 2013 713 pm 713 PM

Though I enjoy good quality Beam Fiber connection here in Hyderabad my familyrsquos situation is like yours back in my home town Our home falls in a BSNL Rural exchangersquos limits There particularly in the rainy season due tothunderstorms BSNL officials power off the telephone exchange during nights and even during weekends as an anticipatory measure depriving us of broadband connectivity Having a night unlimited connection we find itextremely the difficult to use internet within data usage limits As you said 3G data card is certainly not an alternative to wired broadband but if service is not good 3G at special rates would be welcome

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Tharun George December 23 2013 153 pm 153 PM

The only reason I am on BSNL is for cheap 3G and good 2G coverage All other things of BSNL are worst Call rates are not that low 2G internet is pathetic cannot even open google It takes 45min to get connected to customer careNetwork busy low quality sound

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prithvi December 23 2013 336 pm 336 PM

Exactly +1 BSNL

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Sugu December 23 2013 835 pm 835 PM

Tharun Well thatrsquos really surprising coz I have never faced such situation once when i had a problem ie Rs5 being deducted every week for no reason I went to their Thirunakkara Office and complained 2 days later Ireceived an SMS saying that my issue had been solved and even refunded me About the tariff in my knowledge it is providing cheapest base tariff among the operators i know I may be wrong and about 2G speed i always geta speed above 10kBshere is my speed test 2G httpwwwspeedtestnetmyshyresulta674883594

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Tharun George December 24 2013 827 am 827 AM

BSNL never deducted nay of my money As far as tariff go it is as high as private Most plans are 15ps and only mithram plan has 13ps STV are also costly

10KBs is very very low Your ping is very bad PING 903 ms Try opening gmail with it I have tested all operators 2G speed in Kerala Here are the resultDocomoshy 236kbpsAircelshy 225kbps (Shutdown)Relianceshy 225kbpsIdea ndash 170kbpsVodafone ndash 140kbpsAirtel ndash 100kbpsBSNL ndash 100kbps

For 3G BSNL has speed between 1shy2mbps But Idea 3G gives 6mbps at most time I use Reliance for 2G internet and calling Rs 74 STV gives 1p2sec for 6 months Lowest tariff in India

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Tharun George December 24 2013 830 am 830 AM

By the way you went to Kottayam office to get Rs 5 back Once I had gone there to pay Rs 4 bill for landline They laughed at me and asked how much Bus fare I spend to get there

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sugu December 24 2013 220 pm 220 PM

I said above 10kBs And it deducted Rs5 for 4 weeks I did not say anything about the refund but still they did and about 3G after 1030 I always get only about 50shy70kBs at home But at the morning it flies of to500shy700kBs when I went to my friendrsquos home at kumaranellor therersquos even H+ and I downloaded 270MB under 8 minuteshellipBus fare lol Vadavathoor to Old bus standhellip 6rshellip lolhellipBTW only 4rs landline what was your plan I hardly use tye landline the connection is only to avail broadband

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Tharun George December 24 2013 700 pm 700 PM

Vadavathoor We are so close yet meet online I am here just before Manarcad I most signal from Vadavathoor tower

I used to pay for 1 year for landline + broadband Some times exceed and they send Rs 2 or Rs 4 bills by postal Postage itself is Rs 4 for them

Disconnected BSNL broadband and landline this month I have Asianet broadband and Relaince 2G If you are using BSNL Broadband better switch to Asianet 4mbps broadband plans

I used to get 3G signal from BSNL tower at vadavathoor But 2 months ago BSNL added 3G to Rubber Board tower BTW I get signal for all private operators from Vadavathoor Does Docomo have tower atVadavathoor I am complaining for past 5 years to them about no coverage

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Sugu December 25 2013 527 pm 527 PM

Ah I think not Actually where does Docomo have towers My home is 2KM away from Thirunakkara Mostly I walk By the time I reach home BSNL will have switched through 3Towers (all 3G)while Docomo still remains connected to Thirunakkara I just get 1bar of range here and if I go to the hall no coverage Even when I went to my friends house 5km away its the same towerhellipIf you use android then download Network Signal Info it gives all details about that tower

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Riju VV December 23 2013 1029 pm 1029 PM

Bsnl kerala already introduced new customer care 9400000198No need to wait just call and enter your number They will call you back

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Tharun George December 24 2013 828 am 828 AM

You have to wait for there call back Which will take 30min ndash 1 hour

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Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 832 pm 832 PM

They never called me back for my complaint

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Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 830 pm 830 PM

Idea is now giving 1GB data for Rs 123 as a special offer

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Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 144 pm 144 PM

BSNL network is dead in Kaikhali near Kolkata Airport Area for last 10 daysIt seems that BSNL network is dead in so many places of Kolkata and they are not aware of BSNL fault and it forces people to use non BSNL SIMs

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Partha December 23 2013 842 pm 842 PM

Kaushik I live in Haldiram area near kaikhali and I did not face the problem you mentioned even for one day What was your exact location is it just beside Airport area

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Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 1054 pm 1054 PM

Partha There are few towers surrounding Kaikhali near your area haldiramHaldiram cell info display is KENDRIYA VIHAR (ABC) which is working fine and I get its signal from Outside my home but inside its stength is NIL Only I get cell info KAMALAPUR(ABC) ampDASODRONE(ABC) with 1 bar from balcony with fluctuation every 1 minuteBut the tower with KAIKHALI(ABC) cell info is not working from last 10 days which is the nearest tower from my house which is situated at Main road of VIP

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Kaushik Roy December 26 2013 1119 pm 1119 PM

Finally BSNL cell info (KAIKHALI ABC) tower started working from tonight after almost 12 days

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Saurabh December 23 2013 127 pm 127 PM

Since they gave tender for expansion in North zone I hope that their service will get better in Haryana and 3G will become available by October but none of the things happened Instead their 2G network which was worst before gettingmore and more worst here The indoor signal in my area in whatever house you check is nil to 1 bar only Those living near the BTS also face call drops You canrsquot call without voice cracking The network is just getting to bottom andno one to take care I have BSNL SIM which I recharge only once in a year with Rs34 validity extension to keep it alive as I keep SIM to check service quality

Whenever you call customer care the IVR says ldquoYour extimated hold time is 35 minutes 27 secrdquo and always over it Their CC is complete dumb and people at CSC are just illiterate who has only one answer for all the question ldquoBhaiyeh toh upar waley log decide karenge tabhi upgrade hoga Ab tumhara signal nahi aata toh hum kya karerdquo Their quality is sucking to the bottom at 60shy70 places Their VLR data shows that not even 10 lakh out of 30 lakh subscribersusing it Now you can understand why

Thanks to the private companies like Vodafone and Idea and Airtel also who have ubiquitous network and even after having 3shy4 times of BSNL subscribers their network works like charm and 99 uptime Thanks to Idea for providing3G to city towns villages and everywhere I went it was there Today I donrsquot have a single contact which is of BSNL and those I have are ported out to AVoId only

Videocon has started expansion and now have more active customers than BSNL in Haryana and soon they will have mre than that of Tata and Reliance Their is a limit to stupidity and BSNLhad crossed it since it started The conditionhere is even worst then what it was in 2004 It seems that BSNL is handling 500 customers per tower here which is chocking network all the day Few weeks back their network kept dead for 3 days So those who are on bsnl are losingeverything

I hope they donrsquot launch 3G in towns as their 2G signal is 1 bar on 1800 MHz What it will be on 2100 MHz 3G bandhellip They should save money and never launch 3G in towns in Haryana A slap to BSNL face from me

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John Thomas December 23 2013 116 pm 116 PM

What ever the writer suggested will never been going to implement I am been very long investigating BSNL policies and methodsi found that bsnl is administered by very corrupted ones Inefficient officers are getting on the top The

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main reason why people donrsquot choose bsnl is thateven though if there is a tower nearby to ones homeit is hard to find signal inside their home Government still holds bsnl nothing for but to maintain a security level in communicationof strategic important ones

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Ramesh Darji December 23 2013 1140 am 1140 AM

Dear Sanjay I want address issue of tata docomo not BSNL BSNL is govt company and some can understand but what happen to TataIn gujarat they have 3G but surprisingly they stop expanding 3G coverage Worst ever they switch off many sites in rural areas and highways In gujarat late entrant Uninor and videocon even doing better than tataIts worst ever they offers and schemes Their offer is changing so fast that customer lost trust on themStill they are riding on photon+ in maharastra and mumbai but their time is now over They are not realising adoption of 3G and still their data package is much higherOn the other hand realince and other 3G operator providing much cheaper 3G 156 now for realince 3G 299 for 2GB for MTNL and others are offering goodReliance Joi will launch service in short period and I think BSNL and other private operator who is not much serious about customer choice will be finished

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jz December 23 2013 1126 am 1126 AM

bsnl is cheap and best but didnrsquot know how to encash it

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Vamsi December 30 2013 1009 am 1009 AM

Hi frnd hellipthx for the article and my view was BSNL has a robust network to serve india better than any private company but The main and only obstacle was their employs hellipthe higher authority should initiate necessary steps todeploy corporate style to bsnlhellipbecz we all know that working hours of bsnl employs are not up to the mark so make them(Employes) work and serve better

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rangarajan December 24 2013 308 pm 308 PM

sirBSNL has a huge work force to be reduced by VRS (VOL REmoval scheme) already i informed authority to work with 30000 to get profit but CMD is calm cos he is retiring in June 2014rangarajan

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A RAO December 24 2013 423 pm 423 PM

All private operators do business BSNL gives Services to public BSNL wants profit it can come with in a year profit by doing business like private opertorsBSNL moto is to give best possible services to public in every corner ofIndia and it is ready to give restore immediately the communication when disastrous rains floods etc occures then the private operators for example a Appreciation letter from Govt of India received for restoration communicationservices at Uttarkand in june 2013 when a big disastrous happened

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sanjay April 10 2014 216 pm 216 PM

good comments sir

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kalyankar December 29 2013 945 pm 945 PM

SIR GOOD COMMENTShelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip

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sand December 23 2013 1112 pm 1112 PM

chetan

My idea is that bsnl should have tailor made plans and also special offers for customers who make good amount of rechargesA gift would always make a consumer feel important and he would stick around

Postpaid is the greatest revenue generatorBring down the security deposits at par or lower than private firmsCouple it with the fair and transparent billing of bsnl and they will be instant hit

Have a greatly responsible cust care that responds

Cut down broadband prices now instead of doing it wen maybe 4g brings down tariffs and people have already migratedcustomer loyalty always has its own magic

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sand December 23 2013 1107 pm 1107 PM

Chetan

In my mail apart from the complaints i had mentioned these same things to the CMD as some ideasI dont know if he took any notice of that but since his office acted on the complaint i guess he took notice

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sand December 23 2013 1104 pm 1104 PM

chetan

I have been complaining for the last 2 yrs to fix the bsnlsupportFinally last month i decided to escalate matters furtherI sent my complaint to the CMD of BSNL with the kerala circle head in ccThis was my final attemptIt workedI got a mail back from CMD SECTTAlso complaints of mine were being called up and followed up by the circle head or someone in keralaIf you dont trust me i could put the screen shot of the reply i got hereI think all bsnlcustomers should try thisI even offered the CMD the recorded call with customer care which gave me a 53 min hold timeI think since we choose to vent our anger here and there an dnot take it up in the official way we get no replies or fixesIf every consumer facing the issue instead complains and follows it up and makes sure it gets heard then yes we candefinitly make changes

I ask every bsnl customer to do the same and then we will see the changesDont give up by porting or adjustGet ur voice heard

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k thirmal reddy December 23 2013 1036 pm 1036 PM

Here I should mention thatIf there is any PSU in India without itrsquos own responsible and accountable top managementthat is the one and only BSNLIt is a peculiar situation in BSNLEven after 13 years of its formation it still workslike a Govtdept Definitely there are a handful of top managers of impeccable integrity and concern for itwho can make things happen The best trained executives and prime assets and latest infra are the core strengths They should notbe underestimated The non performing assets to be made performing through innovative methods There are constraintsProfit making is not the ultimate visionbut Hope BSNL shall survive and come up with flags to enhance value inthe hands of customers and save the people of India from the clutches of private coSif Govt has the will to serve the people through BSNL

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b m b December 23 2013 1025 pm 1025 PM

UPA Govt should release all Dues pending from DOT some schemes to be announces like Ex MOS Paswanji schemes of Rs500connectionOfficialsofficers of GOVT should use BSNLHON MOC can look in bottle neck GSMnetworks needs of BSNL

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Vikas agarwal December 23 2013 956 pm 956 PM

I do not think now BSNL can compete with Private operatorsOne SDE of BSNL namely Sailash yadav of Faridabad earning black money and nobody is taking any action against himhe is working in tax section

So if condition like these continues and strict action if not taken then people will fed up from BSNl

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Darshan Malu December 23 2013 944 pm 944 PM

It should be published in newspapers media everywherehellipso that RK upadhya will know abt ithellipor your efforts going 2 b utter wastehellipplz possible mail this post to media mails like to TOI or NDTV or ET or anywhete possiblei amsure they will appreciate u r efforts and will publish themhellip

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Ducts December 23 2013 940 pm 940 PM

Nothing is going to improveIndia is a country where the top officials r oldhellipu can c our pmhellipeven with bsnl same thinghellipthat rk upadhay i think can even not operate his email id i think bcuz after sending so many email that man doesnt even have sense ofreplyinghellipuck u r company n sry not company actually u n ur corrupt teamhellipSaala samajhta nahi its nly our indiarsquos losshellipif u c ATampThellipDue 2 its QoS people dont even think to go for TshymobilehellipIndian government koh bhi samajtha nahi to appoint youngsters in such job by seeing what he actually knows n with gud marketting skillshellipWTF even after having pan india 3G lincense one would had taken advantage of it n make company to move forwardhellipRk upadhay u just take retirement u r mind age has no more ideas its time u r mind needs SANYAS

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Rishabh December 23 2013 1041 pm 1041 PM

+100000000

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Akhil Mohan December 23 2013 913 pm 913 PM

My experienceFor the last two weeks there is no internet in my 3G connection It connects but no data transfer takes place Registered a complaint with the no 9400000198 an waited for their call for 1 week but no one called me and today i received amessage saying your complaint has been closedHow will a company like this ever make profit If govt tries to bail out BSNL i may even try to go to court to prevent that because public dont need to pay for their wrong doings and inefficency

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derik December 23 2013 843 pm 843 PM

BSNL IS THE BEST IN KERALA AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE THE MARKET LEADER VERY SOONhelliphellipI LOVE BSNLhelliphellip

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LShobha December 23 2013 812 pm 812 PM

I would like to comment on corruption Eradicating corruption should be TOP DOWN approach and not BOTTOM UP approach Corruption cannot be cleansed from lineman to CMD but the other way around BSNL is a governmentcompany and obviously it will be a reflection of how our government is being run ndash scam ridden ndash Coalgate 2G Maharashtra dam scandalCommonwealth games scandal Robert Vadra Scandal mining scandal etc etc As the sayinggoes ndash ldquoYathah Raja Thathah PrajardquoBSNL has its share of scams within ndash awarding of contracts by top management to Boston Consulting Group appointing brand ambassadors to Ms Preity Zinta Deepika Padukone without any tangible result Perhaps the biggest ofthem all is the BSNL CDMA services Crores of public money invested without any revenueAs for the employees it is better to offer VRS to all the DOT recruited employees and hand over the organisation to the BSNL recruited youngsters and make them more accountableFinally BSNL should continue to exist in the larger interests of the countryrsquos security The government can not allow the Mittals Ambanis Tatas and Birlas to pocket crores of rupees money to gift aeroplanes to their wives and celebrateglitzy and glamorous wedding anniversaries and build Antilias with helicopter landing pads

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joseph joy christopher December 23 2013 747 pm 747 PM

BSNL Lags in1)proper plans2)no permanent tariff some plan came within 2 weekrsquos it will be removed eg 12rs roaming pack3)bad customer service4) even using gprs packs is not allowed in tn circle on black out days even with pack it is chargable

Prorsquos1)core network in all arearsquos

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SAHIL December 23 2013 703 pm 703 PM

BSNL CAN NEVER AND WILL NEVER IMPROVE OR CHANGE BECAUSE ITS RUN BY CORRUPT CRONIES OF PRIVATE OPERATORS AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS WHOSE ONLY AGENDA IS TO DESTROY BSNLAND BENEFIT PRIVATE OPERSTORS BSNL IS ALREADY ANOTHER AIR INDIA IN MAKING ULTIMATELY BSNL LOSSES WILL BE FUNDED FROM INDIAN CONSUMERS AND TAX PAYERS HARD EARNEDMONEY BUT AFTER 2014 ELECTIONS MODI WILL CLEAN UP THESE CORRUPT PEOPLE AND BSNL WILL IMPROVE

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Panditji December 23 2013 621 pm 621 PM

It is completely true that BSNL does not care its customers I surrendered a BSNL land line connection in Muzaffarpur Bihar only because of its employees After many request to its concern officials (even to higher official BSNLMuzaffarpur) no proper step was taken for a long period but every bishymonth i was served with a suitable bill and finally i unwillingly surrendered the connection This is what BSNL officials care its customers If this situation remainscontinued BSNL will never go in profit

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Satheesh December 23 2013 606 pm 606 PM

Myself is a BSNL employee I think the real problem lies with the TOP management Top level management is still DOT staff and deputation to BSNL Most of them are least bothered about the future of the Company and they are onlyburocrats and no professionalism which is the need of the hour They are not at all accountable for their activities and not ready to accept the feedback given by other stake holders such as employees franchisees etc Only proffessionalmanagement can rescue the organisation

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js December 23 2013 833 pm 833 PM

The pathetic state of the BSNL is purely because of the very bad attitude of the employees Employees are only interested in salary hike for every pay commission and spend least time in office If you want to see the attitude of theemployees you should go to an exchange or customer care center As a BSNL employee did you recommend any of your family or relatives to use BSNL product Do you know all details of BSNL products provided in your circleFirst BSNL employee should confidently market the product with their friends and relatives and they are the prime source of brand building They will blame BSNL then how they will be able to build the brand 2lakhs employeesif they try their best then BSNL can be profitable within 6months Customers need BSNL service but if BSNL can reach customers then people will always opt for it BSNL has the best tariff plans best coverage and no hiddencharges So only attitude of the employees should change not higher officials It is just an excuse to runaway from responsibilities by blaming higher officials This is what always BSNL employees union do

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Akhil Mohan December 23 2013 915 pm 915 PM

No body wants BSNL to improve Please shutdownhellip

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js December 24 2013 954 am 954 AM

AkhilBefore commenting on this you should know India first 90 percentage of mobile users do not want 3G or 4G or any data use They use mobile only to contact near and dear ones BSNL is the only service provider whoprovided service in rural areas small panchayats naxal affected areas and even Jammu and Kashmir where our soldiers are totally depending on BSNL network to contact their near and dear ones Pvt providers only look atprofit and even betray nation for the sake of money All defence orgs can only depend on BSNL and not any other service provider In UK customers did an agitation against vodafone on not paying the tax But in Indiacustomers will get more attracted by just the brand name and since it is a foreign operator and even though they do all tax frauds

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SS December 24 2013 1131 am 1131 AM

I still believe that vodafone tax case is completely non sense When vodafone acquired hutch there was no such law to tax transactions between companies incorporated outside india (the same supreme court ruled)Now they changed law to extract money by hook or by crook Is this a way

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krishna December 23 2013 516 pm 516 PM

Sometimes the strength becomes weakness The same is happening in BSNL ie Excess staff (Comparing with Private operators) is one of the reason for loss The management should take some bold decisions like giving VRSminimising retirement age from 60 to 58 (as major CPSU had the retirement age as 58)

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Chandra Sekhar Mandal December 23 2013 430 pm 430 PM

Previously i was using BSNL because it was giving 8 GB 2G [although i was getting 3G speed every time i recharged on my sim] data for just Rs219 for 30 days But after they unified 2G and 3G packs i did no recharge on that BSNL

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sim and its validity is also over I was a BSNL customer just because data purposeBSNL GO TO HELLhellip

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id December 23 2013 826 pm 826 PM

still its cheaper than others tariff

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deril December 23 2013 851 pm 851 PM

poor

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BatMAn December 23 2013 430 pm 430 PM

The funniest thing i have noticed isWhen ever Electricity in my area is down the same timethe BSNL network signal will be zero after a few minutes signal will be restored(Even if Electricity is Restored or not)i think they are have to start the DG Manuallyor No proper UPShellipif we are in a call the call will be doped Bsnl Karnataka Circle

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Rama December 23 2013 332 pm 332 PM

SaurabhHow did you know that BSNL has given out contract to expand netwrok in north indiaif you have any other source than tt and economic times would you please share it

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SS December 23 2013 322 pm 322 PM

This isnrsquot a new news This was expected and it happened Thanks to the worst management of bsnl In my circle up east there are fairly large no Of customers but ironically only 42 are active as per trairsquos report On the other handvodafone has 9970 active users and its 2g services are superior among all here My father uses bsnl only for 151shy400 mins tariff and would surely dump it if they ditch that scheme

Data services are worst than hell in bsnl For 20 days of month 2g data remains down and 3g goes down many times a day

Interconnectivity problems in bsnl are not uncommon Last time they blocked calls to vodafone for 2 months and only bsnl customers suffered I use airtel in delhi and its awesome in quality of service No single issue to complain aboutIn up east i use idea because of its robust 3g network all over the state Bsnl must to learn from them

But bsnl in far more superior than tata docomo reliance gsm aircel Lets hope that they improve

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Adil December 23 2013 950 pm 950 PM

ss i always use to agree to you but this time in climax i deny to your comment bsnl is worst than all operator whether it is docomo aircel reliance in fact uninor is far better than bsnlhellipthat is why uninor is making positive cashflow where as bsnl dying

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Aam Admi December 23 2013 221 pm 221 PM

ldquo8 Shut down loss making telephone exchanges or the ones which bring less revenue ndash many people opt for landline just due to broadband benefits through such exchanges (mainly rural) 3G data cards at special prices could beencouraged at such placesrdquo

As you already know 3G data cards are not a substitute to wired broadband I pay around 1000 INR for a broadband connection while living in a rural area Irsquom ready to pay more if BSNL can offer a 1 Mbps unlimited without FUPplan I keep my line only for broadband(a lot of people)

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Chethan S December 23 2013 713 pm 713 PM

Though I enjoy good quality Beam Fiber connection here in Hyderabad my familyrsquos situation is like yours back in my home town Our home falls in a BSNL Rural exchangersquos limits There particularly in the rainy season due tothunderstorms BSNL officials power off the telephone exchange during nights and even during weekends as an anticipatory measure depriving us of broadband connectivity Having a night unlimited connection we find itextremely the difficult to use internet within data usage limits As you said 3G data card is certainly not an alternative to wired broadband but if service is not good 3G at special rates would be welcome

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Tharun George December 23 2013 153 pm 153 PM

The only reason I am on BSNL is for cheap 3G and good 2G coverage All other things of BSNL are worst Call rates are not that low 2G internet is pathetic cannot even open google It takes 45min to get connected to customer careNetwork busy low quality sound

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prithvi December 23 2013 336 pm 336 PM

Exactly +1 BSNL

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Sugu December 23 2013 835 pm 835 PM

Tharun Well thatrsquos really surprising coz I have never faced such situation once when i had a problem ie Rs5 being deducted every week for no reason I went to their Thirunakkara Office and complained 2 days later Ireceived an SMS saying that my issue had been solved and even refunded me About the tariff in my knowledge it is providing cheapest base tariff among the operators i know I may be wrong and about 2G speed i always geta speed above 10kBshere is my speed test 2G httpwwwspeedtestnetmyshyresulta674883594

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Tharun George December 24 2013 827 am 827 AM

BSNL never deducted nay of my money As far as tariff go it is as high as private Most plans are 15ps and only mithram plan has 13ps STV are also costly

10KBs is very very low Your ping is very bad PING 903 ms Try opening gmail with it I have tested all operators 2G speed in Kerala Here are the resultDocomoshy 236kbpsAircelshy 225kbps (Shutdown)Relianceshy 225kbpsIdea ndash 170kbpsVodafone ndash 140kbpsAirtel ndash 100kbpsBSNL ndash 100kbps

For 3G BSNL has speed between 1shy2mbps But Idea 3G gives 6mbps at most time I use Reliance for 2G internet and calling Rs 74 STV gives 1p2sec for 6 months Lowest tariff in India

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Tharun George December 24 2013 830 am 830 AM

By the way you went to Kottayam office to get Rs 5 back Once I had gone there to pay Rs 4 bill for landline They laughed at me and asked how much Bus fare I spend to get there

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sugu December 24 2013 220 pm 220 PM

I said above 10kBs And it deducted Rs5 for 4 weeks I did not say anything about the refund but still they did and about 3G after 1030 I always get only about 50shy70kBs at home But at the morning it flies of to500shy700kBs when I went to my friendrsquos home at kumaranellor therersquos even H+ and I downloaded 270MB under 8 minuteshellipBus fare lol Vadavathoor to Old bus standhellip 6rshellip lolhellipBTW only 4rs landline what was your plan I hardly use tye landline the connection is only to avail broadband

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Tharun George December 24 2013 700 pm 700 PM

Vadavathoor We are so close yet meet online I am here just before Manarcad I most signal from Vadavathoor tower

I used to pay for 1 year for landline + broadband Some times exceed and they send Rs 2 or Rs 4 bills by postal Postage itself is Rs 4 for them

Disconnected BSNL broadband and landline this month I have Asianet broadband and Relaince 2G If you are using BSNL Broadband better switch to Asianet 4mbps broadband plans

I used to get 3G signal from BSNL tower at vadavathoor But 2 months ago BSNL added 3G to Rubber Board tower BTW I get signal for all private operators from Vadavathoor Does Docomo have tower atVadavathoor I am complaining for past 5 years to them about no coverage

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Sugu December 25 2013 527 pm 527 PM

Ah I think not Actually where does Docomo have towers My home is 2KM away from Thirunakkara Mostly I walk By the time I reach home BSNL will have switched through 3Towers (all 3G)while Docomo still remains connected to Thirunakkara I just get 1bar of range here and if I go to the hall no coverage Even when I went to my friends house 5km away its the same towerhellipIf you use android then download Network Signal Info it gives all details about that tower

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Riju VV December 23 2013 1029 pm 1029 PM

Bsnl kerala already introduced new customer care 9400000198No need to wait just call and enter your number They will call you back

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Tharun George December 24 2013 828 am 828 AM

You have to wait for there call back Which will take 30min ndash 1 hour

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Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 832 pm 832 PM

They never called me back for my complaint

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Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 830 pm 830 PM

Idea is now giving 1GB data for Rs 123 as a special offer

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Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 144 pm 144 PM

BSNL network is dead in Kaikhali near Kolkata Airport Area for last 10 daysIt seems that BSNL network is dead in so many places of Kolkata and they are not aware of BSNL fault and it forces people to use non BSNL SIMs

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Partha December 23 2013 842 pm 842 PM

Kaushik I live in Haldiram area near kaikhali and I did not face the problem you mentioned even for one day What was your exact location is it just beside Airport area

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Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 1054 pm 1054 PM

Partha There are few towers surrounding Kaikhali near your area haldiramHaldiram cell info display is KENDRIYA VIHAR (ABC) which is working fine and I get its signal from Outside my home but inside its stength is NIL Only I get cell info KAMALAPUR(ABC) ampDASODRONE(ABC) with 1 bar from balcony with fluctuation every 1 minuteBut the tower with KAIKHALI(ABC) cell info is not working from last 10 days which is the nearest tower from my house which is situated at Main road of VIP

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Kaushik Roy December 26 2013 1119 pm 1119 PM

Finally BSNL cell info (KAIKHALI ABC) tower started working from tonight after almost 12 days

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Saurabh December 23 2013 127 pm 127 PM

Since they gave tender for expansion in North zone I hope that their service will get better in Haryana and 3G will become available by October but none of the things happened Instead their 2G network which was worst before gettingmore and more worst here The indoor signal in my area in whatever house you check is nil to 1 bar only Those living near the BTS also face call drops You canrsquot call without voice cracking The network is just getting to bottom andno one to take care I have BSNL SIM which I recharge only once in a year with Rs34 validity extension to keep it alive as I keep SIM to check service quality

Whenever you call customer care the IVR says ldquoYour extimated hold time is 35 minutes 27 secrdquo and always over it Their CC is complete dumb and people at CSC are just illiterate who has only one answer for all the question ldquoBhaiyeh toh upar waley log decide karenge tabhi upgrade hoga Ab tumhara signal nahi aata toh hum kya karerdquo Their quality is sucking to the bottom at 60shy70 places Their VLR data shows that not even 10 lakh out of 30 lakh subscribersusing it Now you can understand why

Thanks to the private companies like Vodafone and Idea and Airtel also who have ubiquitous network and even after having 3shy4 times of BSNL subscribers their network works like charm and 99 uptime Thanks to Idea for providing3G to city towns villages and everywhere I went it was there Today I donrsquot have a single contact which is of BSNL and those I have are ported out to AVoId only

Videocon has started expansion and now have more active customers than BSNL in Haryana and soon they will have mre than that of Tata and Reliance Their is a limit to stupidity and BSNLhad crossed it since it started The conditionhere is even worst then what it was in 2004 It seems that BSNL is handling 500 customers per tower here which is chocking network all the day Few weeks back their network kept dead for 3 days So those who are on bsnl are losingeverything

I hope they donrsquot launch 3G in towns as their 2G signal is 1 bar on 1800 MHz What it will be on 2100 MHz 3G bandhellip They should save money and never launch 3G in towns in Haryana A slap to BSNL face from me

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John Thomas December 23 2013 116 pm 116 PM

What ever the writer suggested will never been going to implement I am been very long investigating BSNL policies and methodsi found that bsnl is administered by very corrupted ones Inefficient officers are getting on the top The

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main reason why people donrsquot choose bsnl is thateven though if there is a tower nearby to ones homeit is hard to find signal inside their home Government still holds bsnl nothing for but to maintain a security level in communicationof strategic important ones

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Ramesh Darji December 23 2013 1140 am 1140 AM

Dear Sanjay I want address issue of tata docomo not BSNL BSNL is govt company and some can understand but what happen to TataIn gujarat they have 3G but surprisingly they stop expanding 3G coverage Worst ever they switch off many sites in rural areas and highways In gujarat late entrant Uninor and videocon even doing better than tataIts worst ever they offers and schemes Their offer is changing so fast that customer lost trust on themStill they are riding on photon+ in maharastra and mumbai but their time is now over They are not realising adoption of 3G and still their data package is much higherOn the other hand realince and other 3G operator providing much cheaper 3G 156 now for realince 3G 299 for 2GB for MTNL and others are offering goodReliance Joi will launch service in short period and I think BSNL and other private operator who is not much serious about customer choice will be finished

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jz December 23 2013 1126 am 1126 AM

bsnl is cheap and best but didnrsquot know how to encash it

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Vamsi December 30 2013 1009 am 1009 AM

Hi frnd hellipthx for the article and my view was BSNL has a robust network to serve india better than any private company but The main and only obstacle was their employs hellipthe higher authority should initiate necessary steps todeploy corporate style to bsnlhellipbecz we all know that working hours of bsnl employs are not up to the mark so make them(Employes) work and serve better

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Akhil Mohan December 23 2013 913 pm 913 PM

My experienceFor the last two weeks there is no internet in my 3G connection It connects but no data transfer takes place Registered a complaint with the no 9400000198 an waited for their call for 1 week but no one called me and today i received amessage saying your complaint has been closedHow will a company like this ever make profit If govt tries to bail out BSNL i may even try to go to court to prevent that because public dont need to pay for their wrong doings and inefficency

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derik December 23 2013 843 pm 843 PM

BSNL IS THE BEST IN KERALA AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE THE MARKET LEADER VERY SOONhelliphellipI LOVE BSNLhelliphellip

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LShobha December 23 2013 812 pm 812 PM

I would like to comment on corruption Eradicating corruption should be TOP DOWN approach and not BOTTOM UP approach Corruption cannot be cleansed from lineman to CMD but the other way around BSNL is a governmentcompany and obviously it will be a reflection of how our government is being run ndash scam ridden ndash Coalgate 2G Maharashtra dam scandalCommonwealth games scandal Robert Vadra Scandal mining scandal etc etc As the sayinggoes ndash ldquoYathah Raja Thathah PrajardquoBSNL has its share of scams within ndash awarding of contracts by top management to Boston Consulting Group appointing brand ambassadors to Ms Preity Zinta Deepika Padukone without any tangible result Perhaps the biggest ofthem all is the BSNL CDMA services Crores of public money invested without any revenueAs for the employees it is better to offer VRS to all the DOT recruited employees and hand over the organisation to the BSNL recruited youngsters and make them more accountableFinally BSNL should continue to exist in the larger interests of the countryrsquos security The government can not allow the Mittals Ambanis Tatas and Birlas to pocket crores of rupees money to gift aeroplanes to their wives and celebrateglitzy and glamorous wedding anniversaries and build Antilias with helicopter landing pads

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joseph joy christopher December 23 2013 747 pm 747 PM

BSNL Lags in1)proper plans2)no permanent tariff some plan came within 2 weekrsquos it will be removed eg 12rs roaming pack3)bad customer service4) even using gprs packs is not allowed in tn circle on black out days even with pack it is chargable

Prorsquos1)core network in all arearsquos

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SAHIL December 23 2013 703 pm 703 PM

BSNL CAN NEVER AND WILL NEVER IMPROVE OR CHANGE BECAUSE ITS RUN BY CORRUPT CRONIES OF PRIVATE OPERATORS AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS WHOSE ONLY AGENDA IS TO DESTROY BSNLAND BENEFIT PRIVATE OPERSTORS BSNL IS ALREADY ANOTHER AIR INDIA IN MAKING ULTIMATELY BSNL LOSSES WILL BE FUNDED FROM INDIAN CONSUMERS AND TAX PAYERS HARD EARNEDMONEY BUT AFTER 2014 ELECTIONS MODI WILL CLEAN UP THESE CORRUPT PEOPLE AND BSNL WILL IMPROVE

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Panditji December 23 2013 621 pm 621 PM

It is completely true that BSNL does not care its customers I surrendered a BSNL land line connection in Muzaffarpur Bihar only because of its employees After many request to its concern officials (even to higher official BSNLMuzaffarpur) no proper step was taken for a long period but every bishymonth i was served with a suitable bill and finally i unwillingly surrendered the connection This is what BSNL officials care its customers If this situation remainscontinued BSNL will never go in profit

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Satheesh December 23 2013 606 pm 606 PM

Myself is a BSNL employee I think the real problem lies with the TOP management Top level management is still DOT staff and deputation to BSNL Most of them are least bothered about the future of the Company and they are onlyburocrats and no professionalism which is the need of the hour They are not at all accountable for their activities and not ready to accept the feedback given by other stake holders such as employees franchisees etc Only proffessionalmanagement can rescue the organisation

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js December 23 2013 833 pm 833 PM

The pathetic state of the BSNL is purely because of the very bad attitude of the employees Employees are only interested in salary hike for every pay commission and spend least time in office If you want to see the attitude of theemployees you should go to an exchange or customer care center As a BSNL employee did you recommend any of your family or relatives to use BSNL product Do you know all details of BSNL products provided in your circleFirst BSNL employee should confidently market the product with their friends and relatives and they are the prime source of brand building They will blame BSNL then how they will be able to build the brand 2lakhs employeesif they try their best then BSNL can be profitable within 6months Customers need BSNL service but if BSNL can reach customers then people will always opt for it BSNL has the best tariff plans best coverage and no hiddencharges So only attitude of the employees should change not higher officials It is just an excuse to runaway from responsibilities by blaming higher officials This is what always BSNL employees union do

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Akhil Mohan December 23 2013 915 pm 915 PM

No body wants BSNL to improve Please shutdownhellip

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js December 24 2013 954 am 954 AM

AkhilBefore commenting on this you should know India first 90 percentage of mobile users do not want 3G or 4G or any data use They use mobile only to contact near and dear ones BSNL is the only service provider whoprovided service in rural areas small panchayats naxal affected areas and even Jammu and Kashmir where our soldiers are totally depending on BSNL network to contact their near and dear ones Pvt providers only look atprofit and even betray nation for the sake of money All defence orgs can only depend on BSNL and not any other service provider In UK customers did an agitation against vodafone on not paying the tax But in Indiacustomers will get more attracted by just the brand name and since it is a foreign operator and even though they do all tax frauds

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SS December 24 2013 1131 am 1131 AM

I still believe that vodafone tax case is completely non sense When vodafone acquired hutch there was no such law to tax transactions between companies incorporated outside india (the same supreme court ruled)Now they changed law to extract money by hook or by crook Is this a way

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krishna December 23 2013 516 pm 516 PM

Sometimes the strength becomes weakness The same is happening in BSNL ie Excess staff (Comparing with Private operators) is one of the reason for loss The management should take some bold decisions like giving VRSminimising retirement age from 60 to 58 (as major CPSU had the retirement age as 58)

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Chandra Sekhar Mandal December 23 2013 430 pm 430 PM

Previously i was using BSNL because it was giving 8 GB 2G [although i was getting 3G speed every time i recharged on my sim] data for just Rs219 for 30 days But after they unified 2G and 3G packs i did no recharge on that BSNL

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sim and its validity is also over I was a BSNL customer just because data purposeBSNL GO TO HELLhellip

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id December 23 2013 826 pm 826 PM

still its cheaper than others tariff

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deril December 23 2013 851 pm 851 PM

poor

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BatMAn December 23 2013 430 pm 430 PM

The funniest thing i have noticed isWhen ever Electricity in my area is down the same timethe BSNL network signal will be zero after a few minutes signal will be restored(Even if Electricity is Restored or not)i think they are have to start the DG Manuallyor No proper UPShellipif we are in a call the call will be doped Bsnl Karnataka Circle

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Rama December 23 2013 332 pm 332 PM

SaurabhHow did you know that BSNL has given out contract to expand netwrok in north indiaif you have any other source than tt and economic times would you please share it

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SS December 23 2013 322 pm 322 PM

This isnrsquot a new news This was expected and it happened Thanks to the worst management of bsnl In my circle up east there are fairly large no Of customers but ironically only 42 are active as per trairsquos report On the other handvodafone has 9970 active users and its 2g services are superior among all here My father uses bsnl only for 151shy400 mins tariff and would surely dump it if they ditch that scheme

Data services are worst than hell in bsnl For 20 days of month 2g data remains down and 3g goes down many times a day

Interconnectivity problems in bsnl are not uncommon Last time they blocked calls to vodafone for 2 months and only bsnl customers suffered I use airtel in delhi and its awesome in quality of service No single issue to complain aboutIn up east i use idea because of its robust 3g network all over the state Bsnl must to learn from them

But bsnl in far more superior than tata docomo reliance gsm aircel Lets hope that they improve

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Adil December 23 2013 950 pm 950 PM

ss i always use to agree to you but this time in climax i deny to your comment bsnl is worst than all operator whether it is docomo aircel reliance in fact uninor is far better than bsnlhellipthat is why uninor is making positive cashflow where as bsnl dying

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Aam Admi December 23 2013 221 pm 221 PM

ldquo8 Shut down loss making telephone exchanges or the ones which bring less revenue ndash many people opt for landline just due to broadband benefits through such exchanges (mainly rural) 3G data cards at special prices could beencouraged at such placesrdquo

As you already know 3G data cards are not a substitute to wired broadband I pay around 1000 INR for a broadband connection while living in a rural area Irsquom ready to pay more if BSNL can offer a 1 Mbps unlimited without FUPplan I keep my line only for broadband(a lot of people)

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Chethan S December 23 2013 713 pm 713 PM

Though I enjoy good quality Beam Fiber connection here in Hyderabad my familyrsquos situation is like yours back in my home town Our home falls in a BSNL Rural exchangersquos limits There particularly in the rainy season due tothunderstorms BSNL officials power off the telephone exchange during nights and even during weekends as an anticipatory measure depriving us of broadband connectivity Having a night unlimited connection we find itextremely the difficult to use internet within data usage limits As you said 3G data card is certainly not an alternative to wired broadband but if service is not good 3G at special rates would be welcome

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Tharun George December 23 2013 153 pm 153 PM

The only reason I am on BSNL is for cheap 3G and good 2G coverage All other things of BSNL are worst Call rates are not that low 2G internet is pathetic cannot even open google It takes 45min to get connected to customer careNetwork busy low quality sound

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prithvi December 23 2013 336 pm 336 PM

Exactly +1 BSNL

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Sugu December 23 2013 835 pm 835 PM

Tharun Well thatrsquos really surprising coz I have never faced such situation once when i had a problem ie Rs5 being deducted every week for no reason I went to their Thirunakkara Office and complained 2 days later Ireceived an SMS saying that my issue had been solved and even refunded me About the tariff in my knowledge it is providing cheapest base tariff among the operators i know I may be wrong and about 2G speed i always geta speed above 10kBshere is my speed test 2G httpwwwspeedtestnetmyshyresulta674883594

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Tharun George December 24 2013 827 am 827 AM

BSNL never deducted nay of my money As far as tariff go it is as high as private Most plans are 15ps and only mithram plan has 13ps STV are also costly

10KBs is very very low Your ping is very bad PING 903 ms Try opening gmail with it I have tested all operators 2G speed in Kerala Here are the resultDocomoshy 236kbpsAircelshy 225kbps (Shutdown)Relianceshy 225kbpsIdea ndash 170kbpsVodafone ndash 140kbpsAirtel ndash 100kbpsBSNL ndash 100kbps

For 3G BSNL has speed between 1shy2mbps But Idea 3G gives 6mbps at most time I use Reliance for 2G internet and calling Rs 74 STV gives 1p2sec for 6 months Lowest tariff in India

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Tharun George December 24 2013 830 am 830 AM

By the way you went to Kottayam office to get Rs 5 back Once I had gone there to pay Rs 4 bill for landline They laughed at me and asked how much Bus fare I spend to get there

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sugu December 24 2013 220 pm 220 PM

I said above 10kBs And it deducted Rs5 for 4 weeks I did not say anything about the refund but still they did and about 3G after 1030 I always get only about 50shy70kBs at home But at the morning it flies of to500shy700kBs when I went to my friendrsquos home at kumaranellor therersquos even H+ and I downloaded 270MB under 8 minuteshellipBus fare lol Vadavathoor to Old bus standhellip 6rshellip lolhellipBTW only 4rs landline what was your plan I hardly use tye landline the connection is only to avail broadband

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Tharun George December 24 2013 700 pm 700 PM

Vadavathoor We are so close yet meet online I am here just before Manarcad I most signal from Vadavathoor tower

I used to pay for 1 year for landline + broadband Some times exceed and they send Rs 2 or Rs 4 bills by postal Postage itself is Rs 4 for them

Disconnected BSNL broadband and landline this month I have Asianet broadband and Relaince 2G If you are using BSNL Broadband better switch to Asianet 4mbps broadband plans

I used to get 3G signal from BSNL tower at vadavathoor But 2 months ago BSNL added 3G to Rubber Board tower BTW I get signal for all private operators from Vadavathoor Does Docomo have tower atVadavathoor I am complaining for past 5 years to them about no coverage

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Sugu December 25 2013 527 pm 527 PM

Ah I think not Actually where does Docomo have towers My home is 2KM away from Thirunakkara Mostly I walk By the time I reach home BSNL will have switched through 3Towers (all 3G)while Docomo still remains connected to Thirunakkara I just get 1bar of range here and if I go to the hall no coverage Even when I went to my friends house 5km away its the same towerhellipIf you use android then download Network Signal Info it gives all details about that tower

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Riju VV December 23 2013 1029 pm 1029 PM

Bsnl kerala already introduced new customer care 9400000198No need to wait just call and enter your number They will call you back

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Tharun George December 24 2013 828 am 828 AM

You have to wait for there call back Which will take 30min ndash 1 hour

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Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 832 pm 832 PM

They never called me back for my complaint

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Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 830 pm 830 PM

Idea is now giving 1GB data for Rs 123 as a special offer

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Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 144 pm 144 PM

BSNL network is dead in Kaikhali near Kolkata Airport Area for last 10 daysIt seems that BSNL network is dead in so many places of Kolkata and they are not aware of BSNL fault and it forces people to use non BSNL SIMs

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Partha December 23 2013 842 pm 842 PM

Kaushik I live in Haldiram area near kaikhali and I did not face the problem you mentioned even for one day What was your exact location is it just beside Airport area

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Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 1054 pm 1054 PM

Partha There are few towers surrounding Kaikhali near your area haldiramHaldiram cell info display is KENDRIYA VIHAR (ABC) which is working fine and I get its signal from Outside my home but inside its stength is NIL Only I get cell info KAMALAPUR(ABC) ampDASODRONE(ABC) with 1 bar from balcony with fluctuation every 1 minuteBut the tower with KAIKHALI(ABC) cell info is not working from last 10 days which is the nearest tower from my house which is situated at Main road of VIP

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Kaushik Roy December 26 2013 1119 pm 1119 PM

Finally BSNL cell info (KAIKHALI ABC) tower started working from tonight after almost 12 days

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Saurabh December 23 2013 127 pm 127 PM

Since they gave tender for expansion in North zone I hope that their service will get better in Haryana and 3G will become available by October but none of the things happened Instead their 2G network which was worst before gettingmore and more worst here The indoor signal in my area in whatever house you check is nil to 1 bar only Those living near the BTS also face call drops You canrsquot call without voice cracking The network is just getting to bottom andno one to take care I have BSNL SIM which I recharge only once in a year with Rs34 validity extension to keep it alive as I keep SIM to check service quality

Whenever you call customer care the IVR says ldquoYour extimated hold time is 35 minutes 27 secrdquo and always over it Their CC is complete dumb and people at CSC are just illiterate who has only one answer for all the question ldquoBhaiyeh toh upar waley log decide karenge tabhi upgrade hoga Ab tumhara signal nahi aata toh hum kya karerdquo Their quality is sucking to the bottom at 60shy70 places Their VLR data shows that not even 10 lakh out of 30 lakh subscribersusing it Now you can understand why

Thanks to the private companies like Vodafone and Idea and Airtel also who have ubiquitous network and even after having 3shy4 times of BSNL subscribers their network works like charm and 99 uptime Thanks to Idea for providing3G to city towns villages and everywhere I went it was there Today I donrsquot have a single contact which is of BSNL and those I have are ported out to AVoId only

Videocon has started expansion and now have more active customers than BSNL in Haryana and soon they will have mre than that of Tata and Reliance Their is a limit to stupidity and BSNLhad crossed it since it started The conditionhere is even worst then what it was in 2004 It seems that BSNL is handling 500 customers per tower here which is chocking network all the day Few weeks back their network kept dead for 3 days So those who are on bsnl are losingeverything

I hope they donrsquot launch 3G in towns as their 2G signal is 1 bar on 1800 MHz What it will be on 2100 MHz 3G bandhellip They should save money and never launch 3G in towns in Haryana A slap to BSNL face from me

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John Thomas December 23 2013 116 pm 116 PM

What ever the writer suggested will never been going to implement I am been very long investigating BSNL policies and methodsi found that bsnl is administered by very corrupted ones Inefficient officers are getting on the top The

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main reason why people donrsquot choose bsnl is thateven though if there is a tower nearby to ones homeit is hard to find signal inside their home Government still holds bsnl nothing for but to maintain a security level in communicationof strategic important ones

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Ramesh Darji December 23 2013 1140 am 1140 AM

Dear Sanjay I want address issue of tata docomo not BSNL BSNL is govt company and some can understand but what happen to TataIn gujarat they have 3G but surprisingly they stop expanding 3G coverage Worst ever they switch off many sites in rural areas and highways In gujarat late entrant Uninor and videocon even doing better than tataIts worst ever they offers and schemes Their offer is changing so fast that customer lost trust on themStill they are riding on photon+ in maharastra and mumbai but their time is now over They are not realising adoption of 3G and still their data package is much higherOn the other hand realince and other 3G operator providing much cheaper 3G 156 now for realince 3G 299 for 2GB for MTNL and others are offering goodReliance Joi will launch service in short period and I think BSNL and other private operator who is not much serious about customer choice will be finished

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jz December 23 2013 1126 am 1126 AM

bsnl is cheap and best but didnrsquot know how to encash it

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Vamsi December 30 2013 1009 am 1009 AM

Hi frnd hellipthx for the article and my view was BSNL has a robust network to serve india better than any private company but The main and only obstacle was their employs hellipthe higher authority should initiate necessary steps todeploy corporate style to bsnlhellipbecz we all know that working hours of bsnl employs are not up to the mark so make them(Employes) work and serve better

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sim and its validity is also over I was a BSNL customer just because data purposeBSNL GO TO HELLhellip

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id December 23 2013 826 pm 826 PM

still its cheaper than others tariff

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deril December 23 2013 851 pm 851 PM

poor

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BatMAn December 23 2013 430 pm 430 PM

The funniest thing i have noticed isWhen ever Electricity in my area is down the same timethe BSNL network signal will be zero after a few minutes signal will be restored(Even if Electricity is Restored or not)i think they are have to start the DG Manuallyor No proper UPShellipif we are in a call the call will be doped Bsnl Karnataka Circle

Reply Link

Rama December 23 2013 332 pm 332 PM

SaurabhHow did you know that BSNL has given out contract to expand netwrok in north indiaif you have any other source than tt and economic times would you please share it

Reply Link

SS December 23 2013 322 pm 322 PM

This isnrsquot a new news This was expected and it happened Thanks to the worst management of bsnl In my circle up east there are fairly large no Of customers but ironically only 42 are active as per trairsquos report On the other handvodafone has 9970 active users and its 2g services are superior among all here My father uses bsnl only for 151shy400 mins tariff and would surely dump it if they ditch that scheme

Data services are worst than hell in bsnl For 20 days of month 2g data remains down and 3g goes down many times a day

Interconnectivity problems in bsnl are not uncommon Last time they blocked calls to vodafone for 2 months and only bsnl customers suffered I use airtel in delhi and its awesome in quality of service No single issue to complain aboutIn up east i use idea because of its robust 3g network all over the state Bsnl must to learn from them

But bsnl in far more superior than tata docomo reliance gsm aircel Lets hope that they improve

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Adil December 23 2013 950 pm 950 PM

ss i always use to agree to you but this time in climax i deny to your comment bsnl is worst than all operator whether it is docomo aircel reliance in fact uninor is far better than bsnlhellipthat is why uninor is making positive cashflow where as bsnl dying

Reply Link

Aam Admi December 23 2013 221 pm 221 PM

ldquo8 Shut down loss making telephone exchanges or the ones which bring less revenue ndash many people opt for landline just due to broadband benefits through such exchanges (mainly rural) 3G data cards at special prices could beencouraged at such placesrdquo

As you already know 3G data cards are not a substitute to wired broadband I pay around 1000 INR for a broadband connection while living in a rural area Irsquom ready to pay more if BSNL can offer a 1 Mbps unlimited without FUPplan I keep my line only for broadband(a lot of people)

Reply Link

Chethan S December 23 2013 713 pm 713 PM

Though I enjoy good quality Beam Fiber connection here in Hyderabad my familyrsquos situation is like yours back in my home town Our home falls in a BSNL Rural exchangersquos limits There particularly in the rainy season due tothunderstorms BSNL officials power off the telephone exchange during nights and even during weekends as an anticipatory measure depriving us of broadband connectivity Having a night unlimited connection we find itextremely the difficult to use internet within data usage limits As you said 3G data card is certainly not an alternative to wired broadband but if service is not good 3G at special rates would be welcome

Reply Link

Tharun George December 23 2013 153 pm 153 PM

The only reason I am on BSNL is for cheap 3G and good 2G coverage All other things of BSNL are worst Call rates are not that low 2G internet is pathetic cannot even open google It takes 45min to get connected to customer careNetwork busy low quality sound

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prithvi December 23 2013 336 pm 336 PM

Exactly +1 BSNL

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Sugu December 23 2013 835 pm 835 PM

Tharun Well thatrsquos really surprising coz I have never faced such situation once when i had a problem ie Rs5 being deducted every week for no reason I went to their Thirunakkara Office and complained 2 days later Ireceived an SMS saying that my issue had been solved and even refunded me About the tariff in my knowledge it is providing cheapest base tariff among the operators i know I may be wrong and about 2G speed i always geta speed above 10kBshere is my speed test 2G httpwwwspeedtestnetmyshyresulta674883594

Reply Link

Tharun George December 24 2013 827 am 827 AM

BSNL never deducted nay of my money As far as tariff go it is as high as private Most plans are 15ps and only mithram plan has 13ps STV are also costly

10KBs is very very low Your ping is very bad PING 903 ms Try opening gmail with it I have tested all operators 2G speed in Kerala Here are the resultDocomoshy 236kbpsAircelshy 225kbps (Shutdown)Relianceshy 225kbpsIdea ndash 170kbpsVodafone ndash 140kbpsAirtel ndash 100kbpsBSNL ndash 100kbps

For 3G BSNL has speed between 1shy2mbps But Idea 3G gives 6mbps at most time I use Reliance for 2G internet and calling Rs 74 STV gives 1p2sec for 6 months Lowest tariff in India

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Tharun George December 24 2013 830 am 830 AM

By the way you went to Kottayam office to get Rs 5 back Once I had gone there to pay Rs 4 bill for landline They laughed at me and asked how much Bus fare I spend to get there

Reply Link

sugu December 24 2013 220 pm 220 PM

I said above 10kBs And it deducted Rs5 for 4 weeks I did not say anything about the refund but still they did and about 3G after 1030 I always get only about 50shy70kBs at home But at the morning it flies of to500shy700kBs when I went to my friendrsquos home at kumaranellor therersquos even H+ and I downloaded 270MB under 8 minuteshellipBus fare lol Vadavathoor to Old bus standhellip 6rshellip lolhellipBTW only 4rs landline what was your plan I hardly use tye landline the connection is only to avail broadband

Reply Link

Tharun George December 24 2013 700 pm 700 PM

Vadavathoor We are so close yet meet online I am here just before Manarcad I most signal from Vadavathoor tower

I used to pay for 1 year for landline + broadband Some times exceed and they send Rs 2 or Rs 4 bills by postal Postage itself is Rs 4 for them

Disconnected BSNL broadband and landline this month I have Asianet broadband and Relaince 2G If you are using BSNL Broadband better switch to Asianet 4mbps broadband plans

I used to get 3G signal from BSNL tower at vadavathoor But 2 months ago BSNL added 3G to Rubber Board tower BTW I get signal for all private operators from Vadavathoor Does Docomo have tower atVadavathoor I am complaining for past 5 years to them about no coverage

Reply Link

Sugu December 25 2013 527 pm 527 PM

Ah I think not Actually where does Docomo have towers My home is 2KM away from Thirunakkara Mostly I walk By the time I reach home BSNL will have switched through 3Towers (all 3G)while Docomo still remains connected to Thirunakkara I just get 1bar of range here and if I go to the hall no coverage Even when I went to my friends house 5km away its the same towerhellipIf you use android then download Network Signal Info it gives all details about that tower

Reply Link

Riju VV December 23 2013 1029 pm 1029 PM

Bsnl kerala already introduced new customer care 9400000198No need to wait just call and enter your number They will call you back

Reply Link

Tharun George December 24 2013 828 am 828 AM

You have to wait for there call back Which will take 30min ndash 1 hour

Reply Link

Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 832 pm 832 PM

They never called me back for my complaint

Reply Link

Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 830 pm 830 PM

Idea is now giving 1GB data for Rs 123 as a special offer

Reply Link

Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 144 pm 144 PM

BSNL network is dead in Kaikhali near Kolkata Airport Area for last 10 daysIt seems that BSNL network is dead in so many places of Kolkata and they are not aware of BSNL fault and it forces people to use non BSNL SIMs

Reply Link

Partha December 23 2013 842 pm 842 PM

Kaushik I live in Haldiram area near kaikhali and I did not face the problem you mentioned even for one day What was your exact location is it just beside Airport area

Reply Link

Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 1054 pm 1054 PM

Partha There are few towers surrounding Kaikhali near your area haldiramHaldiram cell info display is KENDRIYA VIHAR (ABC) which is working fine and I get its signal from Outside my home but inside its stength is NIL Only I get cell info KAMALAPUR(ABC) ampDASODRONE(ABC) with 1 bar from balcony with fluctuation every 1 minuteBut the tower with KAIKHALI(ABC) cell info is not working from last 10 days which is the nearest tower from my house which is situated at Main road of VIP

Reply Link

Kaushik Roy December 26 2013 1119 pm 1119 PM

Finally BSNL cell info (KAIKHALI ABC) tower started working from tonight after almost 12 days

Reply Link

Saurabh December 23 2013 127 pm 127 PM

Since they gave tender for expansion in North zone I hope that their service will get better in Haryana and 3G will become available by October but none of the things happened Instead their 2G network which was worst before gettingmore and more worst here The indoor signal in my area in whatever house you check is nil to 1 bar only Those living near the BTS also face call drops You canrsquot call without voice cracking The network is just getting to bottom andno one to take care I have BSNL SIM which I recharge only once in a year with Rs34 validity extension to keep it alive as I keep SIM to check service quality

Whenever you call customer care the IVR says ldquoYour extimated hold time is 35 minutes 27 secrdquo and always over it Their CC is complete dumb and people at CSC are just illiterate who has only one answer for all the question ldquoBhaiyeh toh upar waley log decide karenge tabhi upgrade hoga Ab tumhara signal nahi aata toh hum kya karerdquo Their quality is sucking to the bottom at 60shy70 places Their VLR data shows that not even 10 lakh out of 30 lakh subscribersusing it Now you can understand why

Thanks to the private companies like Vodafone and Idea and Airtel also who have ubiquitous network and even after having 3shy4 times of BSNL subscribers their network works like charm and 99 uptime Thanks to Idea for providing3G to city towns villages and everywhere I went it was there Today I donrsquot have a single contact which is of BSNL and those I have are ported out to AVoId only

Videocon has started expansion and now have more active customers than BSNL in Haryana and soon they will have mre than that of Tata and Reliance Their is a limit to stupidity and BSNLhad crossed it since it started The conditionhere is even worst then what it was in 2004 It seems that BSNL is handling 500 customers per tower here which is chocking network all the day Few weeks back their network kept dead for 3 days So those who are on bsnl are losingeverything

I hope they donrsquot launch 3G in towns as their 2G signal is 1 bar on 1800 MHz What it will be on 2100 MHz 3G bandhellip They should save money and never launch 3G in towns in Haryana A slap to BSNL face from me

Reply Link

John Thomas December 23 2013 116 pm 116 PM

What ever the writer suggested will never been going to implement I am been very long investigating BSNL policies and methodsi found that bsnl is administered by very corrupted ones Inefficient officers are getting on the top The

4142015 BSNL Continues to Report losses What Should be Next Our Analysis

httptelecomtalkinfobsnlshycontinuesshytoshyreportshylossesshywhatshyshouldshybeshynextshyourshyanalysis112349 1415

main reason why people donrsquot choose bsnl is thateven though if there is a tower nearby to ones homeit is hard to find signal inside their home Government still holds bsnl nothing for but to maintain a security level in communicationof strategic important ones

Reply Link

Ramesh Darji December 23 2013 1140 am 1140 AM

Dear Sanjay I want address issue of tata docomo not BSNL BSNL is govt company and some can understand but what happen to TataIn gujarat they have 3G but surprisingly they stop expanding 3G coverage Worst ever they switch off many sites in rural areas and highways In gujarat late entrant Uninor and videocon even doing better than tataIts worst ever they offers and schemes Their offer is changing so fast that customer lost trust on themStill they are riding on photon+ in maharastra and mumbai but their time is now over They are not realising adoption of 3G and still their data package is much higherOn the other hand realince and other 3G operator providing much cheaper 3G 156 now for realince 3G 299 for 2GB for MTNL and others are offering goodReliance Joi will launch service in short period and I think BSNL and other private operator who is not much serious about customer choice will be finished

Reply Link

jz December 23 2013 1126 am 1126 AM

bsnl is cheap and best but didnrsquot know how to encash it

Reply Link

Vamsi December 30 2013 1009 am 1009 AM

Hi frnd hellipthx for the article and my view was BSNL has a robust network to serve india better than any private company but The main and only obstacle was their employs hellipthe higher authority should initiate necessary steps todeploy corporate style to bsnlhellipbecz we all know that working hours of bsnl employs are not up to the mark so make them(Employes) work and serve better

Reply Link

Editors Pick

A handy guide to frequency bands used for telecommunication in India

News Tip

Have a breaking news inside story scoop

Write to us your anonymity is our priority at news [at] telecomtalkinfo

Submit Your Story

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Send us your articles stories suggestions feedback at news [at] telecomtalkinfo

Most DiscussedTrending

Exclusive lsquoJio Chatrsquo app goes live in Android play store and iOS App store 41Aircel replaces BSNL as the 5th largest mobile service provider in India 40Airtelrsquos Platinum 3G launched in Kolkata 39TollshyFree Apps Help Build Smart Pipes for a Digital India 35BSNL relaunches Unlimited 3G Data Plans for Rs 241 34Review Reliance Pro 3 Wifi data card RevB network just a marketing gimmick 32TRAI mandates the telcos to reduce ceiling tariffs in roaming new tariffs will benefit the customers 21Vodafone strengthens network and transforms retail for enhanced customer experience in Mumbai 21

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4142015 BSNL Continues to Report losses What Should be Next Our Analysis

httptelecomtalkinfobsnlshycontinuesshytoshyreportshylossesshywhatshyshouldshybeshynextshyourshyanalysis112349 1515

Shiv on Android 50 Lollipopshybased Cyanogen OS 12 rolling out for OnePlus OneYou mean your one plus bought

Esmail on WhatsApp gets updated with Material Design APK available for downloadGot Lollipop update for my cel

Prasath J on Global New net neutrality rules published to be effective from June 12Yes In fact one of the reas

Prasath J on TollshyFree Apps Help Build Smart Pipes for a Digital IndiaOne of the worst articles in TOlder raquo

Categories

3G in India4G in IndiaAccessoriesAircelAirtel DigitalAnalysisAppsBharti AirtelBroadband in IndiaBSNLDataData Card ReviewDEN DigitalDevicesdishTVDTHEditorialEtisalat DbGadget and Mobile AccessoriesGlobal TelecomHathway Digital CableIdea CellularInterviewLoop MobileMobile ApplicationsMobile Number Portability (MNP)Mobile Operating SystemMobile PhonesMobile VASMtnlMts IndiaRelianceReliance JioReviewS TELSpectrum Auction 2015Sun DirectT24TABLETsTATA DOCOMOTATA INDICOMTATA SkyTECHNOLOGYTELECOM ADSTRAIUNINORVIDEOCONVIDEOCON d2hVIRGIN MOBILEVodafone IndiaVoice amp Data

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Page 13: Our Analysis_How to Bring Bsnl to Golds

4142015 BSNL Continues to Report losses What Should be Next Our Analysis

httptelecomtalkinfobsnlshycontinuesshytoshyreportshylossesshywhatshyshouldshybeshynextshyourshyanalysis112349 1315

Tharun George December 24 2013 830 am 830 AM

By the way you went to Kottayam office to get Rs 5 back Once I had gone there to pay Rs 4 bill for landline They laughed at me and asked how much Bus fare I spend to get there

Reply Link

sugu December 24 2013 220 pm 220 PM

I said above 10kBs And it deducted Rs5 for 4 weeks I did not say anything about the refund but still they did and about 3G after 1030 I always get only about 50shy70kBs at home But at the morning it flies of to500shy700kBs when I went to my friendrsquos home at kumaranellor therersquos even H+ and I downloaded 270MB under 8 minuteshellipBus fare lol Vadavathoor to Old bus standhellip 6rshellip lolhellipBTW only 4rs landline what was your plan I hardly use tye landline the connection is only to avail broadband

Reply Link

Tharun George December 24 2013 700 pm 700 PM

Vadavathoor We are so close yet meet online I am here just before Manarcad I most signal from Vadavathoor tower

I used to pay for 1 year for landline + broadband Some times exceed and they send Rs 2 or Rs 4 bills by postal Postage itself is Rs 4 for them

Disconnected BSNL broadband and landline this month I have Asianet broadband and Relaince 2G If you are using BSNL Broadband better switch to Asianet 4mbps broadband plans

I used to get 3G signal from BSNL tower at vadavathoor But 2 months ago BSNL added 3G to Rubber Board tower BTW I get signal for all private operators from Vadavathoor Does Docomo have tower atVadavathoor I am complaining for past 5 years to them about no coverage

Reply Link

Sugu December 25 2013 527 pm 527 PM

Ah I think not Actually where does Docomo have towers My home is 2KM away from Thirunakkara Mostly I walk By the time I reach home BSNL will have switched through 3Towers (all 3G)while Docomo still remains connected to Thirunakkara I just get 1bar of range here and if I go to the hall no coverage Even when I went to my friends house 5km away its the same towerhellipIf you use android then download Network Signal Info it gives all details about that tower

Reply Link

Riju VV December 23 2013 1029 pm 1029 PM

Bsnl kerala already introduced new customer care 9400000198No need to wait just call and enter your number They will call you back

Reply Link

Tharun George December 24 2013 828 am 828 AM

You have to wait for there call back Which will take 30min ndash 1 hour

Reply Link

Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 832 pm 832 PM

They never called me back for my complaint

Reply Link

Akhil Mohan December 24 2013 830 pm 830 PM

Idea is now giving 1GB data for Rs 123 as a special offer

Reply Link

Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 144 pm 144 PM

BSNL network is dead in Kaikhali near Kolkata Airport Area for last 10 daysIt seems that BSNL network is dead in so many places of Kolkata and they are not aware of BSNL fault and it forces people to use non BSNL SIMs

Reply Link

Partha December 23 2013 842 pm 842 PM

Kaushik I live in Haldiram area near kaikhali and I did not face the problem you mentioned even for one day What was your exact location is it just beside Airport area

Reply Link

Kaushik Roy December 23 2013 1054 pm 1054 PM

Partha There are few towers surrounding Kaikhali near your area haldiramHaldiram cell info display is KENDRIYA VIHAR (ABC) which is working fine and I get its signal from Outside my home but inside its stength is NIL Only I get cell info KAMALAPUR(ABC) ampDASODRONE(ABC) with 1 bar from balcony with fluctuation every 1 minuteBut the tower with KAIKHALI(ABC) cell info is not working from last 10 days which is the nearest tower from my house which is situated at Main road of VIP

Reply Link

Kaushik Roy December 26 2013 1119 pm 1119 PM

Finally BSNL cell info (KAIKHALI ABC) tower started working from tonight after almost 12 days

Reply Link

Saurabh December 23 2013 127 pm 127 PM

Since they gave tender for expansion in North zone I hope that their service will get better in Haryana and 3G will become available by October but none of the things happened Instead their 2G network which was worst before gettingmore and more worst here The indoor signal in my area in whatever house you check is nil to 1 bar only Those living near the BTS also face call drops You canrsquot call without voice cracking The network is just getting to bottom andno one to take care I have BSNL SIM which I recharge only once in a year with Rs34 validity extension to keep it alive as I keep SIM to check service quality

Whenever you call customer care the IVR says ldquoYour extimated hold time is 35 minutes 27 secrdquo and always over it Their CC is complete dumb and people at CSC are just illiterate who has only one answer for all the question ldquoBhaiyeh toh upar waley log decide karenge tabhi upgrade hoga Ab tumhara signal nahi aata toh hum kya karerdquo Their quality is sucking to the bottom at 60shy70 places Their VLR data shows that not even 10 lakh out of 30 lakh subscribersusing it Now you can understand why

Thanks to the private companies like Vodafone and Idea and Airtel also who have ubiquitous network and even after having 3shy4 times of BSNL subscribers their network works like charm and 99 uptime Thanks to Idea for providing3G to city towns villages and everywhere I went it was there Today I donrsquot have a single contact which is of BSNL and those I have are ported out to AVoId only

Videocon has started expansion and now have more active customers than BSNL in Haryana and soon they will have mre than that of Tata and Reliance Their is a limit to stupidity and BSNLhad crossed it since it started The conditionhere is even worst then what it was in 2004 It seems that BSNL is handling 500 customers per tower here which is chocking network all the day Few weeks back their network kept dead for 3 days So those who are on bsnl are losingeverything

I hope they donrsquot launch 3G in towns as their 2G signal is 1 bar on 1800 MHz What it will be on 2100 MHz 3G bandhellip They should save money and never launch 3G in towns in Haryana A slap to BSNL face from me

Reply Link

John Thomas December 23 2013 116 pm 116 PM

What ever the writer suggested will never been going to implement I am been very long investigating BSNL policies and methodsi found that bsnl is administered by very corrupted ones Inefficient officers are getting on the top The

4142015 BSNL Continues to Report losses What Should be Next Our Analysis

httptelecomtalkinfobsnlshycontinuesshytoshyreportshylossesshywhatshyshouldshybeshynextshyourshyanalysis112349 1415

main reason why people donrsquot choose bsnl is thateven though if there is a tower nearby to ones homeit is hard to find signal inside their home Government still holds bsnl nothing for but to maintain a security level in communicationof strategic important ones

Reply Link

Ramesh Darji December 23 2013 1140 am 1140 AM

Dear Sanjay I want address issue of tata docomo not BSNL BSNL is govt company and some can understand but what happen to TataIn gujarat they have 3G but surprisingly they stop expanding 3G coverage Worst ever they switch off many sites in rural areas and highways In gujarat late entrant Uninor and videocon even doing better than tataIts worst ever they offers and schemes Their offer is changing so fast that customer lost trust on themStill they are riding on photon+ in maharastra and mumbai but their time is now over They are not realising adoption of 3G and still their data package is much higherOn the other hand realince and other 3G operator providing much cheaper 3G 156 now for realince 3G 299 for 2GB for MTNL and others are offering goodReliance Joi will launch service in short period and I think BSNL and other private operator who is not much serious about customer choice will be finished

Reply Link

jz December 23 2013 1126 am 1126 AM

bsnl is cheap and best but didnrsquot know how to encash it

Reply Link

Vamsi December 30 2013 1009 am 1009 AM

Hi frnd hellipthx for the article and my view was BSNL has a robust network to serve india better than any private company but The main and only obstacle was their employs hellipthe higher authority should initiate necessary steps todeploy corporate style to bsnlhellipbecz we all know that working hours of bsnl employs are not up to the mark so make them(Employes) work and serve better

Reply Link

Editors Pick

A handy guide to frequency bands used for telecommunication in India

News Tip

Have a breaking news inside story scoop

Write to us your anonymity is our priority at news [at] telecomtalkinfo

Submit Your Story

Want to be featured on TelecomTalk

Send us your articles stories suggestions feedback at news [at] telecomtalkinfo

Most DiscussedTrending

Exclusive lsquoJio Chatrsquo app goes live in Android play store and iOS App store 41Aircel replaces BSNL as the 5th largest mobile service provider in India 40Airtelrsquos Platinum 3G launched in Kolkata 39TollshyFree Apps Help Build Smart Pipes for a Digital India 35BSNL relaunches Unlimited 3G Data Plans for Rs 241 34Review Reliance Pro 3 Wifi data card RevB network just a marketing gimmick 32TRAI mandates the telcos to reduce ceiling tariffs in roaming new tariffs will benefit the customers 21Vodafone strengthens network and transforms retail for enhanced customer experience in Mumbai 21

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Chethan SSnapdeal Acquires FreeCharge To Become The Largest Mobile Commerce CompanyAirtel launches lsquoAirtel Zerorsquo to offer free data access to variety of mobile apps signed up with lsquoAirtel ZerorsquoWhat can Indian Netizens do before April 24 to save Internet in IndiaHow to use your laptop as a WishyFi Hotspot StepshybyshyStep Guide for Windows and UbuntuMapmyIndia launches its new Map APIs for Developers and enterprises

CriticsAnalysts

Yogesh l Tharun George l SS l adil

Ganesh Srinivasan l Esmail l Colorado

Kaushik l Ramarao l Nithin George l Darshan

Recent Comments

Esmail on Android 50 Lollipopshybased Cyanogen OS 12 rolling out for OnePlus OneNo I was too impatient to wait

BSNL BroadbandBSNL Mobile RechargeBSNL Bill Payment India

4142015 BSNL Continues to Report losses What Should be Next Our Analysis

httptelecomtalkinfobsnlshycontinuesshytoshyreportshylossesshywhatshyshouldshybeshynextshyourshyanalysis112349 1515

Shiv on Android 50 Lollipopshybased Cyanogen OS 12 rolling out for OnePlus OneYou mean your one plus bought

Esmail on WhatsApp gets updated with Material Design APK available for downloadGot Lollipop update for my cel

Prasath J on Global New net neutrality rules published to be effective from June 12Yes In fact one of the reas

Prasath J on TollshyFree Apps Help Build Smart Pipes for a Digital IndiaOne of the worst articles in TOlder raquo

Categories

3G in India4G in IndiaAccessoriesAircelAirtel DigitalAnalysisAppsBharti AirtelBroadband in IndiaBSNLDataData Card ReviewDEN DigitalDevicesdishTVDTHEditorialEtisalat DbGadget and Mobile AccessoriesGlobal TelecomHathway Digital CableIdea CellularInterviewLoop MobileMobile ApplicationsMobile Number Portability (MNP)Mobile Operating SystemMobile PhonesMobile VASMtnlMts IndiaRelianceReliance JioReviewS TELSpectrum Auction 2015Sun DirectT24TABLETsTATA DOCOMOTATA INDICOMTATA SkyTECHNOLOGYTELECOM ADSTRAIUNINORVIDEOCONVIDEOCON d2hVIRGIN MOBILEVodafone IndiaVoice amp Data

Copyright copy 2008shy2015 Telecom TalkGoogle Adsense Policy | Advertise with us | Terms of use | Archives

Page 14: Our Analysis_How to Bring Bsnl to Golds

4142015 BSNL Continues to Report losses What Should be Next Our Analysis

httptelecomtalkinfobsnlshycontinuesshytoshyreportshylossesshywhatshyshouldshybeshynextshyourshyanalysis112349 1415

main reason why people donrsquot choose bsnl is thateven though if there is a tower nearby to ones homeit is hard to find signal inside their home Government still holds bsnl nothing for but to maintain a security level in communicationof strategic important ones

Reply Link

Ramesh Darji December 23 2013 1140 am 1140 AM

Dear Sanjay I want address issue of tata docomo not BSNL BSNL is govt company and some can understand but what happen to TataIn gujarat they have 3G but surprisingly they stop expanding 3G coverage Worst ever they switch off many sites in rural areas and highways In gujarat late entrant Uninor and videocon even doing better than tataIts worst ever they offers and schemes Their offer is changing so fast that customer lost trust on themStill they are riding on photon+ in maharastra and mumbai but their time is now over They are not realising adoption of 3G and still their data package is much higherOn the other hand realince and other 3G operator providing much cheaper 3G 156 now for realince 3G 299 for 2GB for MTNL and others are offering goodReliance Joi will launch service in short period and I think BSNL and other private operator who is not much serious about customer choice will be finished

Reply Link

jz December 23 2013 1126 am 1126 AM

bsnl is cheap and best but didnrsquot know how to encash it

Reply Link

Vamsi December 30 2013 1009 am 1009 AM

Hi frnd hellipthx for the article and my view was BSNL has a robust network to serve india better than any private company but The main and only obstacle was their employs hellipthe higher authority should initiate necessary steps todeploy corporate style to bsnlhellipbecz we all know that working hours of bsnl employs are not up to the mark so make them(Employes) work and serve better

Reply Link

Editors Pick

A handy guide to frequency bands used for telecommunication in India

News Tip

Have a breaking news inside story scoop

Write to us your anonymity is our priority at news [at] telecomtalkinfo

Submit Your Story

Want to be featured on TelecomTalk

Send us your articles stories suggestions feedback at news [at] telecomtalkinfo

Most DiscussedTrending

Exclusive lsquoJio Chatrsquo app goes live in Android play store and iOS App store 41Aircel replaces BSNL as the 5th largest mobile service provider in India 40Airtelrsquos Platinum 3G launched in Kolkata 39TollshyFree Apps Help Build Smart Pipes for a Digital India 35BSNL relaunches Unlimited 3G Data Plans for Rs 241 34Review Reliance Pro 3 Wifi data card RevB network just a marketing gimmick 32TRAI mandates the telcos to reduce ceiling tariffs in roaming new tariffs will benefit the customers 21Vodafone strengthens network and transforms retail for enhanced customer experience in Mumbai 21

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Chethan SSnapdeal Acquires FreeCharge To Become The Largest Mobile Commerce CompanyAirtel launches lsquoAirtel Zerorsquo to offer free data access to variety of mobile apps signed up with lsquoAirtel ZerorsquoWhat can Indian Netizens do before April 24 to save Internet in IndiaHow to use your laptop as a WishyFi Hotspot StepshybyshyStep Guide for Windows and UbuntuMapmyIndia launches its new Map APIs for Developers and enterprises

CriticsAnalysts

Yogesh l Tharun George l SS l adil

Ganesh Srinivasan l Esmail l Colorado

Kaushik l Ramarao l Nithin George l Darshan

Recent Comments

Esmail on Android 50 Lollipopshybased Cyanogen OS 12 rolling out for OnePlus OneNo I was too impatient to wait

BSNL BroadbandBSNL Mobile RechargeBSNL Bill Payment India

4142015 BSNL Continues to Report losses What Should be Next Our Analysis

httptelecomtalkinfobsnlshycontinuesshytoshyreportshylossesshywhatshyshouldshybeshynextshyourshyanalysis112349 1515

Shiv on Android 50 Lollipopshybased Cyanogen OS 12 rolling out for OnePlus OneYou mean your one plus bought

Esmail on WhatsApp gets updated with Material Design APK available for downloadGot Lollipop update for my cel

Prasath J on Global New net neutrality rules published to be effective from June 12Yes In fact one of the reas

Prasath J on TollshyFree Apps Help Build Smart Pipes for a Digital IndiaOne of the worst articles in TOlder raquo

Categories

3G in India4G in IndiaAccessoriesAircelAirtel DigitalAnalysisAppsBharti AirtelBroadband in IndiaBSNLDataData Card ReviewDEN DigitalDevicesdishTVDTHEditorialEtisalat DbGadget and Mobile AccessoriesGlobal TelecomHathway Digital CableIdea CellularInterviewLoop MobileMobile ApplicationsMobile Number Portability (MNP)Mobile Operating SystemMobile PhonesMobile VASMtnlMts IndiaRelianceReliance JioReviewS TELSpectrum Auction 2015Sun DirectT24TABLETsTATA DOCOMOTATA INDICOMTATA SkyTECHNOLOGYTELECOM ADSTRAIUNINORVIDEOCONVIDEOCON d2hVIRGIN MOBILEVodafone IndiaVoice amp Data

Copyright copy 2008shy2015 Telecom TalkGoogle Adsense Policy | Advertise with us | Terms of use | Archives

Page 15: Our Analysis_How to Bring Bsnl to Golds

4142015 BSNL Continues to Report losses What Should be Next Our Analysis

httptelecomtalkinfobsnlshycontinuesshytoshyreportshylossesshywhatshyshouldshybeshynextshyourshyanalysis112349 1515

Shiv on Android 50 Lollipopshybased Cyanogen OS 12 rolling out for OnePlus OneYou mean your one plus bought

Esmail on WhatsApp gets updated with Material Design APK available for downloadGot Lollipop update for my cel

Prasath J on Global New net neutrality rules published to be effective from June 12Yes In fact one of the reas

Prasath J on TollshyFree Apps Help Build Smart Pipes for a Digital IndiaOne of the worst articles in TOlder raquo

Categories

3G in India4G in IndiaAccessoriesAircelAirtel DigitalAnalysisAppsBharti AirtelBroadband in IndiaBSNLDataData Card ReviewDEN DigitalDevicesdishTVDTHEditorialEtisalat DbGadget and Mobile AccessoriesGlobal TelecomHathway Digital CableIdea CellularInterviewLoop MobileMobile ApplicationsMobile Number Portability (MNP)Mobile Operating SystemMobile PhonesMobile VASMtnlMts IndiaRelianceReliance JioReviewS TELSpectrum Auction 2015Sun DirectT24TABLETsTATA DOCOMOTATA INDICOMTATA SkyTECHNOLOGYTELECOM ADSTRAIUNINORVIDEOCONVIDEOCON d2hVIRGIN MOBILEVodafone IndiaVoice amp Data

Copyright copy 2008shy2015 Telecom TalkGoogle Adsense Policy | Advertise with us | Terms of use | Archives