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BSNL logo used until October 2024. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited is an Indian government enterprise and its history can be traced back to British India.The foundation of the telecommunications network in India was laid by the British sometime during the 19th century.
BSNL Broadband (formerly DataOne) [3] is an Indian wireline broadband operator, a division of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited owned by Department of Telecommunications under Ministry of Communications of the Government of India. It provides both wired and wireless broadband services as well as many value-added services.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) was incorporated on 15 September 2000. It took over the business of providing telecom services and network management from the erstwhile Central Government Departments of Telecom Services (DTS) and Telecom Operations (DTO), with effect from 1 October 2000 on a going concern basis, in early days it was known as CellOne for GSM mobile services, Excel for ...
In February 2018, the average broadband speed of fixed-line connection in India was 20.72 Mbit/s, which is less than the global average download speed of 42.71 Mbit/s. [76] In terms of mobile internet speed, India performed quite poorly, with average speed of 9.01 Mbit/s when compared with global average mobile broadband speed was 22.16 Mbit/s.
On 23 October 2019, the Government of India announced revival package for BSNL and MTNL which includes monetising assets, raising funds, TD-LTE spectrum, voluntary retirement scheme for employees. Apart from package, Ministry of Communications decided to merge of MTNL with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited. Pending this, MTNL will be subsidiary of BSNL.
[17] The definition was amended in July 2013 defining broadband as a "data connection that supports interactive services, including internet access, capable of a minimum download speed of 256 kbps to an individual subscriber." [26] [27] The minimum download speed was officially raised from 256 kbit/s to 512 kbit/s in August 2014. [28]
Wireless Planning and Coordination Wing; Telecom Engineering Center [5]; Controller of Communication Accounts; Telecom Enforcement Resource and Monitoring (TERM) cells; In 2007, in order to distinctly address the issues of Communication Network Security at DOT (HQ) level, consequent to enhancement of FDI limit in Telecom sector from 49% to 74%, a new wing named Security was created in DOT (HQ).
This is a non-exhaustive world-wide list of government-owned companies.The paragraph that follows was paraphrased from a 1996 GAO report which investigated only the 20th-century American experience.