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KOLKATA: Over 70,000 landlines and 10,000 broadband connections including those, reportedly, at chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's Palm Avenue residence tripped after a fire broke out at a BSNL office on Hungerford Street around 10 pm on Tuesday. Though five fire tenders managed to bring the situation under control in two hours, the thick smoke triggered panic in the area. According to police, the BSNL mother station at 10/2 Hungerford Street seemed to have caught fire after an electrical fault. Apart from the landlines and broadband connections, 3,000 leased lines and 55 RSUS (Remote Satellite Exchange) connected by DLC (Digital Loop Carrier) were affected. BSNL sources said that 55 other exchanges fall under the mother station. All of them have been affected. "The lines at the CM's residence will need repairs," said a BSNL official. "No BSNL official informed us about the incident, leading to delay. We got a phone call from a local resident and rushed there," said an official of the fire department. DC (South) Rajesh Subarno and other Kolkata police officers went to the spot to probe the case.

All India GSM Subscriber Figures for June 2010

In Kerala circle, Our net addition in GSM connections in June 2010 was 57673 there by increasing the total number of GSM connections to 3752093 on 30.0.2010. third to idea cellular with 5662302 connections and Vodafone Essar having 4447067 connections.

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MEETING WITH CGMT

Circle Secretary Sri. Ajith Kumar along with Finance Secretary Sri. Hareesh S.V, Asst. Secretary Sri. Hari and Thiruvananthapuram District President Sri. Santhosh met CGMT today and greeted on his assumption of charge as the Chief General Manager of Kerala Telecom Circle.

Circle Executive meeting

Circle Executive meeting of AIGETOA, Kerala was conducted at PWD Rest house hall, Ernakulam on 11.07.2010. Six members from Malappuram SSA including SSA President Sri. Sambhu Chandran and SSA Secretary Sri. Faisal E attended the meeting.

The main topics of discussion were the Pay issue of 2007 and 2008 batches and the pending transfer cases of JTOs. Arranging welcome for 2008 batch JTOs and conducting Circle conference were also discussed.

In the meeting it was decided to meet the CGM at the earliest to explain the problems we are facing now, especially the pay issue and the transfer cases. CGM was out of station till thursday, 15th of this month and hence we are planning to meet him by monday of the coming week.