Long Standing Lists

List of Long Standing Officers belonging to Trivandrum and Ernakulum SSAs  are prepared and published via intranet.

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GSM Figures Oct 2010

BSNL Kerala added a whooping 5.28L GSM customers to give a 12% leap in the growth rate. As on Oct BSNL Kerala is on 2nd spot @ 4.8M behind Idea with 6.0M. Vodafone is @ 3rd with 4.7M customers.

On All India GSM subscribers base grew 3 per cent in October with the addition of 14.7 million subscribers with telecom giant Bharti Airtel alone signing over 3 million users.

The total number of subscribers in the country crossed 508.72 million as against 494 million the previous month, data released by Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) showed.

Bharti Airtel now gains a market share of 28.76 per cent, with 146.29 million subscribers -- the highest in the country.

Vodafone added 2.49 million subscribers in the country, a growth of 40 per cent as against 1.78 million the previous month to have a total of 118 million subscribers.

State-owned BSNL and new telecom operator Uninor closely followed up with 2.48 million each to have a total of 75 million and 13.7 million respectively.

Idea Cellular signed over 1.8 million subscribers, a growth of 22.5 per cent as against September taking its total number to 76 million.

COAI GSM FIGURES for OCT 2010

Notice to Centre on telecom appointments

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to reply on a public interest litigation (PIL) petition that has alleged irregularities in the appointment of heads of two telecom public sector undertakings — BSNL and MTNL. The petition has accused Communications and IT Minister A. Raja and his “trusted” officials in this regard.

Accepting a joint petition filed by an NGO — Telecom Watchdog — and the Sanchar Nigam Executives' Association pleading that the procedure for appointment of heads of BSNL and MTNL was arbitrary and it should be quashed, a Bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra issued notices to the Centre and the Department of Telecommunications seeking their response.

BSNL to get additional subsidies, compensation for WiMAX operations

BSNL is set to get additional subsidies to support its landline business. Also on the cards is a plan to compensate the telco for its WiMAX operations in rural India as well as mandate that all PSUs and government departments must avail services from this telco. >>>>>>>>>

BSNL adds 2.5 mn mobile users in Oct

BSNL today said it has managed to add a whopping 2.5 million mobile subscribers in October, despite the fierce competition from new and incumbent private operators.BSNL had added only 1.08 million subscribers in July. However, subscriber additions picked up from August when it added 2.2 million users. BSNL added 2.3 million users in September. BSNL has over 81 million subscribers.» » » »

DoT rejects Pitroda panel suggestions on BSNL

A government panel has rejected some key recommendations of the Sam Pitroda committee set up by the prime minister to suggest a turnaround strategy for loss-making BSNL, saying drastic changes in a state-owned company could impact the running of all public sector units..» » » »

Key Rejections.
1. No splitting up of CMD into C & MD
2. No IPO for 2 years (2 years for improvising financial health)
3. No NON-ITS eminence for top-brass.

Key Acceptances.
1. Cut down employees strength by 30%
2. The ‘managed capacity’ model’ equipment procurement process.
3. Must complete ongoing restructuring by March 2011.
4. Share its infrastructure with private companies to improve its revenue streams,
5. Launch a venture fund with its Rs 30,000-crore cash surplus
6. Hive its land bank into a separate company and monetise it.

BSNL, Datacraft sign pact to set up data centres

 BSNL today said it has signed a pact with IT firm Datacraft Asia to set up data centres and provide IT-related services to customers with an initial investment of Rs 200 crore.In the first phase BSNL and Datacraft will open data centres in six regions with an investment of Rs 200 crore. 

Both the companies did not reveal the revenue sharing. The alliance is for a period of 10 years, wherein BSNL will provide the infrastructure base to Datacraft in turn the IT firm will provide services, including IT systems, cloud computing under the brand 'onecloud' to clients.» » » »

Random testing of telecom tower radiation from next month:Govt

Worried about reports of a clear link between serious ailments and strong radiation emanating from mobile towers, the government has taken a tough stance and will start random testing of towers next month, with a huge penalty proposed in case of non-compliance with norms.» » » » » » » »

BSNL's new Rs 2k-cr tender runs into trouble

The new controversy relates to Nokia Siemens Networks wanting BSNL not to enforce a clause in its latest tender that mandates vendors to share their source codes with the Indian government. This has been opposed by Ericsson, which dropped out from placing a bid as the world’s largest telecoms equipment maker said it would not follow the new tender clause that made it mandatory for equipment suppliers to submit source codes to the government. 

Ericsson executives also maintain that if BSNL were to make any concessions to Nokia Siemens and relax this clause, it would violate existing government guidelines which does not allow the telco to change rules midway through the tendering process. Ericsson’s objections are further strengthened by the fact that the company has in the past emerged as the lowest bidders in BSNL’s tenders. » » » » » » » »