BSNL Mobile

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BSNL Mobile
State-owned enterprise
Industry Telecommunications
Founded October 2000 (2000-10)
Headquarters New Delhi, India
Area served
 India
Services Mobile telephony
Wireless broadband
Revenue Increase ₹351,820 million (2010)[2]
Increase ₹99,390 million (2010)[2]
Total assets Increase ₹630,000 million (2010)[2]
Members 113.34 million[3] (July 2018)
Number of employees
 201,066 (November 2016)[4]
Parent Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
Website www.bsnl.co.in

BSNL Mobile (formerly CellOne) is an Indian mobile network operator, operated by the public enterprise BSNL. It provides both pre-paid and post-paid mobile services as well as many value added services.[5] BSNL Mobile has a pan-India presence with presence in all the 22 telecom circles in India. BSNL Mobile provides all of India with roaming access, including Delhi and Mumbai, and International roaming access to more than 300 networks across the world.

Radio frequency summary

BSNL owns spectrum in 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2100 MHz and 2500 MHz bands across the country.[6]

Telecom circle coverage FD-LTE
850MHz
Band 5		 E-GSM
900MHz
Band 8		 GSM / FD-LTE
1800MHz
Band 3		 UMTS
2100MHz
Band 1		 TD-LTE
2500MHz
Band 41
Kolkata
Andhra Pradesh & Telangana
Gujarat
Karnataka
Maharashtra & Goa
Tamil Nadu
Haryana
Kerala
Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh
Punjab
Rajasthan
Uttar Pradesh (East)
Uttar Pradesh (West)
West Bengal
Assam
Bihar & Jharkhand
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
North East
Odisha

The company's CellOne network (GSM/GPRS) was launched in late 2002 and has coverage in major cities and towns and more places are being covered. BSNL Mobile offers both GSM as well as CDMA prepaid and postpaid services. CellOne was renamed BSNL Mobile in 2007. It was the first company which made incoming roaming charges free across the country. BSNL has total 113.34 million subscribers as on 31 July 2018.[3]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.bsnl.co.in/opencms/bsnl/BSNL/about_us/finance/finance.html
  2. 1 2 3 "About Us". Archived from the original on August 17, 2011. Retrieved August 17, 2011.
  3. 1 2 "Press Release on Telecom Subscription Data as of July 2018" (PDF). Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. 18 September 2018.
  4. ↑ "Staff". Archived from the original on September 8, 2018. Retrieved September 8, 2018.
  5. ↑ "BSNL's share in mobile business dips to single digit". Times of India. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  6. ↑ Pan India 2016 spectrum holding data sheet (updated), Telecom Talk, retrieved 15 July 2018
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