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BSNL CROSS MARK OF 300 CITIES FOR 3G ROLL OUT
New Delhi: 5th February, 2010: In less than one year, 3G service has been rolled out in 318
cities with 8.56 lakh subscribers. In the first phase of its roll out, BSNL has plans to cross 400
cities by 31st March and 760 cities by September 2010, which will cover all important cities
across the country.
BSNL soft launched premium 3G service in Chennai on February 22, 2009. Commercial
launch of the service commenced on February 27, 2009 in 11 selected cities in North & East
Zones. Service has since been launched in South Zone also.
BSNL's present mobile customer base is 59.5 million and during the last two months average
monthly addition has been 2 million connections. Recent media reports have been depicting
BSNL losing ground to the competitors and sliding from 4th position to 6th position. The fact is
that BSNL still holds 4th position in the wireless segment which can be corroborated from the
report released by TRAI on 27th January, 2010. As per TRAI report for 31st December, 2009,
customer base of top six wireless operators is:-
WIRELESS SUBSCRIBER BASE
WIRELESS OPERATOR
NO. OF
CONNECTIONS
POSITION
BHARTI (AIRTEL) 118,864,031 I
RELIANCE 93,795,613 II
VODAFONE 91,401,959 III
BSNL 62,861,214 IV
IDEA 57,611,872 V
TATA TELESERVICES 57,329,449 VI
TOTAL WIRELESS 525,147,922
It is worth mentioning here that BSNL is not operating in high potential Delhi & Mumbai LSAs
where the other top five operators namely Bharti, Reliance, Vodaphone, Idea & Tata together
have around 42 million customers.
(M.M.C. Sharma)
Asstt. Director (PR)
Corporate & Registered Office: Bharat Sanchar Bhawan, Harish Chandra Mathur Lane,
Janpath Road, New Delhi-110001
Bharat Sanchar Bhawan,
Corporate Office, New Delhi-1
Tele. No. 23734027, Fax:
23734028
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