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Essel headed by Subhash Chandra, the newly sworn in Rajya Sabha member, has announced that an MoU has been signed with the state owned telecom company BSNL and is slated to function as a virtual network operator for broadband services. In a report published by Business Insider, BSNL chairman and managing director, Anupam Shrivastava told PTI that, “We have signed a memorandum of understanding with Essel Group in presence of Essel Group chairman Subhash Chandra. One of the area is VNO where Essel will set up its infrastructure and work with...

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State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is planning to offer Internet bandwidth to the Members of Parliament (MPs) to digitally empower people in their constituencies through the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojna initiative under the Member of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) scheme. According to ET report, in a letter dated July 25, 2016, BSNL chairman Anupam Shrivastava sought support from all the 543 parliamentarians individually to provision Wi-Fi services in their respective constituencies or villages to accelerate Digital India programme as part of government-to-government (G2G) initiative. “We have written to all...

The operator community has come up with a 100-day plan in this regard, which will include setting up of additional 60,000 towers across the country along with leveraging the latest network technology for an enhanced consumer experience. The plan was tabled by the telecom operators in a meeting with the secretary of the Department of Telecom(DoT). The meeting witnessed the presence of incumbent players including Bharti Airtel, Idea, BSNL, Vodafone and Reliance Jio which assured DoT regarding better quality of services in the coming times. The DoT secretary has also...