BSNL 3G coming to 12 cities this month

BSNL 3G coming to 12 cities this month

Government owned telecom giant Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has announced that they would launch their 3G services in 12 cities in India this month.

Union minister for communication and IT A Raja launched the BSNL 3G service in Chennai by making a video call to Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi.

Raja spoke about the new developments: “Considering the need for faster penetration of 3G, and the need for telecom access to rural areas, the Government policy will allow telecom infrastructure sharing between commercial telcos as well as infrastructure providers.”

BSNL CMD Kuldeep Goyal spoke about the launch of 3G services on their network: “Besides upgrading mobile data speeds to 2 mbps from the present 144 kbps, we will also offer video screening of calls, video on demand, mobile surveillance, Live TV, movie downloads etc on our 3G platform.”

They are collaborating with Nokia, Sony and Samsung for offering 3G capable mobile handsets along with packages in the market.

The cheapest of the device would cost around Rs. 7000. BSNL said that the fixed monthly charges would range from Rs.350 for prepaid to Rs 500 for postpaid.