Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited ( BSNL) is an Indian State Owned Telecommunications Company  headquartered in New Delhi, India and is the largest provider of 'fixed Tekephony' and the 4th largest Mobile Telephony Providerin India and is also a provider of Broadband Services.

BSNL operates throughout India except for the metropolitan cities of -
Mumbai and
New Delhi
which are managed by ' Mahanagar Telephone Nigam '  (MTNL).

BSNL had a customer base of 95 million as of June 2011

Main telecom services provided by BSNL are -

Fixed wireline services and landline in local loop (WLL) using CDMA Technology called bfone and Tarang respectively. As of June 30, 2010, BSNL had 75% marketshare of fixed lines.

Cellular Mobile Telephone services using GSM platform under the brand name Cellone & Excel (BSNL Mobile). As of June 30, 2010 BSNL has 13.50% share of mobile telephony in the country.

WLL (Wireless in Local Loop)service is a service giving both fixed line telephony & Mobile telephony.


Internet Access services through dial-up connection (as Sancharnet through 2009) as Prepaid, Net One as Postpaid and ADSL broadband as BSNL Broadband.

'3G' or the'3rd Generation' services which includes facilities like video calling, mobile broadband, live TV, 3G Video portal, streaming services like online full length movies and video on demand etc.


BSNL, along with Sai Infosystem - an Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) provider - has launched Voice and Video Over Internet Protocol (VVoIP). This will allow to make audio as well as video calls to any landline, mobile, or IP phone anywhere in the world, provided that the requisite video phone equipment is available at both ends.