Mr Kuldeep Goyal, and the DoT Secretary, Mr Siddhartha
Behura, at the launch of BSNL 3G mobile services in Chennai
on Sunday. - R. Raghu
BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd) launched 3G mobile
services from Chennai on 22/02/09 Sunday.
The national launch of the third generation mobile
service in Chennai enables a range of upgraded services,
including rich voice, data and video services,
to the subscribers.
3G makes possible video streaming applications such
as Live TV, movie downloads, high speed data download
on mobile phones with 3G services enabled.
Callers can also see each other on their mobile
phone screens, according to a press release from BSNL.
The new service will offer data speed of 2 Mbps against
144 Kbps available now over the GPRS and EDGE enabled
mobile networks.
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Mr M. Karunanidhi,
launched the service with an inaugural call to the
Union Minister for Communication and IT,
Mr A. Raja, the release said.
BSNL is the first mobile company to launch the service
in Chennai. Chennai Telephones has installed 25 stations
(Node-Bs) in the city for the initial launch and these would
be expanded fast.
BSNL plans to invest over Rs 2,700 crore to provide 3G
service in important cities, commercially important towns
and all the district headquarters.
The Communications Minister said BSNL plans to cover more
than 700 cities with 3G services. The mobile network has been
expanded making India emerge the second largest mobile
telephone market after China.
Over 360 million mobile connections have been provided
and this is expected to double by 2012. Teledensity has
reached 34 per cent in January 2009 up from
12.74 percent in 2006.
New initiatives such as bringing down tariff to 40-50 paise a
minute, mobile number portability — allowing subscribers to
retain their number while changing operators — are in the
pipeline.
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