Government officials have stated that options are being explored to redeploy the 2,500–3,000 affected employees across the DoT, BSNL, and other ministries. However, no concrete plan for this has been formally shared, adding to employee anxiety. HR Katha

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The meeting involved wide-ranging discussions focused on growth strategy, improvement in network performance, customer service delivery, and organizational modernization. It also reinforced BSNL’s positioning as a consumer-centric telecom service provider with a clear mandate of “Revenue First” targets across all business units.

As a government-owned CPSE, BSNL is undergoing a major service transformation and has declared April 2025 as “Customer Service Month” across all circles, business areas, and units. This initiative reflects BSNL’s renewed focus on “Customer First” culture, emphasizing proactive customer engagement, service responsiveness, and grievance redressal.

During the two-day CGM meet, Circle Heads are being briefed and aligned on re-engaging customers across rural, urban, enterprise, and retail segments.

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Hyderabad: January 31, 2025 – Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), in collaboration with OTTplay, India’s leading streaming platform aggregator, has introduced BSNL Intertainment—an innovative Internet TV service. This service provides BSNL mobile users all over India with free access to over 450+ live TV channels, including premium channels.

Following the launch of pilot in Pondicherry, BiTV is now being launched pan India as part of BSNL’s vision to bring world-class entertainment to its users. With BSNL Intertainment, BSNL customers can access OTTs like Bhaktiflix, Shortfundly, Kanccha Lannka, STAGE, OM TV, Playflix, Fancode, Distro, Hubhopper and Runn Tv along with 450+ live TV channels, blockbuster movies, and web series.

Speaking at the launch event, BSNL CMD Robert J Ravi I T S, stated, “With BiTV, through our partners, BSNL is giving every customer the power to access entertainment on the go, ‘anytime, anywhere’, free of cost, irrespective of the plan they are on. BiTV is a testament to BSNL’s commitment to digital inclusion and BSNL will be one of the first telecom service provider to revolutionize through this groundbreaking service.”

Echoing this vision, Avinash Mudaliar, Co-founder & CEO of OTTplay, shared, “We are incredibly excited to announce our partnership with BSNL for the launch of BiTV. Through this partnership, BSNL users will gain exclusive access to an extensive library of premium content, offering a truly elevated viewing experience. Whether it’s movies, TV shows, or exclusive content, we’re committed to delivering world-class entertainment. Together with BSNL, we aim to set a new standard for entertainment services in the region, ensuring that users can enjoy high-quality, on-demand content anytime, anywhere.” 

Why Choose BSNL Intertainment?

• Unlimited Entertainment – Apart from live TV, enjoy movies, web series, and documentaries in multiple languages, all at no cost.
•    Seamless Streaming – Powered by BSNL’s secure mobile internet, BiTV ensures uninterrupted streaming with exceptional video quality
• Ultimate Combo – BSNL users now enjoy high-speed internet plus a complete entertainment package.

How it works for BSNL Mobile users?

• Login to FMS portal – https://fms.bsnl.in/iptvreg
• Select your state, select BiTV provider (OTTplay)
• Enter your Registered Mobile No. (RMN) and submit the OTP received on RMN to activate your service
• Download OTTplay app from the link received in your SMS or directly from Google playstore or App Store
• Login using your registered mobile number and enjoy endless entertainment.

Through this partnership, BSNL and OTTplay are driving digital inclusion by making quality entertainment accessible to all, irrespective of location or financial constraints. By combining BSNL’s extensive telecom network with OTTplay’s vast content library, this initiative aims to bridge the digital divide and revolutionize entertainment consumption in India.

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• BSNL entrusted HFCL to implement its highly advanced Broadband Network Gateway (BNG), with CUPS (Control and User Plane Separation) architecture
• HFCL executes one of the world’s largest CUPS architecture-based BNG deployment for BSNL in an accelerated and seamless manner for legacy network migration
• This new architecture boosts BSNL’s network efficiency, delivering superior high-speed data services for Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) and Enterprise applications, significantly increasing capacity and reliability
• This deployment will also serve as the Internet Gateway for the Government of India’s prestigious BharatNet project, supporting the existing 1.5 Lac Gram Panchayats and the upcoming expansion under BharatNet Phase-III project

Bengaluru, August 29, 2024: HFCL Limited (HFCL), a leading technology enterprise and integrated next-gen communications product and solution provider, today announced that it has completed the successful commissioning of BSNL’s Network Infrastructure Enhancement Project. Under this project, HFCL has commissioned the highly advanced version of Broadband Network Gateway (BNG), with Control and User Plane Separation (CUPS) architecture and associated subscriber Policy Manager & Authentication platform. The project involved a nationwide deployment across India, with a total value of ~INR 390 crore, including Operations and Maintenance (O&M).

This crucial infrastructure upgradation to CUPS architecture, executed by HFCL in alignment with BSNL’s goal, will transform BSNL’s network to support high-end enterprise customers as well as to bridge the digital divide, especially in rural and remote areas. This new architecture will enable BSNL to enhance its Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) based broadband network service expansion.

This cutting-edge technology is designed to improve network efficiency, scalability, and service quality for BSNL’s broadband customers. By improving BNG infrastructure and providing advanced connectivity options, BSNL will ensure more reliable, accessible and affordable broadband services for all its users.

Network operators deploy BNG to expand the broadband coverage, and to provide faster and controlled access to avoid any bandwidth constraints, thereby allowing the network to scale up seamlessly. CUPS architecture for BNG is an increasingly capable, versatile and strategic platform that allows independent location, and life cycle management of Control Plane Functions (CPFs). The upgraded BNG infrastructure will serve as the Internet Gateway for all enterprise and home users of BSNL, as well as for the existing BharatNet network of 1.5 Lac Gram Panchayats and the upcoming pan-India BharatNet expansion in Phase –III.

Mr. Mahendra Nahata, Managing Director of HFCL said, “HFCL is proud to have successfully executed one-of-the-world’s largest Control and User Plane Separation (CUPS) architecture-based Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) deployments for BSNL. This nationwide network enhancement project, covering the length and breadth of India will serve all broadband and enterprise consumers of BSNL for many years to come. The success of this project, marked by significant achievements and technical milestones, reinforces our position as a trusted partner for our customers. It has laid a strong foundation for modernizing with new technologies, enhancing network efficiency, scalability, and service quality across the Indian telecommunications landscape.”

This project was initiated in October 2022 and was successfully commissioned in August 2024. HFCL executed this crucial infrastructure upgrade to CUPS architecture end-to-end, including the design, supply, commissioning, testing, and seamless migration of legacy networks and services to the new network.

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Mittal also said the telecom regulator needs to urgently intervene to fix a floor price for tariffs. This, he said, is required for the average revenue per user (ARPU) to rise to Rs 200 initially, and to Rs 300 over time, for the industry to be healthy and sustainable.

“The situation is dire — it is a matter of survival for everyone. Vodafone (Idea) is in losses, Airtel is in losses, (state-owned) BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd) is in losses,” Mittal said.

“We are in a better situation—we have now decided to raise funds,” Mittal said. “However, if you have to go in for network expansion, invest in newer technologies, bid for 5G spectrum and then build a 5G ecosystem which India deserves, then industry needs to be viable.”

Referring to the Bharti Airtel statement in the fiscal second quarter regarding concerns about viability if it couldn’t raise money on its terms in the face of the AGR dues, Mittal said, “That is an accounting standard They (auditor Deloitte) called it out. It isn’t my interpretation or view of the company… It is a standard and that is why we are in the market to raise money.”

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