Over 37,000 villages in the county were yet to be connected with mobile telephony services as of March 2011, according to Minister of State for Communications and IT, Milind Deora.
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BSNL plans PE for tower unit auction
Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) is planning to rope in private equity investors, includÂing telecom companies, to pick up stake in a new company that will be floated by hiving off the state-run telecom major's towers.
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The optical fibre network to be set up by Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) for defence forces in return for their vacating telecom spectrum might be delayed as Department of Telecommunications (DoT.
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DoT revives BSNL, MTNL merger plans
The Department of TelecomÂmunications (DoT) has revived a proposal for the merger of state-run telecom firms Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL) to synergise their business operations across the country.
BSNL 3G services in Kerala
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