Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Wednesday, May 28, 2003 |
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Telecommunications BSNL hopeful of 5 m customers by year-end Our Bureau
KOLKATA, May 27 BHARAT Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is hopeful of having a cellular customer base of five million by end-March 2004. Currently, it a cellular customer base of around 2.8 million, according to the Chairman and Managing Director, Mr Prithipal Singh. Mr Singh, who inaugurated a modern technology switch and a Centrex facility at the Kolkata Police Headquarters on Tuesday, said that cellular telephony was a major focus area for BSNL. "BSNL's revenues in the current fiscal would be maintained at its 2002-03 levels of around Rs 26,000 crore despite the drop in telecom tariffs.'' The Centrex that has been installed at the police headquarters will function as a virtual EPABX for the use of the police stations in Kolkata and officers of the Kolkata Police force. For this purpose, a total of 436 telephones that have been distributed over the jurisdiction of Kolkata Police have been grouped together. For a monthly charge of Rs 100 per connection, officers of Kolkata Police can talk among themselves without having to pay any extra charges.
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