Coimbatore: Employees at the BSNL office near the Coimbatore railway station are on a hunger strike demanding the central government to provide 4G service to BSNL immediately.
Coimbatore: Employees at the BSNL office near the Coimbatore railway station are on a hunger strike demanding the central government to provide 4G service to BSNL immediately.
It has been 20 years since BSNL became a state-owned telecommunications company. Employees and officials of BSNL across the country are observing this as a black day. In 1995, the federal government licensed mobile services to private companies only. BSNL and MTNL were granted mobile service permission seven years later after several protests and demonstrations.
Meanwhile, the tenders were canceled on false grounds in 2007 even though BSNL had taken the mobile service to the poorest of the poor and had overtaken the private telecommunications companies to become the second largest in a few years.
During this period, mobile expansion took place on a large scale and BSNL began to suffer losses as private companies captured 85 per cent of the telecom market, and employees and officials said that it had started making profits again since 2013 due to their initiative.
In this context, the two companies at the peak were shaken by the arrival of Jio and said that BSNL, which is owned by the people of India, is the only company that is gaining new customers without losing customers and BSNL is the only company that operates without looking at profits and losses in times of calamity.
They blamed BSNL for completing the thousands of kilometers of undersea cable laying work from Chennai to the Andamans in the winter within the allotted time, but accused the central government of continuing to deny 4G service.
In addition, the federal government has canceled a tender to buy 4G equipment while the Jio service, which was launched in 2016, had entered the 4G spectrum market and that the federal government had been refusing 4G service only to BSNL to date. They accused the federal government of denying permission for the existing towers to be upgraded and imposing impossible conditions.
They lamented that if the government does ensure 4G service to BSNL, its future will become questionable and demanded BSNL should immediately be provided the service so that it can better serve the people in this data age.
They also demanded that the Central Government should immediately announce this and said if not implemented now it will be never done. On this day, the 20th anniversary of the founding of BSNL, the unions went on a hunger strike and observe the day as a black day.
It has been 20 years since BSNL became a state-owned telecommunications company. Employees and officials of BSNL across the country are observing this as a black day. In 1995, the federal government licensed mobile services to private companies only. BSNL and MTNL were granted mobile service permission seven years later after several protests and demonstrations.
Meanwhile, the tenders were canceled on false grounds in 2007 even though BSNL had taken the mobile service to the poorest of the poor and had overtaken the private telecommunications companies to become the second largest in a few years.
During this period, mobile expansion took place on a large scale and BSNL began to suffer losses as private companies captured 85 per cent of the telecom market, and employees and officials said that it had started making profits again since 2013 due to their initiative.
In this context, the two companies at the peak were shaken by the arrival of Jio and said that BSNL, which is owned by the people of India, is the only company that is gaining new customers without losing customers and BSNL is the only company that operates without looking at profits and losses in times of calamity.
They blamed BSNL for completing the thousands of kilometers of undersea cable laying work from Chennai to the Andamans in the winter within the allotted time, but accused the central government of continuing to deny 4G service.
In addition, the federal government has canceled a tender to buy 4G equipment while the Jio service, which was launched in 2016, had entered the 4G spectrum market and that the federal government had been refusing 4G service only to BSNL to date. They accused the federal government of denying permission for the existing towers to be upgraded and imposing impossible conditions.
They lamented that if the government does ensure 4G service to BSNL, its future will become questionable and demanded BSNL should immediately be provided the service so that it can better serve the people in this data age.
They also demanded that the Central Government should immediately announce this and said if not implemented now it will be never done. On this day, the 20th anniversary of the founding of BSNL, the unions went on a hunger strike and observe the day as a black day.