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BSNL to double data capacity to take on private telcom players
In South, we will double the capacity to 600 TB and in other zones, it will be up to 450 TB by November,” said BSNL Chairman and MD Anupam Shrivastava. The loss-making state-run telecom firm did not participate in the spectrum auction and is making efforts to monetise its existing mobile airwaves.
New Delhi : Gearing up to compete with private players, state-owned telecom firm BSNL plans to ramp up its mobile broadband capacity by up to two-fold to 600 terabyte (TB) in a month. We are seeing enormous increase in the usage of mobile data on our network. We will be increasing our data network capacity to deliver high-speed 3G and other services.
In South, we will double the capacity to 600 TB and in other zones, it will be up to 450 TB by November,” said BSNL Chairman and MD Anupam Shrivastava. The loss-making state-run telecom firm did not participate in the spectrum auction and is making efforts to monetise its existing mobile airwaves.
Shrivastava said the recently launched unlimited 3G scheme for Rs 1,099 was one of the key reasons for the increase in demand for mobile data on the BSNL network. The plan offers unlimited access to 3G without any speed restriction for a period of 30 days.
In 2012, data usage on the BSNL network was around 80 TB. After the recent unlimited 3G Internet scheme, we have seen a sudden jump in data usage. In July, it was around 279 TB, which has now gone up to 353 TB,” Shrivastava said.
He said that average data download per customer under the plan had been around 2.2 GB, which means 66 GB per customer in a month. This corresponds to storing of around 100 Bollywood movies in a month in medium resolution on smartphones.
