BSNL upgrades its broadband speed from 512 Kbps to 2 Mbps

NEW DELHI: India's telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad announced the upgradation of BSNL landline broadband speed from existing 512 kbps to 2mbps. The new plan would be effective from October 1, this year.

With this, BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) landline broadband customers can get a minimum internet speed of 2 megabits per second as against existing speed of 512 kilobits per second on their existing plans. The company has more than one crore broadband users in India.

"This is another major service offering from BSNL for the benefits of customers in continuation to offering free night calling from BSNL landline to all operator network from 9 pm to 7 am and free incoming roaming services for its mobile customers," said the statement from Ministry of Communications & Information Technology.

The company is also offering 1Gb free e-mail box to their customers up from earlier 50 Mb mail box. Currently, BSNL has 12 crore customers across the country.

“#BSNL redefines broadband in India. Now minimum internet speed offered by BSNL will be increased from 512kbps to 2Mbps. #digitalindia,” said Prasad on his social media account.

With this upgradation, BSNL customers can access / surf the internet including social network websites like Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc. at high speed.

BSNL is the first service provider to provide the Broadband Access to the country. BSNL launched the Broadband services over its landline in India in 2005 with speed of 256kbps and above over  Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) based IP infrastructure in urban as well as rural areas.

BSNL since then is constantly working for increasing the broadband speed for the enhanced experience of customer in urban as well as rural areas as envisaged in New Telecom Policy 2012.

Now, BSNL offers Broadband services with various plans ranging from 2 mbps to 100 mbps speed using ADSL/VDSL and fiber based GPON technology in a affordable price range. BSNL is currently having around 10 million broadband customers including about 1.1  million rural customers.

This up-gradation shall enhance customer experience and is expected to attract new subscribers for BSNL Broadband.

Rao Inderjeet Singh MOS for Planning & MOS for Defence (Independent charge) . Anupam Srivastav CMD BSNL, N K Gupta Director (CFA), Sujata Ray Director (HR) BSNL Board and R C Arya CGM Haryana circle were also present at the the announcement meet.