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G Performance

As on March 2012, BSNL’s 3G services is available in 963 cities and to all its mobile GSM customers.

BPA Plan

BSNL has already launched BWA (WiMax) services in rural areas to provide wireless broadband connectivity to rural CSCs and village panchayats for government programs. Further, BSNL has also provided WiMax services in 169 towns of Oerala and 50 towns of Punjab circle.

Fixed Broadband Performance

The total number of broadband connections is approximately 9 mn and this was possible because of timely arrangement of inventory and introduction of various innovative value added services like games on demand, music on demand, and education on demand in rural areas.

Update on Nnterprise Business

The enterprise business has been growing in the past few years as we have made it a separate business unit. In FY12, we achieved revenues of 2,985 crore. Further, we have penetrated 360 gold and platinum accounts in FY12. For FY13, the company is looking at revenues of

3,561 crore.

Tower SUaring Agreements

BSNL has signed master service agreement (MSA) with 9 operators—airtel, Aircel, RCom, Videocon, Etisalat DB, Loop Telecom, Sistema Shyam, Idea Cellular, and Vodafone for leasing out BSNL towers on a pan-India basis. As on March 31st, 2012, BSNL has leased out 1,441 number of sites to other service providers.

Non-voice Contribution

BSNL earns about 120 crore per month from pure VAS, P2P, and data and this contributes around 13%.

Innovative Business Model

For FY13, the company is focusing on utilization of land and buildings for call centers/BPO/software park, tower monetization, utilization of telecom factory infrastructure for revenue generation, broadband connectivity to schools, establishing Wi-Fi network with the help of partners, and leasing out CDMA EV-DO network.

NOFN Project

BSNL has 700,000 Rkm of OFC routes countrywide and a major part is in the rural areas. This network largely overlaps all other fiber networks of various operators and is spread out in most of the 6,500 blocks of the country. BSNL’s fiber connectivity is already available in about 60,000 panchayats out of 2.5 lakh panchayats in the country. Recently, the government has identified Arain Block in Ajmer district for a pilot roll out in its 30 panchayats.