BSNL worker union sends letter to IT minister, complains of delay in TCS-backed 4G community

The worker union of state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Restricted (BSNL) has reportedly despatched a letter to Communications minister Ashwini Vaishnaw in search of pressing intervention. In keeping with a report in Financial Instances, the BSNL Workers Union (BSNLEU) lately despatched a letter to Vishnaw to complain concerning the fall in subscriber base.
BSNL continues to lose subscriber base following the holding up of subsequent era (4G) community deployment by a Tata group firm, an worker group reportedly mentioned. Within the letter to Vishnaw, dated January 17, 2023, BSNLEU mentioned, “BSNL is going through such a dire state of affairs solely due to its incapacity to offer high-speed information service (4G) to its clients. Whereas Reliance Jio and Airtel have already rolled out their 5G service all through the nation. BSNL is struggling to compete with them with 2G and 3G applied sciences.”
“The launching of BSNL’s 4G service is getting terribly delayed and the identical is nowhere in sight,” the letter added. BSNL operates Mahanagar Phone Nigam Restricted (MTNL) networks in two metropolitans – Delhi and Mumbai.
“We really feel that it’s our bounden responsibility to convey the alarming state of affairs prevailing in BSNL to your form discover,” BSNLEU common secretary P Abhimanyu in a letter to the minister mentioned, including that per the info launched by the telecom regulator, “tens of lakhs of shoppers are leaving BSNL each month,” it additional mentioned.
Greater than 75 lakh subscribers have reportedly stop the BSNL community in 2022.
TCS-led consortium deploying BSNL 4G
In Might 2023, the Group of Ministers (GoM) authorised the deployment of 1 lakh websites for the rollout of the BSNL’s 4G community by the TCS-led consortium with a 20% reservation for state-controlled ITI. BSNL had issued an tools buy order (PO) to Tata Consultancy Service (TCS), part of India’s diversified conglomerate Tata group in June final 12 months.
Mumbai-based TCS-led consortium consists of public sector agency Centre for Improvement of Telematics (C-DoT) and Bengaluru-based Tejas Networks, acquired by Tata Sons.
State-controlled telecom service supplier, earlier anticipated a 20% development in revenues following the mass availability of its 4G providers within the nation.