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The Hindu
9 hours ago
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- The Hindu
BSNL soft-launches SIM-less, 100% home-grown 5G fixed-wireless service ‘Quantum 5G FWA'
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the government-owned telecommunications provider, has announced the launch of high speed connectivity solutions in Telangana circle, including Quantum 5G FWA (Fixed Wireless Access), Micro Data Centre and International Gateway, in Hyderabad on Wednesday. Chairman and managing director A. Robert J. Ravi said the SIM-less BSNL Q-5G (FWA) services aims to provide 100% secure, reliable internet connectivity to enterprises, businesses, gated communities and individual homes using 'home grown' 5G technology developed in collaboration with indigenous partners. Addressing customers and staff, he said the service is being launched for the first time in the country at Ameerpet exchange. 'Hyderabad's tech-savvy ecosystem makes it the perfect launch-pad for our next-generation access portfolio. It has beenbuilt on BSNL's direct-to-device platform, fully indigenous stack core with design and integration by Indian vendors under the 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' programme,' he said. With Gigabit-class speeds, it is ideal for UHD (ultra high definition) streaming, cloud gaming and remote work; the rapid install self-install gateway reaches 85% of Hyderabad households under existing BSNL tower grid with no trenching or fibre pull required. The pilot expansion will also happen in Bengaluru, Pondicherry, Visakhapatnam, Pune, Chandigarh and Gwalior by September 2025. The tariff introductory plans is ₹999 and ₹1,499 per month for 100Mbps and 300Mbps speeds, respectively. Micro data centre BSNL Micro Data Centre is a small scale self-contained data centre designed to provide localised computing resources, storage and networking as an alternative to available cloud solutions, said the CMD. These are ideal for healthcare facilities providing quick access to medical imaging and patients, manufacturing plants, retail stores etc., providing virtual servers, storage and security with option of hiring space in BSNL data centres. International Gateway is for connecting domestic telecom network to international telecom networks for quality voice, SMS and data communications assuring a seamless internet experience. Another area of technology development has been in working on 6G with government support where each mobile phone will act as an antenna, added Mr. Ravi. Chief General Manager D.M Ezhil Buddhan, Chief General Manager-Telangana Circle Ratna Kumar and other top officials were present.
The Hindu
9 hours ago
- Business
- The Hindu
BSNL building AI system to identify and correct defects in services: CMD
The BSNL is building an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based system to automatically identify a problem and correct by itself in the system. Crack teams have already been deployed at each telecom circle to check for quality issues and address customers grievances. 'We have put in indigenous technology and it takes time to stabilise. There are small issues about voice quality. We are confident of being able to come up with real good quality of network. We want our loyal customers to be patient a bit more,' said chairman and managing director A. Robert J. Ravi on Wednesday. In an exclusive interaction during the soft launch of three high speed internet services here, the CMD said that multinational companies took years to stabilise but insisted that the BSNL 4G speeds are much better than that of its competitors though it will take some time to complete the 'tuning' of the network to make it more secure for the customer. 'But once the network is tuned well, we would have developed a product that is most secure for the customer, because everything is completely under control. We want to ensure every customer is totally satisfied,' he said. 'We have 90,000 4G connections and will cross one lakh by July. We are also meeting the telecom regular parameters as we report every month. We are sure that in three months, we will be able to provide world class quality mobile and data services,' said Mr. Ravi. Apart from installing one lakh more mobile towers across the country, the public sector telecom giant has been looking at other alternatives. 'We will soon announce our new technology breakthroughs developed indigenously where quality services can be offered without tower installation. We are also looking at offering services without a SIM card and the need to change SIM cards,' he said. For now, 5G FWA will be the focus area for the next few months. 'Our maiden launch of 5G mobile services will be in Delhi in September. We are also planning something unique for 5G mobile customers,' said the CMD. Monetisation of assets has been proceeding well, doubling the previous year's performance, he added and exuded confidence about achieving targets with government support.
