Bharat Sanchar Nigam Restricted (BSNL), a state-run telecom operator in India, is in talks with main tech corporations together with Microsoft and Google to monetise its land belongings. The telecom operator is trying to monetise its land belongings to lift funds for rolling out 4G and 5G. BSNL shouldn’t be solely trying to promote but additionally lease out its land to massive tech corporations. These tech corporations can use the land parcels for organising cellular edge computing websites.
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BSNL was directed by the central authorities to monetise land belongings as part of the aid bundle. Nevertheless, the pace at which the federal government had requested for the work to be carried out has not been complied with. BSNL is promoting and renting out its land parcels together with the workplace buildings and phone exchanges that aren’t required. Other than the tech corporations, BSNL can also be taking a look at different sector gamers akin to wind and photo voltaic vitality to lease/promote its land belongings, based on a TNN report.
The federal government is pushing BSNL to make a U-turn with the rollout of 4G in 1 lakh websites. A lot just lately, the state-run telco confirmed that it has rolled out 41,000 4G websites. BSNL additionally obtained a revamped brand and launched seven new companies that are set to assist the corporate compete with the non-public telecom operators.
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With probably the most reasonably priced tariffs, BSNL would be the solely telecom operator to have a PAN-India 4G community that’s constructed on Indian know-how. The CMD of BSNL, Robert J Ravi has already confirmed that BSNL is not going to improve the tariffs anytime quickly for the shoppers. This has additionally helped the telco in including new prospects within the months of July and August 2024.
