BSNL launches 3G mobile services
Chennai | Friday, Nov 20 2009 IST
 

The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) today announced the commercial launch of its 3G mobile services.

At a function held at the Anna Road Telephone exchange, BSNL CGM (Southern Telecom Projects) P R Ananthan, launched the services in Chennai.

The launch of the third generation mobile service enables a range of upgraded services, including rich voice, data and video services, to the subscribers. The 3G makes possible video streaming applications such as Live TV, movie downloads, high speed data download on mobile phones with 3G services enabled. BSNL Officials said callers could also see each other on their mobile phone screens. The new service would offer data speed of 2 Mbps against 144 Kbps available now over the GPRS and EDGE enabled mobile networks.

It may be recalled that Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi had on February 22 formally launched the service by making the first call to Union Minister for Communication and IT A Raja.

However, the the services were launched commercially today. BSNL, the first mobile company to launch the service in Chennai, would be investing over Rs 2,700 crore to provide 3G service in important cities, commercially important towns and all the district headquarters.

-- (UNI) -- 20MS50.xml

 

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