TN police enhance BSNL subscription base

Chennai:

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has added 73,000 new mobile connections
this quarter and the subscriber base is likely to cross more than 1.2
lakh next month due to new subscriptions from Tamil Nadu Police.

A BSNL senior general manager Leelashankari denied reports that the
subscription base had fallen in this quarter adding that it is going
to add one lakh Tamil Nadu police connections by August this year
under the Closed User group (CUG) connections.

“There are also plans to include the family members of police
personnel under the CUG network,” she said. “This would add another
two to three lakh connections,” she added.

Interestingly, during the last financial year it has not been smooth
sailing for BSNL Chennai whose subscription base dwindled drastically.
Last year the the subscription base of BSNL mobile connections in
Chennai was 14.06 lakh.

“The subscription base fell 1.47 lakh as we had done away with one
63,000 ineffective connections,” she said.

These connections were the ones that were hardly used by BSNL, she said.

This year till now we have 14.79 lakh connections and this is likely
to go up by few more lakh