BSNL to invest Rs 100 crore in TN to help 55,000 landline connections to migrate to Nexgen network

Chennai:

BSNL will invest Rs 100 crore to help nearly 55 thousand Bharat
Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) landline connections in Tamil Nadu to
migrate to next generation network of BSNL, according to BSNL director
N K Gupta.

The next generation network (NGN) of BSNL will allows users to make
video calls through landline phones, do multi-media video
conferencing, transfer calls from landline to mobiles and vice versa.

Gupta said that migration of land line connections to next generation
network in the state is part of BSNL plan to invest Rs 1,000 crore in
upgrading its network with NGN technology.

He said that BSNL will also provide Skype facility and set up Wi-Fi
hotspots at tourist places under this initiative. “We have already
started it in Bangalore and Chennai would soon have it.

He said the wi-fi facility would be provided in Shore Temple in
Mahabalipuram in next five to six months after getting the clearances
from Archaeological Survey of India.

To a query on BSNL’s initiative to revive its sick factories, Gupta
said that the unit in Mumbai is being taken up for manufacturing
batteries. The other sick factories have till now got no takers. These
factories have been manufacturing internal equipments of BSNL as well
as SIMs.

Gupta was here to inaugurate the fourth Internet Data Centre in
Chennai. The data centre's infrastructure facility is provided by
data centre infrastructure firm CtrlS. "We will be hosting services
for applications besides cloud computing,” said founder and CEO
Sridhar Pinnapureddy. The Data Centre has already evoked interest
among ELCOT and other companies, said Gupta