Lok Sabha Question No. 327 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-12-12
Subject: Profits of BSNL
Ministry: COMMUNICATIONS
Asked by: PARVESH SAHIB SINGH

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 327 TO BE ANSWERED ON 12 th   DECEMBER, 2018

## PROFITS OF BSNL

327. SHRI PARVESH SAHIB SINGH:

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS be pleased to state:

- (a) total annual profits of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) from its telecommunication and broadband services for last ten years;
- (b) the  steps  taken  by  the  Government  to  make  BSNL  competitive  with  highly  expanding market of telecommunication; and
- (c) respective share of BSNL in India's telecommunication and broadband service market?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE (IC) OF THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS & MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (SHRI MANOJ SINHA)

- (a) Profit and Loss of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) for the last ten financial years are as under:
- (b) Department of Telecom (DoT) is utilising the strength and competence of BSNL to implement  a  number  of  important  projects  such  as  providing  mobile  connectivity  in  2199 identified locations in Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected areas, implementation of comprehensive telecom development plan for Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep Islands  through  augmentation  of  satellite  connectivity/bandwidth,  Optical  Fibre  Cable  based Network for  Defence  Services  (NFS  Project),  execution  of  BharatNet  Project,  comprehensive

|   S.No. | Financial Year   | From Telecommunication services (including Broadband Services)   |
|---------|------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
|       1 | 2008-2009        | 575                                                              |
|       2 | 2009-2010        | (1,823)                                                          |
|       3 | 2010-2011        | (6,384)                                                          |
|       4 | 2011-2012        | (8850)                                                           |
|       5 | 2012-2013        | (7884)                                                           |
|       6 | 2013-2014        | (7019)                                                           |
|       7 | 2014-2015        | (8234)                                                           |
|       8 | 2015-2016        | (4859)                                                           |
|       9 | 2016-2017        | (4793)                                                           |
|      10 | 2017-2018        | (7992)                                                           |

Telecom Development Plan for the North-Eastern  Region for provision of mobile services in uncovered  villages  in  Arunachal  Pradesh  and  two  districts  of  Assam,  implementation  of transmission  media  plan  for  North  Eastern  Region,  Submarine  Optical  Fibre  Project  for providing connectivity to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, setting up of 25000 Wi-Fi Hotspots at Rural Telephone Exchanges of BSNL and setting up of Satellite Gateway

This improves the capacity utilisation of the organisation, enhances and diversifies the revenue  generating  avenues  while  at  the  same  time  facilitating  the  fulfilment  of  Government objectives.   BSNL has also been encouraged to take measures such as ;

-  augmentation of GSM Radio Capacity / upgradation of BSNL mobile network in its areas, mobile equipments are being deployed progressively in BSNL network.
-  PhVIII.4 mobile expansion project is under rollout which envisages introducing 4G services  in  BSNL.  This  will  also  increase  GSM  Radio  capacity,  mobile  coverage and provide faster data connectivity.
-  To improve quality of wireline telephone network BSNL will replace Legacy Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) switches to Next Generation Network (NGN) which support different kind of services i.e. voice, video and data. With migration to NGN,  customer  will  get  enhanced  Value  Added  Services  on  wire  line  like Personalized  Ring  Back  Tone,  Multi  Media  Video  Conferencing,  IP  Centrex, Limited Fixed Mobile Telephony (LFMT) and Fixed Mobile convergence(FMC), etc. This  will  provide  better  facilities  to  customers  and  at  lower  maintenance  cost  to BSNL.
-  For creation of a Super Express Highway across the country and Super Express Transport Network with 200 GBPS line capacity connecting 47 state Capitals and important cities, work in 45 cities has  already been completed.
-  Routers  have  been  installed  and  commissioned  where  by  IP-MPLS  network  has increased from 106 cities to 205 cities providing connectivity for broadband, NGN 2G/3G requirements.
- (c) Share of BSNL in telecommunication and broadband market is as under:

|   S.No. | As on      |   Telecommunication Market (including Broadband services) |
|---------|------------|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|       1 | 31.03.2009 |                                                        19 |
|       2 | 31.03.2010 |                                                        16 |
|       3 | 31.03.2011 |                                                        14 |
|       4 | 31.03.2012 |                                                        13 |
|       5 | 31.03.2013 |                                                        14 |
|       6 | 31.03.2014 |                                                        12 |
|       7 | 31.03.2015 |                                                         9 |
|       8 | 31.03.2016 |                                                        10 |
|       9 | 31.03.2017 |                                                        10 |
|      10 | 31.03.2018 |                                                        10 |

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