Mr Maran is desperate to show something for his ministry. His broadband “revolution” has fallen flat with allmost insipid conversions from dial up; almost next to nil value added services and massive disconnections where Airtel is stepping in.
Yet, Maran wants to carry on with his suicidal mission for One India. In all probability, the local call pulses would be drastically reduced, create hordes of confusion and hit the present revenue sharing with the independent telephone booth operators.
I really doubt whether the increased volumes would actually be able to recoup the losses. If I have to talk for a certain period of time, I would do so regardless of the present structure. Still, it remains to be seen as to how the things would work out.
They have already missed the “deadlines” with the boffins in the BSNL and MTNL twiddling their thumbs.
Mr Maran, if you really want grassroots telecom revolution, shunt out the Access Deficit Charge. We as ordinary consumers are forced to subsidise utterly useless organisations like BSNL; in a way almost being penalised for it’s non performance. Why?
More reports on Zee Business and The Statesman.
This content is published under the Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Related posts:
- Indian Telecom: Hassles galore The mobile party isn’t really happening. With these omnious words I start off my rants for the new year. While...
- How Indian Telecom is being subverted Foreign Direct Investment seems to be manna frm heaven in India. I d agree to an extent about the inflow...
- Insanities in Indian Telecom Insanities in Indian Telecom Much has happened in the past few months. I could sit back and report on every...
- Talking about idiocies in the Indian Telecom scene Talking about idiocies in the Indian Telecom scene There have been idiocies enough in the Indian Telecom scene. I came...
- A Few Questions on Indian Telecom A Few Questions on Indian Telecom This little anecdote goes about 6 years back. I was studying a remote corner...
- Reliance, Tata and Indian Telecom Reliance, Tata and Indian Telecom The dust seems to be settling now. Reliable media reports have indicated that patch up...
- Indian Telecom: News I have decided to add a couple of news reports appearing in the media. The basic relevance here is to...
- More Mess in Indian Telecom More Mess in Indian Telecom The recent cabinet decision for the hike in the FDI needs to be put in...
- Future Trends in Indian Telecom Future Trends in Indian Telecom Given the pace of expansion of telecom, it is very hard to predict the future...
- Advertising Trends in Indian Telecom Advertising Trends in Indian Telecom The way telecom firms advertise, gives an approximate idea about the telecom trends. I would...

Gana, you made a valid point. However, it would be difficult to quantify thee exact revenues after this is introduced; if you read the ZEE report, there in it's mentioned that BSNL estimates the losses to be around 5000 crores. That's what prompted me to write back.
Individual experiences cannot be generalised. This is the trap I have to avoid on a continual basis.
This is indeed a fallacy that more people would use it as a result of falling rates. The total cost of ownership needs to be factored in.
- spam
- offensive
- disagree
- off topic
Like