BSNL Launches Wi-Fi Roaming for its Subscribers, 5G Network to Start Next Year

Government telecom company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has started many new services in the last few months. In this series, the company has launched Wi-Fi roaming service across the country for its Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) subscribers. With this, BSNL’s FTTH subscribers will be able to connect to Wi-Fi hotspots across the country.

With this service, the company’s subscribers will be able to get internet connectivity even while traveling and their data costs will reduce. With this, they will be able to access BSNL Wi-Fi hotspots without any extra charge. Once registered, subscribers will be able to easily locate and connect to the company’s Wi-Fi roaming network. Earlier this week, BSNL had informed about launching the first fiber based intranet service. This TV service has been started in selected areas of the country. Last month, BSNL introduced this service called IFTV with its new logo and six new features. The company’s fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network will be used for this service.

With the new IFTV service, BSNL customers in Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu will be able to watch more than 500 live TV channels in high streaming quality. Apart from this, it will also offer pay TV content and other live TV services. The data used for streaming in live TV services of private telecom companies Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio is deducted from the monthly quota of the customers. This will not happen in BSNL’s IFTV service. The company said that the data used for TV streaming will be separate from the customers’ data packs and will not be deducted from the FTTH pack. For this BSNL will offer unlimited data. Live TV service will be available to the company’s FTTH customers at no extra cost.

BSNL has also started testing 5G network. BSNL aims to launch one lakh 4G sites by the end of the current financial year. 5G networks of big private telecom companies like Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel are present in large parts of the country. The central government plans to bring BSNL into profit soon. The company’s 5G network is being tested in collaboration with the Center for Development of Telecommunications (C-DoT).