Patna: Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said that the call drop problem was improving with various telecom companies installing 1.24 lakh towers to mitigate the issue.
"Things are improving....private telecom operators have installed one lakh towers, while the state-owned BSNL has put in place 24,000 Base Transceiver Station (BTS) towers across the country in the past one year to improve the call drop problem," he told reporters.
Private telecom operators have decided to invest Rs 12,000 crore for installation of 60,000 more towers over the next three months, while the BSNL will install 21,000 BTS towers, the Communications and Information Technology Minister said.
The large-scale addition of new customers obviously indicated improvement in infrastructure and connectivity by the BSNL in Bihar, he said adding that its market revenue has increased 18.52 per cent in the last fiscal, while the market share in the state stood at 4.88 per cent.
He said the BSNL will provide Wi-Fi services at 100 places in Bihar and 50 of it will be in Patna itself.
"Things are improving....private telecom operators have installed one lakh towers, while the state-owned BSNL has put in place 24,000 Base Transceiver Station (BTS) towers across the country in the past one year to improve the call drop problem," he told reporters.
Private telecom operators have decided to invest Rs 12,000 crore for installation of 60,000 more towers over the next three months, while the BSNL will install 21,000 BTS towers, the Communications and Information Technology Minister said.
The large-scale addition of new customers obviously indicated improvement in infrastructure and connectivity by the BSNL in Bihar, he said adding that its market revenue has increased 18.52 per cent in the last fiscal, while the market share in the state stood at 4.88 per cent.
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He said the BSNL will provide Wi-Fi services at 100 places in Bihar and 50 of it will be in Patna itself.
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