Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited is a
is the India's largest telecommunication company with 24% market
share as on March 31, 2008.
BSNL is India's oldest and largest
Communication Service Provider (CSP). Currently has a customer base
of 73 million as of June 2008.
It has footprints throughout India
except for the metropolitan cities of Mumbai and New Delhi which are
managed by MTNL.
As on March 31, 2008 BSNL
commanded
*a customer base
of 31.55 million Wireline
*4.58 million
CDMA-WLL and
*36.21 million GSM Mobile
subscribers.
BSNL's earnings for the Financial
Year ending March 31, 2007 stood at INR 397.15b (US$ 9.67 b) with net
profit of INR 78.06b (US$ 1.90 billion).
*BSNL is a is the India's largest
telecommunication company with 24% market share as on March 31, 2008.
Today, BSNL is India's largest
Telco and one of the largest Public Sector Undertaking with estimated
market value of $ 100 Billion.
The company is planning an IPO
with in 6 months to offload 10% to public in the Rs 300-400 range
valuing the company at over $100 billion.
Its
headquarters:
Bharat Sanchar Bhawan,
Harish Chandra Mathur Lane,
Janpath, New Delhi.
