09-11-2012, 11:59 AM
A Project of RATIO ANALYSIS AT BSNL
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Company Profile
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. formed in October, 2000, is World's 7th largest Telecommunications Company providing comprehensive range of telecom services in India: Wire line, CDMA mobile, GSM Mobile, Internet, Broadband, Carrier service, MPLS-VPN, VSAT, Vo IP services, IN Services etc. Within a span of five years it has become one of the largest public sector units in India.
BSNL has installed Quality Telecom Network in the country and now focusing on improving it, expanding the network, introducing new telecom services with ICT applications in villages and wining customer's confidence. Today, it has about 47.3 million line basic telephone capacity, 4 million WLL capacity, 20.1 Million GSM Capacity, more than 37382 fixed exchanges, 18000 BTS, 287 Satellite Stations, 480196 Rkm of OFC Cable, 63730 Rkm of Microwave Network connecting 602 Districts, 7330 cities/towns and 5.5 Lakhs villages.
BSNL is the only service provider, making focused efforts and planned initiatives to bridge the Rural-Urban Digital Divide ICT sector. In fact there is no telecom operator in the country to beat its reach with its wide network giving services in every nook & corner of country and operates across India except Delhi & Mumbai. Whether it is inaccessible areas of Siachen glacier and North-eastern region of the country. BSNL serves its customers with its wide bouquet of telecom services.
BSNL is numero uno operator of India in all services in its license area. The company offers vide ranging & most transparent tariff schemes designed to suite every customer.
BSNL cellular service, CellOne, has more than 17.8 million cellular customers, garnering 24 percent of all mobile users as its subscribers. That means that almost every fourth mobile user in the country has a BSNL connection. In basic services, BSNL is miles ahead of its rivals, with 35.1 million Basic Phone subscribers i.e. 85 per cent share of the subscriber base and 92 percent share in revenue terms.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
With the convergence of technologies, catalyzed by the global IT revolution the world is witnessing change as never before in recorded history. In the realm of telecommunication, the change and the pace of it are more pronounced - from basic telephony to voice, video and data services, and from bandwidth on demand to virtual private networks, IT is making the entire plethora of BSNL's telecom services expand. And, being rapidly implemented as the backbone for running customer-friendly services:
• FRS (Fault Repair System), DQ (Directory Enquiry), IVRS (Interactive Voice Response System) and accounting and billing systems are already operational at BSNL.
• DOTSOFT, an integrated commercial & FRS package being inducted countrywide, to provide single window convenience.
• Telephone Directory on CD ROM and on the internet.
• Infrastructure, technology and expertise for full service support to e-commerce enterprises.
DURING FINANCIAL YEAR
BSNL Delays $6.5 Billion GSM Network Tender
In a move which probably won’t surprise industry watchers, India's Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has decided to delay the date for opening its monster US$6.5 billion tender for GSM infrastructure kit. The bids were due to be opened on July 16 - but will now not be opened until August 30th. BSNL has a track record of delaying, amending and renegotiating its GSM network tenders - but this time put the blame firmly at the flood of interest in the tender.
A senior company official said, “We got no less than 21,000 queries from the vendors after the draft tender was put on the BSNL Web site. We need time to address their clarifications. Therefore, the 93-million line tender, which was supposed to be opened on July 16, will now open on August 30.”
The US$6.5 billion price tag is based on a US$70 cost per GSM line - and the tender is for a total of 93 million GSM lines. The highly convoluted 13 million GSM lines tender last year was won by Ericsson who won the bid with an offer at US$90 per line. The government, which owns BSNL, has however capped the network expenditure for this financial year at US$4.7 billion - of which at least US$500 million has already been allocated to a CDMA contract.
The original tender document stated that only companies with a turnover exceeding US$2 billion for the past two years and deployments of at least 20 million GSM lines - excluding any prior sales to BSNL - could participate in the contract bid. This did however still permit China's ZTE and Hawaii to tender for the contract, both of whom had been refused permission to bid in earlier contra0cts.
While the contract is for 93 million GSM lines, no one bidder will be able to win more than 50 million lines - and will be committed to offering replacement parts and maintenance for at least seven years. The tender document splits the allocation into four sections - three of 25 million lines for the North, West and
South - with 18 million lines for the East. Of the total, some 21 million lines must be provisioned for 3G services as well as GSM - which is technically not an issue, but it would push up the costs for the suppliers.