BSNL opts franchising for BWA spectrum

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a telecommunications company which offers broad range of telecom services in India has plans to monetise its Rs 8,313.80 crore investment via franchising on securi

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Mar 14, 2011 | comments (0) |

BSNL opts franchising for BWA spectrum

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a telecommunications company which offers broad range of telecom services in India has plans to monetise its Rs 8,313.80 crore investment via franchising on securing pan-India Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) spectrum.
The company has selected franchise model on a revenue-sharing basis to use this spectrum. The company has short-listed three companies namely Teracom, Starnet and Take Solutions as its franchisees. It will be distribute BWA spectrum in their respective territories. Teracom has been given Rajasthan, Karnataka and Bihar circles, Starnet has Chennai Telecom District and Himachal Pradesh and Take Solutions has been granted rights in Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh (West) and Orissa.
According to the terms of the agreement the franchisees have to set up the WiMax network and BSNL would lay down the infrastructure like premises, towers and media connectivity.

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