Free calling at night from landline
SHILLONG: The State’s owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSN) is all set to launch next-gen network in Meghalaya on April 30.
Informing this here on Thursday, BSNL NE 1 Circle Additional General Manager N Sujatha asserted that next-gen network would benefit around four thousand users in the state.
The next-gen network is aimed at better quality broadband connectivity with the exchange migrating to Next Generation Network (NGN) which is internet protocol based.
N Sujatha said that while BSNL NE 1 Circle covers states of Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura, the dates for launching the next-gen networks are different for different states and added 4000 users in Shillong city can utilize the services from May 1 onwards depending on their up-gradation of their telephone sets.
While there will be no change in the telephone numbers and billing cycle, she said the rate for calls will also be the same except when using other facilities such as video, picture and data through session initiation protocol.
Meanwhile, BSNL said Thursday it will introduce unlimited free calling at night from its landline phones to all landline and mobile phones of all service providers across India from May 1. Sujatha said that with this, the BSNL intends to promote landline usage.
Reacting to a query on the breakdown of internet services in Shillong on Wednesday, Shantanu Ghosh, Divisional engineer(transmission), clarified that the bandwith from Shillong to Kolkata DGCL bandwitdth was snapped and it took more than 8 hours to get it restored at Siliguri.