State owed telecom service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has decided to upgrade Broadband speed to minimum 2 Mbps in the country. It was announced by Union Information Technology (IT) Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad at a function held in Gurgaon, Haryana. The speed will be at no additional cost for all its existing Broadband customers from 1 October 2015 from existing speed plans of 512 Kbps & 1 Mbps. Besides, BSNL is also going of free night calling services from its landline to all operator networks and free incoming roaming services for its mobile customers. BSNL Broadband services BSNL was the first telecom service provider in the country to provide the Broadband Access to the country. In 2005, it had launched the Broadband services in urban as well as Rural areas over its landline with minimum speed of 256kbps and above over the Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) based IP infrastructure. Since then, BSNL has constantly is increasing the broadband speed in urban as well as rural areas to meet minimum speed and quality requirements envisaged in New Telecom Policy 2012. Presently, BSNL has Broadband customer base of around 10 Million including about 1.1 Mn. Rural customers.
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