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DoT has the following PSUs under its administrative control: a) Bharat
Sanchar Nigam Limtied (BSNL); b) Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited
(MTNL); c) ITI Limited; d) Telecommunications Consultants India Limited
(TCIL); e) Bharat Broadband Network Limited (BBNL); f) Hemisphere Properties
India Limited (HPIL).
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), fully owned by Government of India,
formed in October 2000, provides telecom services across the length and breadth
of the country excluding Delhi and Mumbai. BSNL is providing all types of
telecom services namely telephone services on landline, WLL and GSM mobile,
broadband, internet, leased circuits and long distance telecom services. Rural
telephony is one of its focus areas. BSNL also pays special emphasis on
development of telecommunication facilities in North-Eastern region and in
tribal areas as well as in the LWE affected areas.
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), set up in 1986, is a Navratna
PSU and provides telecommunication facilities in India's key metros - Delhi
and Mumbai. MTNL is the principal provider of fixed-line telecommunication
service in these two metropolitan cities, and for GSM mobile services in four
peripheral towns of Noida, Gurgaon, Faridabad and Ghaziabad along with
Delhi city and the areas falling under the Mumbai Municipal Corporation, New
Mumbai Corporation and Thane Municipal Corporation along with Mumbai
city, also come under the jurisdiction of the company. MTNL is providing triple
play services i.e., voice, high speed internet and IPTV on its broadband network.
ITI Limited
ITI Limited was established in 1948, to supply telecom equipments to the then
telecom service provider, DoT. ITI started its operations in Bangalore in 1948,
which were further extended to other areas by setting up manufacturing plants
at Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, Naini, Rae Bareli and Mankapur in Uttar
Pradesh, and Palakkad in Kerala. All the manufacturing plants are accreditied
with ISO 9001-2000 standards. The establishment of these plants at various
locations was aimed not only at the augmentation of manufacturing capacity
but also at the development of social infrastructure.
Telecommunications Consultants India Limited
Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL) was set-up in 1978 with
the main objective to provide world class technology in all fields of
telecommunications and information technology to excel in its operations in
overseas and in the domestic markets by developing proper marketing strategies,
to acquire state of the art technology on a continuing basis and to maintain
leadership. It has diversified into cyber parks, intelligent buildings, cyber and
smart cities and upgradation of legacy networks by focusing on broadband