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BSNL to withdraw existing 22,000 WLL mobile connections across Nepal and China border

To provide better communication network BSNL has decided to withdraw over 22,000 WLL mobile connections along Nepal border from next month.

State run Telecom Company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has announced to withdraw the existing WLL connections available across the Nepal and China border villages to render the area without communication facility from next month. 


BSNL to provide alternate communication network for the people residing along Nepal and China border by installing advanced technology mobile towers to provide better services.


On this occasion a social worker Sher Singh Mahar, said, ‘People residing along the Nepal and China borders will have to depend on the Nepalese communication network if an alternate network is not made available’. 


Recently BSNL started discontinuing its WLL services where there is no revenue generation and huge revenue loss in WLL segment.  


As per latest information, BSNL’s Chief General Manager of BSNL Uttarakhand said, ‘We’re scrapping the WLL mobile service prevalent in some parts of the state. But we are giving an alternative GSM services to the customer who already subscribed to WLL services’. 


He also added, ‘Over 60 villages, 20 police and SSB border posts at the Nepal border in Pithoragarh and Champawat districts would be without communication from April 1 and no other communication alternative would be available’.


However, BSNL had a limited capacity and private companies were not allowed to install their towers in these border areas to provide communication services.

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