To tackle the call drop and network issues, the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a state-owned telecom operator, will install 200 more Base Transceiver Station (BTS) towers across the state within three months.
Satyananda Naik, chief general manager of BSNL Odisha circle, told media persons here that his company has already put up 257 BTS tower for 2G network and 292 BTS tower for 3G network this year. “We are planning to put up 100 BTS towers for 2G network and another 100 for 3G network to provide better services to its customers,” he added.
He said BTS towers are available with them, but they can’t install it in particular places because of people’s resistance to mobile towers. “But we are trying to solve the network issues very soon,” he added.
The BSNL has started its work to change old sets of machineries installed at some places of Mayurbhanj and Balasore districts. “Our next plan is to convert all 2G networks into 3G. It will solve several network issues,” Naik added.
The company has announced a few pre-paid plans for new customers of the state including Kalinga-46, Odisha-100 and popular talk time and data packs. It unveiled a plan ‘Aseem’ for customers who have landline phones. As per the plan, a customer has to pay Rs 99 per year and connect his/her landline number with mobile number. When anybody calls in the landline number, it will be diverted to the mobile number automatically.
Naik said all post-paid/pre-paid mobile customers should link their Aadhaar through e-KYC verification by February 6, 2018. They can do this by visiting any nearest customer service centre or retailer point. “They have to physically present with their Aadhaar number along with their mobile for verification of OTP,” he added.
The state has 2.67 lakh landline users and 56 lakh wireless customers.
State-owned telecom firm BSNLhas placed purchase orders for 156 additional towers under a scheme to strengthen mobile network facility in areas affected by Left Wing Extremism (LWE).
The orders are worth Rs 275 crore, including capital expenditure and operational expenditure for a period of five years, BSNL chairman and managing director Anupam Shrivastava told PTI.
"The project for extension of 156 towers in Left Wing Extremism areas, is currently on. Following the completion of work on 2,199 towers, we have placed purchase orders for 156 additional towers last month, as part of the same tender," he said.
The additional towers will be installed by July 2017, he added.
"The purchase orders have already been issued and they are distributed amongst various states that suffer from LWE and divided amongst two vendors of BSNL, that is Vihaan Networks Limited and HFCL," he said.
The states include Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Chattisgarh, Maharashtra, and Andhra Pradesh.
Government has launched a scheme to install mobile towers at 2,199 locations identified by Ministry of Home Affairs in 10 States, affected by LWE, at an estimated implementation cost of Rs 3,567.58 crore.
The work for the same is being executed by BSNL and the cost for the project is borne by the government.
In a first, the Supreme court has ordered that a BSNL mobile phone tower in Gwalior shut down on the plea of a 42-year old cancer patient, reported ET Telecom on Wednesday.
This the first time that a mobile tower has been ordered to be deactivated on the grounds that the electromagnetic radiation emanating from it has caused cancer in an individual, the report added.
Harish Chand Tiwari, a domestic help who had been working in Gwalior's Dal Baazar area, had moved the apex court last year, complaining that a BSNL mobile phone tower, which was installed on the roof of the house neighbouring the one he worked in, had exposed him to constant harmful electromagnetic radiation for the past 14 years.
According to the report, Tiwari claimed before the apex court that the tower, which was illegally installed in the residential area in 2002 and was situated less than 20 metre from the house where he worked, was the cause behind his Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
The order by a bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and Navin Sinha said: "We direct that the particular mobile tower operated by BSNL in the area mentioned in the petition filed by Harish Chand Tiwari, shall be deactivated by the BSNL within seven days from today."
The development comes as the long-standing debate about the health hazards associated with cell towers continues.
Furthermore, as reported earlier, India's safety factor in such matters is 10 times stiffer than in 90 per cent countries that follow standards set by the International Commission on Non-ionising Radiation Protection. In September 2012, the Department of Telecom had reduced the permissible radiation limits for tower firms to 10 times lower than recommended by World Health Organization. It had also asked the operators to maintain a certain distance from a building, depending on the number of antennae they want to install. (Read more)
In fact, even as activists and concerned citizens continue to raise their voices against what they fear to be a health hazard, the central government in October last year had submitted in front of the apex court that there was no proof that radiation from cell towers had adverse health effects.
Also, in 2015, the Cellular Operators' Association of India (COAI) had also said that radiation from cell towers did not cause cancer.
As reported earlier, in a letter to Rajasthan legislator Ram Lal Sharma, who had raised a question in the state Assembly on the link between cancer and people living within 100 metres of mobile towers, the COAI said there were no such adverse health consequences.
Satyananda Naik, chief general manager of BSNL Odisha circle, told media persons here that his company has already put up 257 BTS tower for 2G network and 292 BTS tower for 3G network this year. “We are planning to put up 100 BTS towers for 2G network and another 100 for 3G network to provide better services to its customers,” he added.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a state-owned telecom operator, will install 200 more Base Transceiver Station (BTS) towers across the state within three months.
He said BTS towers are available with them, but they can’t install it in particular places because of people’s resistance to mobile towers. “But we are trying to solve the network issues very soon,” he added.
The BSNL has started its work to change old sets of machineries installed at some places of Mayurbhanj and Balasore districts. “Our next plan is to convert all 2G networks into 3G. It will solve several network issues,” Naik added.
The company has announced a few pre-paid plans for new customers of the state including Kalinga-46, Odisha-100 and popular talk time and data packs. It unveiled a plan ‘Aseem’ for customers who have landline phones. As per the plan, a customer has to pay Rs 99 per year and connect his/her landline number with mobile number. When anybody calls in the landline number, it will be diverted to the mobile number automatically.
Naik said all post-paid/pre-paid mobile customers should link their Aadhaar through e-KYC verification by February 6, 2018. They can do this by visiting any nearest customer service centre or retailer point. “They have to physically present with their Aadhaar number along with their mobile for verification of OTP,” he added.
The state has 2.67 lakh landline users and 56 lakh wireless customers.
BSNL buys 156 more towers for areas affected by left wing extremism
State-owned telecom firm BSNLhas placed purchase orders for 156 additional towers under a scheme to strengthen mobile network facility in areas affected by Left Wing Extremism (LWE).
The orders are worth Rs 275 crore, including capital expenditure and operational expenditure for a period of five years, BSNL chairman and managing director Anupam Shrivastava told PTI.
"The project for extension of 156 towers in Left Wing Extremism areas, is currently on. Following the completion of work on 2,199 towers, we have placed purchase orders for 156 additional towers last month, as part of the same tender," he said.
The additional towers will be installed by July 2017, he added.
"The purchase orders have already been issued and they are distributed amongst various states that suffer from LWE and divided amongst two vendors of BSNL, that is Vihaan Networks Limited and HFCL," he said.
The states include Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Chattisgarh, Maharashtra, and Andhra Pradesh.
Government has launched a scheme to install mobile towers at 2,199 locations identified by Ministry of Home Affairs in 10 States, affected by LWE, at an estimated implementation cost of Rs 3,567.58 crore.
The work for the same is being executed by BSNL and the cost for the project is borne by the government.
In a first, SC orders BSNL to shut mobile tower over cancer patient's plea
In a first, the Supreme court has ordered that a BSNL mobile phone tower in Gwalior shut down on the plea of a 42-year old cancer patient, reported ET Telecom on Wednesday.
This the first time that a mobile tower has been ordered to be deactivated on the grounds that the electromagnetic radiation emanating from it has caused cancer in an individual, the report added.
Harish Chand Tiwari, a domestic help who had been working in Gwalior's Dal Baazar area, had moved the apex court last year, complaining that a BSNL mobile phone tower, which was installed on the roof of the house neighbouring the one he worked in, had exposed him to constant harmful electromagnetic radiation for the past 14 years.
According to the report, Tiwari claimed before the apex court that the tower, which was illegally installed in the residential area in 2002 and was situated less than 20 metre from the house where he worked, was the cause behind his Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
The order by a bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and Navin Sinha said: "We direct that the particular mobile tower operated by BSNL in the area mentioned in the petition filed by Harish Chand Tiwari, shall be deactivated by the BSNL within seven days from today."
The development comes as the long-standing debate about the health hazards associated with cell towers continues.
Furthermore, as reported earlier, India's safety factor in such matters is 10 times stiffer than in 90 per cent countries that follow standards set by the International Commission on Non-ionising Radiation Protection. In September 2012, the Department of Telecom had reduced the permissible radiation limits for tower firms to 10 times lower than recommended by World Health Organization. It had also asked the operators to maintain a certain distance from a building, depending on the number of antennae they want to install. (Read more)
In fact, even as activists and concerned citizens continue to raise their voices against what they fear to be a health hazard, the central government in October last year had submitted in front of the apex court that there was no proof that radiation from cell towers had adverse health effects.
Also, in 2015, the Cellular Operators' Association of India (COAI) had also said that radiation from cell towers did not cause cancer.
As reported earlier, in a letter to Rajasthan legislator Ram Lal Sharma, who had raised a question in the state Assembly on the link between cancer and people living within 100 metres of mobile towers, the COAI said there were no such adverse health consequences.
BSNL to install 200 more BTS towers in Odisha for better service
Reviewed by Shan Paul
on
July 29, 2017
Rating:
Reviewed by Shan Paul
on
July 29, 2017
Rating:
No comments: