After reduction of call charges by private players, now India’s largest public telecom company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has announced to slash the call rates in STD, local and roaming that will be effective from June 11 midnight. The charges have been reduced in both versions: landline and cellular.

NEW DELHI: After beating down tariffs in the voice market, telecom & IT minister Dayanidhi Maran is set to replicate the trend in Internet services.

To do this, Maran intends to work with MTNL, BSNL and STPI to launch server hosting centres in India.

"We want traffic generated in India to terminate in India rather than be routed through a server located overseas. The costs will go down and data flow will be faster," he said.

NEW DELHI: New Year bonanza awaits the subscribers of BSNL and MTNL broadband service from January 1 - they will get 2 Mbps connection at the same rate at which they were getting a sluggish 256 Kbps till now.

Shri Dayanidhi Maran, Minister of Communications & Information Technology inaugurated the new building of MTNL “Mahanagar Doorsanchar Bhawan”, here today, in the presence of Dr. Shakeel Ahmad, Minister of State for Communications & Information Technology, Shri Nripendra Misra, Chairman of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), Shri D.S. Mathur, Secretary, Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and senior officers of DoT, TRAI, BSNL and MTNL. The Minister also inaugurated the new office of TRAI located in the same complex.

NEW DELHI: State-owned telecom majors MTNL and BSNL will offer high speed of up to 2 mbps broadband connectivity from January 2007 to its existing subscribers, who were till now getting the connection at 256 kbps.

This was announced by Communication and IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran at the inauguration of MTNL's new building here.