Indian telco BSNL eyes 2.2 crore mobile subscribers by next fiscal

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Indian telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has planned to gain around 22 million cell phone subscribers in the next fiscal along with its plan to enter the field of mobile banking and advertising space.

BSNL currently had 8.5 lakh 3G mobile subscribers and according to R. K. Aggarwal Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited’s Director, a target of 22 million mobile connections will be kept by the company next year (2010-11) including 20 million 2G connections and two million 3G.

The current subscriber number of BSNL is expected to go up to one million by next month-end while the average revenue of BSNL is 40% more than their 2G counterparts per user from 3G subscribers.