MTNL to add 2 million subscribers in two cities (India)

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Addition of two million lines each in New Delhi and Mumbai has been planned by Indian state-run telecom company Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd on its global system for mobile communications technology.

Addition of 200 telecom towers in New Delhi and 291 towers in Mumbai has also been planned by the company during the current fiscal year that ends March 31. Equipment to set up 500,000 additional broadband lines in New Delhi and Mumbai would be installed by MTNL.

According to junior Telecommunications Minister, Gurudas Kamat, out of the total two million, one million GSM capacities has already been commissioned in Delhi and Mumbai each, and remaining is under installation. Currently, MTNL has 784,000 broadband users in the two cities.