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Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited employees promoting rival cos?

NAGPUR: Are employees of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) busy promoting broadband and landline services offered by rival telecom companies?

Sources have told TOI that executives of the public sector telecom operator have started advising customers to switch over to private operators for uninterrupted and better services.

"BSNL has been making tall claims about extending its broadband services to every part of the city without any problem but it has failed to attend to hundreds of complaints regarding poor connectivity," said a customer.

NEW DELHI: The industry lobby representing GSM operators such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Cellular and BSNL on Wednesday alleged that the sector regulator's latest recommendations on spectrum pricing would destroy level-playing field in the industry as they favored dual technology players like Tata Teleservices and Reliance Communications.

NEW DELHI: State-run BSNL borrowed Rs 1,320.47 crore from the market to meet capital expenditure during 2011-12, Minister of State for Communications and IT Milind Deora has said.

"BSNL has fully met its operational expenses through internal accruals during financial year 2011-12. However, for capex authorisations, market borrowings were partially resorted to, which stood at Rs 1,320.47 crore as on March 31, 2012," Deora said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.