HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh Circle of Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) plans to add 15 lakh more mobile connections to its existing CellOne customer base of 18.4 lakh, apart from dishing out IPTV through broadband - Internet, cable television and video on demand within three to four months.

Speaking to media persons after inaugurating a new Customer Care Portal - www.ap.bsnl.co.in on the occasion of the World Telecom Day here on Thursday, Chief General Manager, Andhra Pradesh Telecom Circle, S. Ramalingam said infrastructural expansion and improved customer care would be accorded priority.

New cell sites in 700 places at a cost of Rs.700 crore aimed at covering all the 1, 026 mandals in the State was their target, he said. Currently, the BSNL has a market share of 18 to 20 per cent.

Mobile connection would be given to all villages of 1,000 population and above. The Customer Care Portal that became operational in the Andhra Pradesh circle from Thursday would facilitate customers to register online for all of BSNL services, he said.

Free call schemes

Unlimited free call schemes earlier valid only in Hyderabad, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam are now available to all land line/WLL customers.

The new schemes Plan 399, 599 and 899 were introduced with unlimited free calls to BSNL fixed/WLL within the short distance charging area with monthly fixed charges.

On IPTV, P.S.R. Krishna, Principal General Manager, Hyderabad Telecom District, said, "At present equipment validation is going on to offer internet, cable TV and video on demand services and Goldstone, the content provider for Hyderabad, is setting up a tower at Charlapalli.

4 lakh connections

The target is to give four lakh high speed broad band connections by the end of the current fiscal."

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