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BSNL to provide international roaming from New Year

Jalandhar Dec. 11. Announcing a new year bonanza for its mobile subscribers, the chairman-cum-managing director of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited ( BSNL), Prithipal Singh, today said they would get international roaming facility by January 2004.

``As a new year gift, the BSNL will provide international roaming facility to its mobile subscribers by next month and tests for the same have already been conducted successfully,''Mr. Singh told reporters here. He said the north roaming facility for pre-paid subscribers was also under consideration. He said that to promote fixed line connections, more value-added services, including SMS and broad-band facility, would be introduced soon.

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