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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch BSNL’s 4G network today. This network will be rolled out on 98 thousand sites across the country. This network is fully prepared on indigenous technology.
As soon as the service is launched, all the telecom operators of India will be equipped with 4G. Companies like Jio, Airtel, VI are already on 4G and 5G networks.
With this, India will be included in the list of selected countries that make their own telecom technology. India is the fifth country after Denmark, Sweden, South Korea and China.
Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia addressed the media on Friday on the occasion of completion of 25 years of BSNL.
Fast 4G internet will be found everywhere in village and city
Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has posted a post with this. He wrote- On Saturday, the Prime Minister will unveil two historical incentives …
- BSNL has developed his own 4G technology, which is not foreign but indigenous. It will be installed at 98,000 places. Meaning, the village-city will get a faster 4G internet everywhere, without any foreign help.
- India’s first such network will be launched through ‘Digital India Nidhi’, where no corner of the country will be deprived of 4G. Whether it is a mountain, forest or remote village, all will be connected to the 4G network.
BSNL customers are continuously decreasing
According to the July 2025 data from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), BSNL and MTNL are constantly losing subscribers. In July, 1.01 lakh customers of BSNL were reduced, while MTNL’s subscribers also decreased. Now the market share of public sector telecom companies is less than 8%.
According to the report, Jio has added the highest 4.83 lakh new mobile customers in July. Airtel added 4.64 lakh new mobile users in July. While the subscribers of Vodafone Idea have seen a decline. Vodafone Idea (VI) has reduced 3.59 lakh mobile customers in July.
BSNL far behind Airtel and Jio
PM Modi has launched the 6G network roadmap. 6G service is expected to start in India by 2030. In this case, BSNL is lagging far behind. The company is preparing to launch 5G service with 4G.
In January-2023, Union IT and Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said that BSNL will start its 5G service by April 2024. At the same time, Airtel and Jio launched 5G service in India in October-2022.
Why did BSNL do such a condition?
- After the establishment in 2000, BSNL officials wanted to start mobile service as soon as possible to challenge private operators, but they did not get the necessary government consent.
- The period of not getting government consent as soon as possible continued. Between 2006–12, where the capacity of BSNL increased slightly, private operators went far ahead.
- People left BSNL and turned to private companies due to network congestion and other problems.
- When the 3G spectrum was auctioned in 2010, BSNL did not participate due to being a government company. Later BSNL got spectrum at the same price at which private companies got.
- BSNL also had to pay huge amount for the Wireless Technology broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum. This had a direct impact on the economic condition of BSNL.
- The landline connection declined rapidly as the mobile revolution in the country gained momentum. In 2006-07, BSNL had 3.8 crore landline customers, which declined to 1.6 crore in 2014-15.
- BSNL was kept out even when the 4G spectrum was auctioned. Due to this delay, while private companies have rolled out 5G in the country, BSNL got stuck on 4G.
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