National telecom backbone Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has achieved a new milestone in SIM sales in the month of March 2016. As per the latest information, the PSU activated a total of 2.3 million new mobile connections during March 2016 on PAN India basis.
This is the best performance ever made by BSNL in GSM subscriber addition. BSNL plans to achieve the target of 3 million subscriber addition by June 2016 which was set by BSNL CMD Shri. Anupam Srivastava.
The previous record set by BSNL in SIM sales was in the month previous months of 2016 i.e., in January 2016 and February 2016. The PSU added 2 million mobile customers each in January and February of 2016. Out of the 22 telecom circles, 14 of them achieved more than 100% achievement in SIM sales during March 2016.
The best performing BSNL telecom circles in SIM sales during March 2016 are – Himachal Pradesh (196%), Bihar (162%), Rajasthan (150%), Gujarat (116%) & Andhra Pradesh (114%).
Performance made by BSNL Telecom Circles in SIM sales in March 2016
| Telecom Zone | Telecom Circle | Target for March 2016 | Achievement in March 2016 | % Achievement |
| East | Andaman & Nicobar | 4,900 | 5,454 | 111 |
| Assam | 37,500 | 32,346 | 86 | |
| Bihar | 1,07,000 | 1,73,557 | 162 | |
| Jharkhand | 53,500 | 51,057 | 95 | |
| Kolkata | 10,700 | 11,346 | 106 | |
| North East I | 24,100 | 19,775 | 82 | |
| North East II | 24,100 | 26,130 | 108 | |
| Orissa | 1,28,400 | 1,29,276 | 101 | |
| West Bengal | 21,400 | 20,300 | 95 | |
| North | Punjab | 80,300 | 89,772 | 112 |
| Haryana | 85,600 | 89,265 | 104 | |
| Himancal Pradesh | 37,500 | 73,377 | 196 | |
| Rajasthan | 1,07,000 | 1,60,187 | 150 | |
| Jammu & Kashmir | 21,400 | 17,583 | 82 | |
| Uttar Pradesh (W) | 1,07,000 | 1,08,067 | 101 | |
| Uttar Pradesh (E) | 2,14,000 | 2,22,442 | 104 | |
| Uttrakhand | 23,600 | 19,712 | 84 | |
| South | Andhra Pradesh | 1,87,300 | 2,13,520 | 114 |
| Chennai | 19,300 | 15,315 | 79 | |
| Tamil Nadu | 2,03,300 | 2,06,946 | 102 | |
| Kerala | 1,49,800 | 1,47,387 | 98 | |
| Karnataka | 1,33,800 | 1,01,754 | 76 | |
| West | Gujarat | 96,300 | 1,11,826 | 116 |
| Maharashtra | 1,98,000 | 1,64,452 | 83 | |
| Madhya Pradesh | 96,300 | 80,853 | 84 | |
| Chhattisgarh | 37,500 | 34,545 | 92 | |
| Grand Total | 22,09,600 | 23,26,244 | 105.28 |
From these figures, it is very much clear that the bold and industry first decisions taken by BSNL management like ‘FREE All India Roaming’ is getting tremendous response from people throughout the country. Revival of BSNL can be easily achieved with such bold and customer oriented offers.
FREE All India Roaming is available to both Voice & Data services for all BSNL mobile customers. Free Roaming and Lowest 3G Data Tariff are the attractions of BSNL Mobile Services. More and more new customers are being added to BSNL Network from other operators through Mobile Number Portability (MNP) after the introduction of Full Mobile Number Portability (FMNP) / National MNP.
Dear readers, please share your views and opinions about this wonderful performance made by BSNL in GSM subscriber addition via comments with us.
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Please also post landline subscription data also.