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State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is all set to ink its first intra-circle roaming (ICR) agreement with mobile services company Aircel, a move that will shore up its revenues.
Anupam Srivastava, chairman and managing director (CMD) of BSNL, said the two telecom companies (telcos) were "very close to signing an agreement".
"We are very close to signing an agreement with Aircel. Exchange of all documents have taken place and they (documents) have been whetted by both company's legal department. Maybe, we will soon be signing our first (ICR) agreement with Aircel," he said.
"There is no agreement signed as such (with Reliance Jio). We are testing out networks. They can use our 2G (second generation) and 3G (third generation) networks. That test has almost been done. We are doing a test on whether our customers can utilise Reliance's network. There are some interoperability issues that we are trying to sort out," said the BSNL chief.
Srivastava said the technologies of the two telcos were not compatible; "For a call or data to go from one side to the other, there has to be perfect compatibility between technology used by the two partners. That is being tested right now. We will get it sorted out soon," he said
BSNL uses multifarious technology of various telecom equipment vendors like Ericson, Nokia, Alcatel, ZTE, Huawei and others while Jio's network is mostly on Samsung.
BSNL close to inking tower-sharing pact with Aircel | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis
Anupam Srivastava, chairman and managing director (CMD) of BSNL, said the two telecom companies (telcos) were "very close to signing an agreement".
"We are very close to signing an agreement with Aircel. Exchange of all documents have taken place and they (documents) have been whetted by both company's legal department. Maybe, we will soon be signing our first (ICR) agreement with Aircel," he said.
"There is no agreement signed as such (with Reliance Jio). We are testing out networks. They can use our 2G (second generation) and 3G (third generation) networks. That test has almost been done. We are doing a test on whether our customers can utilise Reliance's network. There are some interoperability issues that we are trying to sort out," said the BSNL chief.
Srivastava said the technologies of the two telcos were not compatible; "For a call or data to go from one side to the other, there has to be perfect compatibility between technology used by the two partners. That is being tested right now. We will get it sorted out soon," he said
BSNL uses multifarious technology of various telecom equipment vendors like Ericson, Nokia, Alcatel, ZTE, Huawei and others while Jio's network is mostly on Samsung.
BSNL close to inking tower-sharing pact with Aircel | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis
