To stand in the competition of the private players, BSNL govt-owned company takes a stand for itself. On Monday, it came out with few prepaid schemes which give lots of benefits to the users. These benefits are, especially for the new users. Under the scheme, new subscribers can make 30 minutes of free voice calls - local and STD - daily to any other network for a month, for Rs. 149.

“BSNL has always been a front-runner in providing better and economical services to all their customers and this is one of the many such endeavours. Customers are coming forward to get our service which has helped our company increase our market share by 1 percent since March 2015 even in these hyper-competitive telecom services," BSNL Chairman and Managing Director Anupam Shrivastava said.

“Customers will also have an option to get similar free unlimited calls for three months by paying the lumpsum amount of Rs. 439”, a BSNL statement said.

With all these benefits, there is one more benefit users will get is 300MB of data, and it is included in the offer. But the free calls are limited to 30 minutes per day on networks other than BSNL.

“This promotional offer is on the pan-India basis from January 24, 2017, for all new customers and those of other operators who want to port out their number and join BSNL under the mobile number portability”, the company said.

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