BSNL launches 3G mobile phone services in Chennai

23 February 2009

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) on Sunday launched its third generation mobile phone services from Chennai, enabling subscribers to access a range of upgraded services, including rich voice, data and video services.

3G allows video streaming applications such as live TV, movie downloads and high speed data downloads on 3G-enabled mobile phones. Callers can also see each other on their mobile phone screens, according to a press release from BSNL.

The Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi, launched the service with an inaugural call to the union minister for communication and IT,  A Raja, a BSNL release said.

The new service will offer data speed of 2 Mbps against 144 Kbps available now over the GPRS and EDGE enabled mobile networks.

Chennai Telephones has installed 25 stations (Node-Bs) in the city for the initial launch and these would be expanded fast.

BSNL will offer trial pack for customers of 50/100MB or 15 days. The trial pack will not be allowed more than once per customer.