BSNL mobile connections to be available on demand

By Our Corporate Bureau | 17 Mar 2005

New Delhi: BSNL mobile phones will be available on demand in the next six months, the government has said in the Lok Sabha.

"Twelve million lines will be provided by BSNL from May this year. In the next six months, BSNL phones will be available on demand," communications and IT minister Dayanidhi Maran said during Question Hour.

He said in the next three years, 160 million lines would be made available by the BSNL and added the number of mobile phone subscribers in the country was 88,46,477 as on February end.