Srinagar: State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) will provide 2.45 lakh new telephone connections, including two lakh mobile phone connections, in Kashmir valley during the current fiscal.
Two lakh new mobile phone connections, 30,000 WLL phones and 15,000 broad band phone connections will be provided to subscribers in the valley, an official spokesman said after launching BSNL s high speed wireless data card services here yesterday. Minister of State for information and science technology Javeed Mustafa Mir inaugurated the high speed wireless data card services for internet and other services to the BSNL consumers.
The facility of internet data services would be provided initially to those consumers who are having landline and WLL connections. Mir said the company should strengthen the basic infrastructure so that the consumers do not suffer.
