BSNL Satellite Phone now available to anyone in India

Thilak29 · 1st July 2019, 14:56

Sat Phone calls are insanely expensive. Is this way of making money by sinking BSNL by making it available to the large public ?

Around the same time last year, call rates were 5 rupees per minute and every phone came with INR 500 monthly rent. Former defense minister intervened and reduced the cost for our brave jawans.

Abbas · 1st July 2019, 16:58

This is nothing new. BSNL has this service running since 2017.

T1000 · 1st July 2019, 17:43

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Originally Posted by sgiitk

What is the Grand Idea in not allowing global activities on a GPS phone!

Indian law enforcement agencies cannot intercept the communication of global service providers.

It's an old requirement. Nowadays, even WhatsApp communication cannot be intercepted.

Living2Drive · 8th July 2019, 18:11

Has anyone in the group tried this? i checked in the BSNL website and there's not much of info on cost and procedures to get one. It only has info on 1100 ish payment on registration, nothing else. I stay on the out skirts of Chennai and i hardly have 2 or 3 bars of signal, this will be of good use to me provided the cost is affordable...

PreludeSH · 24th October 2024, 10:47

https://www.india.com/business/maste...afone-7330771/

One should be able to use their normal phones for text/emergencies. Starlink has arrangement with T-Mobile in US to do this on its gen 2 satellites. Good to see BSNL doing this and hope its not just to show and is available to customers. But I would have hoped one of airtel/Jio to do this since it will make it available to larger customer base.

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Thilak29 BHPian Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: KA21 Posts: 949 Thanked: 3,663 Times View My Garage	Re: BSNL Satellite Phone now available to anyone in India Sat Phone calls are insanely expensive. Is this way of making money by sinking BSNL by making it available to the large public ? Around the same time last year, call rates were 5 rupees per minute and every phone came with INR 500 monthly rent. Former defense minister intervened and reduced the cost for our brave jawans.
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1st July 2019, 16:58	#17
Abbas BHPian Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Visakhapatnam Posts: 473 Thanked: 581 Times View My Garage	Re: BSNL Satellite Phone now available to anyone in India This is nothing new. BSNL has this service running since 2017.
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8th July 2019, 18:11	#19
Living2Drive BHPian Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Chennai Posts: 60 Thanked: 132 Times	Re: BSNL Satellite Phone now available to anyone in India Has anyone in the group tried this? i checked in the BSNL website and there's not much of info on cost and procedures to get one. It only has info on 1100 ish payment on registration, nothing else. I stay on the out skirts of Chennai and i hardly have 2 or 3 bars of signal, this will be of good use to me provided the cost is affordable...
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24th October 2024, 10:47	#20
PreludeSH BHPian Join Date: Oct 2021 Location: Bengaluru Posts: 994 Thanked: 2,245 Times	Re: BSNL Satellite Phone now available to anyone in India https://www.india.com/business/maste...afone-7330771/ One should be able to use their normal phones for text/emergencies. Starlink has arrangement with T-Mobile in US to do this on its gen 2 satellites. Good to see BSNL doing this and hope its not just to show and is available to customers. But I would have hoped one of airtel/Jio to do this since it will make it available to larger customer base.
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