BSNL expansion plans delayed: Minister
New
Delhi,
Nov
29:
Quoting
the
CAG
report,
Minister
of
State
for
Communications
Shakeel
Ahmad
today
informed
the
Rajya
Sabha
that
there
were
delays
at
every
stage
of
finalisation
of
the
tender
for
procurement
of
GSM
mobile
equipment
and
this
has
contributed
to
loss
of
subscribers
to
the
state-owned
company's
network.
In a written reply, the Minister said the procurement process of GSM equipment has since been concluded with the acceptance of Advance Purchase Order (APO) by the L- bidder and the capacities are expected to be progressively available from last quarter of this financial year.
The procurement delays has hit the expansion of GSM mobile services and Trunk Automatic Exchange (TAX).
UNI
Story first published: Thursday, November 29, 2007, 14:52 [IST]