Check this link Total telephone subscriber base rises to 100.69 crore - Livemint At the bottom of the report it says “Top five service providers constituted 83.83% market share of total broadband subscribers at June end. These service providers were Bharti Airtel (2.45 crore), Vodafone (2.20 crore), BSNL (1.82 crore), Idea Cellular (1.66 crore) and Reliance Communications Group (97.4 lakh).”
You can get the same report by every other news site, I believe that was reported by telecomtalk too. The article says 1.82 crore, I used 2 crore in my analysis. Did I do wrong? It’s only to calculate easily, but even then, they are earning at least six crores daily if every user gets disconnected once per day. It’s irrelevant to discuss how much they paid for mobile spectrum or such things. We are discussing broadband here, not why BSNL is not getting tenders.
We subscribed to broadband service, they didn’t notify us prior to taking the connection or when they started the redirection. They don’t have any official circular/notification regarding this.
Either they are earning this advertisement money themselves, or the third party XGen is earning. Either way, they are getting money by exploiting users. The users were not notified, the district level staffs dont have a clue, and we can not opt-out.
So far, I have went through five guys in BSNL, no one had a clue. They never heard of the redirection. All they could say, whatever was done, out of their control, only the circle head quarters can solve this, which in my case is Kolkata. I have spend ten hours at least on this without any solution. I can’t use another operator, because there is no other option in my town.
They have a lot of ads on the websites, about a dozen. Bsnl has 2 crores of broadband customers. The redirect occurs every time you disconnect and reconnect broadband. It will happen every 24 hours automatically if I don’t disconnect. So, lets say everyone disconnects once per day, though in reality it would be higher. 2 crores of page visit minimum, daily. Now suppose they have ten ads on the page. 20 crores of advertisements. Usually, these ads pay $5 per 1000 visits. So that means…ohh…something around seven crores daily. If BSNL redirects just once they are getting around seven crores daily. Its much higher, I usually see about 10-12 disconnects per day.
