BSNL Aims 250,000 WiMax Subscribers By Year-end

A senior BSNL official has revealed that the company plans to have a user base of at least 250,000 WiMax customers by the end of 2010.

The intentions were revealed in an interview with Telecom Yatra where the unnamed official also added that currently, BSNL's WiMax subscriber base has only 3,000 users. The state-owned telecom service provider recently launched WiMax services in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh and has 210 base stations spread across North and East India. BSNL has plans to launch its WiMax services in the urban centres of Kerala and Punjab by next month.



This is apart from the 1,000 base stations in rural areas that are also set to be commissioned next month. Looks like BSNL has big plans for the wireless broadband segment. The growth in this sector, however, will be directly proportional to the impetus that BSNL puts into creating a robust WiMax network. Then, there is the tariff factor as well which will decide if BSNL will be really able to achieve its target subscriber base of 250,000 subscribers by year-end.