5G Service Arrives in 2020 and Will End ‘Concept of Rupees per GB’, Says BSNL

Jun. 29, 2018

In an interview withBusinessLine, Shrivastava revealed thatBSNL’s 5G services will effectively put an end to the ‘concept of rupees per GB’,and that the services availed by customers will decide the tariff.BSNL MD and Chairman, Anupam Shrivastava (Image credit: Business Line)

“Soon, the concept of rupees per GB will cease to exist. Tariff will be on the basis of the product and there is a fixed cost to that. The customer can use as many services as they can from what they pay. So services will decide the tariff, which is happening the world over”, Shrivastava said.

On being asked about the industry-wide destabilization created by the entry of Reliance Jio, the BSNL chairman agreed that all operators have felt the effects of the market disruption. However, BSNL handled the situation quite well and that its customer market share improved in that period, thanks to a ‘connected’ strategy, he added.