| Besides, it also plans to bring down the tariff for broadband and is likely to make an announcement in this regard in a few days. |
| Speaking to the media, A K Sinha, chairman and managing director of BSNL, said, "We have 1.8 million internet users all of which are on dial-up connection. We plan to convert all these customers to broadband users." |
| This fiscal, BSNL plans to add one million broadband customers to its network, followed by two million and three million in the consecutive years. |
| It also intends to add two crore mobile subscribers this financial year from the existing 1.07 crore users. |
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