DoT for smaller BSNL tenders

With BSNL losing market share to competitors due to limitation of its network, whose expansion too is fraught with problems, the government is looking at the option of allowing the state-run telecom player to sell part of the originally planned 93 million lines.

This could be an alternative to the Central Vigilance Commission’s suggestion of cancelling the Rs 35,000-crore equipment tender and calling a snap bid, a senior official at the Department of Telecommunications said.