Joint Forum of BSNL UNION/Association of Non- executives & executives. 
14.01.2008 
JF/ BSNL/DEV 
To 
Shri Kuldeep Goyal, CMD, BSNL, 
Bharat Sanchar Bhawan New Delhi -110001 
Sir, 
Sub: The ctrave situation due lack of eXDansion and deyelopment of BSNL Services. 
We want to bring to your kind notice the extreme grave situation where the BSNL services are not able to expand and develop and have already been placed from the second to the 
fourth position in the mobile sector. 
1.	GSM Lines, 2G & 3G 	." 	... ' 
The situation has deteriorated since early last year due to non-availability of GSM lines to 
be provided. The global tender of 45.5 million GSM lines did not materialize even after more than one year due to court cases etc. and when the case was dismissed as withdrawn, the Hon'ble Minister of Communications intervened which resulted In further delay. 
The entire workforce in the BSNL including executives went on a strike on 11th July, 2007 against the indecision of management and proposal to cancel the tender as a result of which approval was issued only for 50% of the tender. We are extremely sorry to point out that BSNL Board took a decision to cut the tender to 50%, even when the DoT firmly stood for the full 100% tender. BSNL Board had failed in defending the interest of the company. 
Many assurances were given by the Hon'ble Minister for Communications and BSNL management that sufficient lines will be made available by the end of the year, a fresh tender for 50-60 million GSM lines including 2G and 3G will be floated in August 2007, emergent procurement of GSM lines will be made from the earlier bidder etc. But nothing seems to have been done to implement these assurances. 
While all the private Telco’s are reaping a rich harvest providing maximum number of mobile lines, BSNL is poorly lagging behind and has gone down to the IV position in mobile connections from its earlier second position. It could provide only 6 lakh connections in November while Airtel has provided 22 lakhs in the same month. The market share of BSNL from 24% in July 2007 has gone down to 14% by November December 2007. Many Circles are not in a position to meet the huge demands for mobile connections, which is used by private Telco’s to their benefits. 
It was stated that the situation will improve by January 2008, by which time BSNL will be able to provide about 40 lakh mobile connections and one lakh Broadband connections per month. But no such improvement has taken place.