26 Thursday Mar 2015
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New Delhi, Mar 26 : The Supreme Court today lifted its embargo and allowed the government to finalise the result of the just-concluded biggest and “fiercest” auction for telecom spectrum, fetching a whopping revenue of Rs 1.09 lakh crore. (PTI)
The result of the spectrum auction was not declared due to an earlier order of the court. Now it has been removed.
25 Wednesday Mar 2015
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The spectrum action is over after a very long 19 days. The government will get Rs. 1,09,874 crores from the auction of 800 MHz, 900MHz, 1800MHz and 2100MHz spectrum. This is the biggest auction of spectrum so far. There has been stiff competition to get the spectrum by the private companies.
We demand that from the spectrum sale, at least Rs. 10,000 crore should be paid to BSNL as immediate assistance to purchase equipment for expansion and maintenance.
25 Wednesday Mar 2015
Posted in BSNL - Better Service to the Nation, BSNL News, PSU, SAVE BSNL CAMPAIGN, Telecom
BSNL is passing through a difficult period. It is in loss, its market share has gone down to below 9% and its subscribers are surrendering land lines. A herculean effort is required to ring it back to normal. The Forum, which is the umbrella organisation of all the unions and associations is on a campaign trail to get the support of the people for its revival. The 2.5 lakh workers are fully committed to the revival of BSNL.
In this context, it is only appropriate that a member of the staff side /union / association should be included in the Director Board. Workers’ Participation should not only be a slogan, but is also to be practised.
19 Thursday Mar 2015
Posted in BSNL - Better Service to the Nation, Telecom
It is reliably learnt that BSNL has plans to start WiFi services in the following tourist spots for the benefit of the people visiting there. Following are the 10 spots.
Monuments to get WiFi hotspot:
19 Thursday Mar 2015
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By 19-03-2015, the auction for spectrum has reached Rs.1.09 lakh crore.
We demand that the government allot at least Rs. 10,000 crore for the Revival of BSNL from this amount.
19 Thursday Mar 2015
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Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri, Convener Forum and President BSNLCCWF met Shri Anupam Shrivastava, CMD BSNL today, 19-03-2015, and discussed the following:
First of all, Com.Namboodiri expressed his happiness that BSNL is considered as the 10th biggest company with maximum assets.
1. Starting of WiFi in cities and other important places in co-ordination with the Corporations/government: As agreement has been made between the NDMC New Delhi and Indus Towers for providing WiFi in Delhi, BSNL can start providing the same with co-ordination with the Corporations and government. CMD stated that already such proposals are being mooted out in some circles. That will be processed.
2. Reduced Market Share of BSNL: Com. Namboodiri as per the latest statistics, many of the circles are far below even the average market share of BSNL. Urgent steps are required to improve the position. CMD stated that urgent action is being taken to improve the position.
3. Implementation of labour laws for the casual contract workers: Com. Namboodiri pointed out the non-payment of minimum wages, non-implementation of EPF, ESI etc. Specifically he mentioned about the problem in Haldwani in Utterakhand where workers are retrenched for demanding minimum wage etc. CMD assured he will look in to all the matters connected with the same.
19 Thursday Mar 2015
Posted in Telecom
The New Delhi Municipal Corporation has signed a Letter of Intent with Indus Towers, a joint venture of Airtel, Vodafone and Idea, for providing Wifi in New Delhi. It is stated that about 18,500 poles will have to be erected for the purpose.
Though MTNL is the telecom PSU operating in Delhi, the Letter of intent is given to private companies. In our opinion, the NDMC should entrust the work with MTNL.
18 Wednesday Mar 2015
By 17th the Spectrum bids have reached Rs. 1.07 lakh crore. The government will certainly get good money.
But what about the consumers? It is afraid that the private companies who have taken thousands of crores of rupees from the Banks for bidding will certainly raise the charges. The consumers will be compelled to pay more. Since BSNL and MTNL are in the field, it will not be so much easy for the private companies to increase much. We can watch the developments.
17 Tuesday Mar 2015
Posted in Telecom, TU News - International, TUI of P&R
Meeting of Telecommunications’ Trade Unions from Europe
PRESS RELEASE
Meeting of Telecommunications’ Trade Unions from Europe On Saturday, March 14, took place at the Headquarters of PAME in Athens a meeting of trade union organisations from Telecommunications to discuss the coordination of the workers in the sector against the multinationals.
In the meeting which was hosted by PAME participated the trade union organisations USB from Italy,PEO from Cyprus and CoBas from Spain. The organisations agreed that it is necessary for the fighting trade unions of Europe to coordinate their action in a sector that is dominated by the monopolies, with hundreds of thousands of workers, who are, in majority, working as modern slaves, especially in the huge call centers. At the same time the delegations highlighted issues such as privatizations, the destructive role of the employers’ trade unionism and the persecutions against militant workers.
The organisations agreed in a series of initiatives, with main goal the need to organise a big meeting of the fighting trade unions in telecommunications, IT and call centers, which can be a step for common action. The delegations also talked about the need to open the discussion within the workers and the trade unions for Telecommunications that will not belong to business groups, but they will be property of the people and will guarantee cheap and quality access to the commodity of communication to all people, while at the same time will provide full-time, steady jobs, with full rights to the workers
16 Monday Mar 2015
Posted in Telecom
It is reported that the Board for Reconstruction of Public Sector Enterprises (BRPSE), which takes decision on the sick PSUs, their revival etc. may not exist. The government has proposed to close the same and bring a small committee to look after the same. It is intended to take faster decisions.
The NDA government is on the route to privatise many sick PSUs. The same thing happened during the last NDA government. Already the government has taken decision to privatise 6 sick industries including certain units HMT.
We express our strong protest against this privatisation move.
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