MTNL

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HISTORY

Developments in the year 1986

On 28th February Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. was incorporated as a Public Limited Company under the Companies Act, 1956. The company has been set up to take over the management, control and operation of Delhi Telephone District (Excluding public telegraph service) and Mumbai Telephone District of the Department of Telecommunications and to plan, establish, develop, provide, operate and maintain all types of telecommunication services including Telephone, telex, wireless, data communication, telemetric and other like forms of communication.
One of the important objectives of the company is to raise the necessary finance to meet its own developmental needs and also that of the telecommunications board of the Department of Telecommunication.


Development in the year 1996

The Company floated on private placement basis 11th `A` part and 12th Series of bonds aggregating Rs 359.26 crores for the developmental programmes of the department of telecommunications.

Development in the year 1997

The Company took various steps to provide a host of value added services like datacom, inet, DIDPABX, Voice Mail, Radio Paging and ISDN.
In addition to phone plus facilities like dynamic locking, call waiting/call transfer, hot lines etc. were extended to valued customers. Apart from this IVRS (Interactive Voice Response System) like local assistance changed number information, and fault booking system ensuring round the clock service, a CD-ROM version of the telephone directory and an on-line directory enquiry through PC was introduced during the year.
The Company undertook to provide, wireless in the local loop in Mumbai and Delhi, GSM Mobile Telephone in Delhi and Mumbai, B.CDMA pilot project, Induction of Smart Payphone and introduction of DLC optical fiber borne system.

Developments in the year 1998

As on 31st March, the waiting list of the MTNL has 1047 in Delhi and Nil in Mumbai due to its sustained efforts and timely implementation of various projects.
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd is considering a proposal to reduce the security; a Wireless in Local Loop (WiLL) subscriber has to pay to Rs 15,000 from Rs 25,000.


Developments in the year 2006

In December 2006, MTNL has deployed state-of-the-art MPLS infrastructure to provide the latest and varied IP based value added services like IP VPN services to its customers. MPLS is an acronym for “Multi Protocol Label Switching”. MPLS is fast emerging as the best approach for simplified enterprise connectivity. It will be possible for MTNL to offer assured growth to its customers without having to make significant investments because of inherent features MPLS offers to build secure Virtual Private Network and its further scalability.