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Kolkata , June 24

CALCUTTA Telephones on Friday announced plans to invest Rs 380 crore on various customer-centric initiatives in the current fiscal.

Addressing a news conference here on Friday, Mr S.P. Chakravarty, Chief General Manager of Calcutta Telephones, said that, besides offering value-added services to customers, the initiatives were aimed at checking the tendency of surrender of basic telephones in favour of mobile telephones.

Mr Chakravarty said an amount of Rs 200 crore would be spent on augmenting the capacity of BSNL's GSM network in Kolkata. In addition to the existing three-lakh capacity, an additional six-lakh capacity is being added by Nortel Network with additional features like locational-based service, etc. The Cellone network of BSNL in Kolkata is all set to become the largest GSM network with over 900 base transmitting stations.

According to him, a corpus of Rs 65 crore has been earmarked for modernisation, upgradation and expansion of the network. Value-added products such as broadband and free Centrex facility would also be on offer. In the current fiscal, the capacity of the broadband network would be augmented to one lakh at an estimated investment of Rs 25 crore. Mr Chakravarty said a sum of Rs 30 crore would be spent on the CDMA-based WLL network of Calcutta Telephones. A 50,000-line CDMA 2000-IX technology-based WLL network would be commissioned in the current year. In order to provide Internet access at public places, Calcutta Telephones would launch Wi-Fi Hotspot services.

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