{"id":1039938,"date":"2026-10-01T07:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039938"},"modified":"2026-10-01T08:08:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:38:58","slug":"bsnl-to-launch-free-insurance-for-mobile-subscribers-cover-cybercrime-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/01\/bsnl-to-launch-free-insurance-for-mobile-subscribers-cover-cybercrime-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"BSNL to launch free insurance for mobile subscribers, cover cybercrime losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In an industry-first move, state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) plans to launch an insurance plan for its users, which includes coverage for cybercrimes. The state-owned telco has partnered with Oriental Insurance Company (OICL). <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;BSNL is the first operator to take insurance to the people who haven&#8217;t even heard about it, which will include losses from cybercrimes,&#8221; BSNL Chairman A Robert J Ravi told ET. <\/p>\n<p>The insurance will offer accidental death cover of \u20b91 lakh and cyber-fraud cover of \u20b910,000 with select BSNL prepaid plans, including the STV 202 and STV 2449 packs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In an industry-first move, state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) plans to launch an insurance plan for its users, which includes coverage for cybercrimes. The state-owned telco has partnered with Oriental Insurance Company (OICL). &#8220;BSNL is the first operator to take insurance to the people who haven&#8217;t even heard about it, which will include losses from cybercrimes,&#8221; BSNL Chairman A Robert J Ravi told ET. The insurance will offer accidental death cover of \u20b91 lakh and cyber-fraud cover of \u20b910,000 with select BSNL prepaid plans, including the STV 202 and STV 2449 packs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039950,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039938\/revisions\/1039950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}