{"id":965870,"date":"2025-10-03T11:29:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=965870"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:29:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:59:16","slug":"bsnl-expands-4g-network-in-bengal-plans-5g-in-kol-in-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/03\/bsnl-expands-4g-network-in-bengal-plans-5g-in-kol-in-26\/","title":{"rendered":"BSNL expands 4G network in Bengal, plans 5G in Kol in \u201926"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata: BSNL commissioned 3,744 4G sites in Bengal, including Kolkata, with an investment of Rs 1,166 crore since last Aug, the state PSU said on Friday, a day before the inauguration of its indigenously built 97,500 mobile 4G towers across India by PM Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which posted back-to-back quarterly profits after 17 years, plans to add another 800 4G sites in the state over the next 6-8 months, said Hawa Singh Jakhar, chief general manager, West Bengal Telecom Circle, BSNL. &#8220;We are providing 4G services in 23 districts of Bengal with 2,148 4G sites. But we need more sites to increase our 4G coverage,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata: BSNL commissioned 3,744 4G sites in Bengal, including Kolkata, with an investment of Rs 1,166 crore since last Aug, the state PSU said on Friday, a day before the inauguration of its indigenously built 97,500 mobile 4G towers across India by PM Narendra Modi. The company, which posted back-to-back quarterly profits after 17 years, plans to add another 800 4G sites in the state over the next 6-8 months, said Hawa Singh Jakhar, chief general manager, West Bengal Telecom Circle, BSNL. &#8220;We are providing 4G services in 23 districts of Bengal with 2,148 4G sites. But we need more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965870","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}