{"id":994624,"date":"2026-02-25T11:33:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994624"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:03:29","slug":"the-bottomless-pit-that-is-bsnl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/25\/the-bottomless-pit-that-is-bsnl\/","title":{"rendered":"The bottomless pit that is BSNL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than six years after the government poured \u20b969,000 crore for its revival and nearly two years after it paid \u20b9132 crore to Boston Consulting Group for a strategic transformation roadmap, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. is firmly back where it has spent most of the past two decades\u2014in the red.<\/p>\n<p>In its latest reported quarter, October-December 2025, the state-owned telecom company posted a loss of \u20b91,302 crore. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than six years after the government poured \u20b969,000 crore for its revival and nearly two years after it paid \u20b9132 crore to Boston Consulting Group for a strategic transformation roadmap, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. is firmly back where it has spent most of the past two decades\u2014in the red. In its latest reported quarter, October-December 2025, the state-owned telecom company posted a loss of \u20b91,302 crore.<\/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":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994624","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=994624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}