BSNL or Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has announced a new broadband plan. Among other benefits, BSNL is offering free subscription of Amazon Prime under the new broadband plan. This was revealed by BSNL Chennai, a regional arm of BSNL, on the microblogging site Twitter. Known as “BSNL BBG Combo ULD 700 Amaze”, the broadband plan comes with 10 Mbps (megabits per second) speed. “BSNL has just announced a new Rs. 700 broadband plan dubbed as BSNL BBG Combo ULD 700 Amaze which offers a 10 Mbps connection, with 15 GB FUP and 500 free calls , the best part of this plan is the free Amazon Prime Subscription,” BSNL Chennai said.

Here are five things to know about BSNL’s BBG Combo ULD 700 Amaze broadband plan:

1. The connection will come with a limit of 15 GBs of data under Fair Usage Policy, BSNL Chennai said.

2. The connection will include 500 free calls.

3. BSNL termed the free Amazon Prime Subscription offer as “the best part of this plan”.

4. The announcement from BSNL comes amid high competition in the Indian telecom sector.

5. It could not be immediately ascertained whether the offer is available in all circles.

State-run telecom operator BSNL has come up with new unlimited prepaid recharge plan offers priced at Rs. 99 and Rs. 319 for its prepaid customers,. The move was widely viewed as a bid to counter prepaid offerings by rival telecom companies: Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel. Many telecom operators in the country have recently announced new plans – with both data and voice calling features – to retain their customer bases, say analysts.

Meanwhile, twelve lakh customers throughout the country opted for portability from other networks to state-owned BSNL in the last financial year, news agency IANS reported last month, citing Chief General Manager of Calcutta Telephones SP Tripathi.

State owned telecom firm BSNL today signed a pact with Finnish telecom gear maker Nokia to roll out 4G services in 10 telecom circles covering western and southern regions in India.

“We are really proud to have technology partner like Nokia with whom we are working in South and West Zone of the country, rolling out the latest single RAN Technology, and further moving towards 5G…,” BSNL CMD Anupam Shrivastava said in a statement.

Nokia will deploy the technology in 10 telecom circles in India – Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Goa, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Telangana – serving large cities, businesses, technology and tourist hubs and nearly 38 million BSNL subscribers.

The network technology that will be deployed by Nokia will help BSNL to save operational costs while supporting 2G, 3G and 4G subscribers in a single radio unit, the statement said.

“New VoLTE services will allow BSNL’s 4G subscribers to experience HD-quality voice and faster call connections,” it added.

As per Nokia MBiT Index 2018, released last week , 4G contributed to 82% of data traffic in 2017 and the monthly 4G data usage per user was nearly 11GB per user per month in India.

In 2017, Nokia and BSNL signed an agreement to explore and develop the applications of 5G for the India market.

“We are pleased to continue our longstanding relationship with BSNL on this important project in India. The deployment of our technologies will enable BSNL to launch exciting new voice and data services, satisfying growing demand in India,” Sanjay Malik, head of India Market at Nokia, said.