BSNL partners with Lava and Micromax to launch low-cost mobile handsets

BSNL partners with Lava and Micromax to launch low-cost mobile handsets

BSNL will soon announce bundled offers for handsets manufactured by Micromax and Lava. The company is reportedly working on a JioPhone competitor named Bharat One in partnership with Micromax.
BSNL, the state-owned telecom service provider, has tied up with Micromax and Lava to offer low-cost mobile handsets to consumers. The company is partnering with Lava and Micromax to offer devices at low cost to BSNL customers. The telecommunications service provider will soon announce bundled offers for handsets from these two home-grown mobile brands.

"BSNL has tied up with Micromax and Lava to provide instruments to BSNL customers at low cost. We are coming out with bundled offers on the handsets manufactured by Micromax and Lava with BSNL SIMs... the cost details are being worked out," K Ramchand, Principal General Manager, BSNL's Hyderabad Telecom District (HTD) told reporters in Hyderabad.

PTI reports that BSNL has commissioned six rural exchanges with Wi-Fi in Hyderabad Telecom District and will have another 112 operational rural exchanges by the end of December this year.