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BSNL to test Blackberry, Wimax in BHEL township

Staff Reporter

Two cellular base transceiver stations commissioned

Photo: M. Moorthy

FACILITY: A .V. Krishnan (right), Executive Director, BHEL, inaugurating the BSNL cellphone tower in Tiruchi on Monday. —

TIRUCHI: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has plans to test its new products like Blackberry service, Wimax (worldwide interoperability for microwave access) and mobile broadband services in the BHEL township shortly.

The township will have a new telephone exchange and the existing one is poised for modernisation, Principal General Manager of BSNL, Tiruchi Secondary Switching Area, A. Balraj, said on Monday.

Mr. Balraj was speaking at a function organised by BSNL for commissioning its Cellular Base Transceiver Stations at Nehru Nagar and Kamarajapuram on the BHEL premises here.

Commissioning the facility, BHEL Executive Director A.V. Krishnan observed that video conferencing through hi-tech communication gadgets would obviate the need for air travel in the coming days.

The tie-up between BHEL and BSNL was in the direction of mutual progress, he said.

The Base Transceiver Stations have been a long-felt need of the BHEL since the signals were weak in a part of the complex that included the locations of Welding Research Institute and Combined Cycle Demonstration Plant.

General Manager, Maintenance and Services, Civil and Safety Management, P. Nainar, who spoke on the occasion, commended the BSNL for providing ‘closed user group’ connection for employees in BHEL’s Tiruchi Complex and for facilitating broad-band Internet access in the township through auto phones to benefit the student community.

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