Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is banking on allocation of the coveted airwaves in the 700 MHz band to launch high-speed fourth-generation or 4G services to take on rivals Bharti AirtelBSE 0.07 % and Reliance Jio Infocomm.
The company has written twice to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), first in September 2016 and more recently in early January this year, to allocate 5 MHz block in the 700 MHz band spectrum on a revenue-sharing arrangement, BSNL chairman Anupam Shrivastava told ET.