BSNL to boost minimum broadband speed to 2 Mbps - In light of Narendra Modi government's Digital India initiatives, State-run telecom service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) on Monday decided to enhance landline broadband speed to minimum 2Mbps at no extra cost for broadband customers from October 1.

Union Minister for Communication and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad announced the facility in Gurgaon.

He said that BSNL is also presenting 1GB free email box to their customers from 50MB mail box. The minister said the improvement of speed will help all the existing and new Broadband customers of BSNL.

In a statement, BSNL said, "The speed upgradation will benefit all the existing and new broadband customers of BSNL. Under this scheme, BSNL is upgrading the speed of existing Broadband plans of 512Kbps and 1Mbps to 2Mbps speed."

BSNL introduced the broadband services over its landline in India in 2005, with speed of 256kbps and above over the state-of-art multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) -based IP infrastructure in urban and rural areas.

"This upgradation shall enhance customer experience while surfing on Internet and enjoying live video streaming by all customers even in the low price range. This scheme is expected to attract new customers for subscribing BSNL Broadband customers in an affordable manner," the statement further said.

Union Minister of State for Planning (Independent Charge) and Minister of State for Defence Rao Inderjeet Singh, CMD of BSNL Anupam Srivastava and CGM of Haryana Circle Ambala R.C. Arya were also present on the occasion.