Office of
Chief General Manager(Telecom)
Marketing Cell,
Tamilnadu Telecom Circle
Ground Floor,New CTS Building
16,Greams Road,
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BHARAT SANCHAR NIGAM LIMITED(A Government of India Enterprise)

To

All Heads of SSAs,

BSNL ,

Tamilnadu Circle.

Mktg / CS-CFA / Navitel PCO / 2010 / 27, dated at Chennai -6, the - 07 - 2011

Sub: Roll out of Navitel PCO –reg.

Ref: This office even no letter dated 4/9/2010

Kindly refer the letter cited above wherein the copy of the agreement signed between BSNL and M/s Navitel Corportion Ltd was circulated to SSAs (uploaded in circle intranet in MKTG/CFA FOLDER on 7-9-2010)

Approval of Chief General Manager, Tamilnadu Circle is hereby conveyed for the roll out of Smart Pay phone in Tamilnadu Circle by M/s. Navitel. Roll out of Smart Pay phone initiated in PY SSA on 20-7-2011 with provision of 5 Payphones.

Smart Payphone offers Local / STD / ISD services on 24x7 basis and accepts Rs. 1, 2, 5 coins

and also rechargeable smart cards.

As per agreement, BSNL has to provide IN Platform for Smart Pay Phone. Due to the constraints that there is no provision of ‘reversal’ feature in SCP required for PCO functioning, competent authority has approved the FPPIN (Function Pay Phone Intelligent Network) to be provided one each in every SSA by M/s. Navitel.

SSA will get A/T conducted for the installation functioning of FPPIN and other equipments and furnish the compliance to this office .

M/s. Navitel Corporation will install, operate and maintain the Public Pay Phone. Payphone Management System will be installed and maintained by Payphone Operator. Payphone calls will be pushed through PRI via FPPIN and a single billing will be done on PRI pilot number for all the payphone calls in the SSA.

The working methodology of FPPIN based smart payphone is given below:

One FPPIN will be installed at one of the exchanges in the SSA Headquarters and will have connectivity of PRIs. Smart pay phones deployed in various places in the SSA will be connected to FPPIN as exchange configured ‘No delay hotline’ facility on PRI pilot numbers.

As and when the customer lifts the hand set of a smart pay phone, the line is connected to the FPPIN .The destination number dialed by PCO will be received by FPPIN and it will further dial out using the PRI. FPPIN and Payphone start charging simultaneously, once called party answers.

The customer is billed by the Smart Pay Phone (i.e) customer inserts coin and dials. For all the calls M/S Navitel will be billed on the PRI junctions, after effecting the discount. In case of two or more PRIs in the SSA, group billing may be done.

In this connection approval is accorded by CGM TN Circle to extend the following provisions in each SSA of TN Circle.

  1. Installation charges, Security Deposit, monthly rentals and call charges are waived for DELs, on which Smart Payphones are installed by M/s. Navitel. The DELs are created with I/C barred (without STD/ISD) as a separate category. These DELs are provided with exchange configured ‘No delay hotline’ facility, free of charges and mapped to the PRI number of FPPIN.
  1. Space at exchange premises is provided to M/s. Navitel for housing FPPIN. The space, Inverter power supply, Air-condition etc. are at free of cost.
  1. Two service phone connections are provided in FPPIN room, one with ‘no delay hot line’ feature to PRI pilot No. for providing Test Pay phone and second DEL is ordinary connection without STD/ISD.
  1. One PRI is provided for every 200 payphones with the waiver of monthly rentals, installation charges, security deposit, Modem charges. The call charges are Re.1/- (inclusive of service tax) per MCU. These PRIs are provided with hunting facility, ISD facility and they are provided with “STD/ISD PCO Tariff” category.
  1. One Service 2 Mbps VPN over Broadband connection is provided on the second service phone connection mentioned above with static IP and without internet access for data transfer between FPPIN and PMS.
  1. One or 2 test calls are made to the Toll Free Number (1800 425 1946) daily for monitoring the performance of the payphones. In this connection charges of l
  1. calls originated from Smart payphones to this TFN are waived, subject to a maximum of 50 calls per month.
  1. Revenue share between BSNL and M/s. Navitel Corporation as per agreement is 70:30 (applicable up to the total bill of Rs.2 Crores per annum) on the PRI meter reading.

ITPC, Hyderabad is making required provisions for Special Tariff Plans in CDR System.

Hence SSAs are requested to extend the above required infrastructure, for roll out of Smart Pay Phone by M/s Navitel.

As our PCO Achievement in the recent years are very poor, we may utilize the services of M/s. Navitel to increase our PCO base and in turn the PCO revenue. SSAs are requested to assign the task of identifying the potential locations to Sales Team of CFA to enable the speedy provision of Smart Pay Phones and convey the list to this office at the earliest.

(S.K.Radha)

General Manager (S&M) CFA

O/O CGM BSNL TN Circle

Chennai 600 006

PH 2829 7140 Fax 2829 0888

Copy to:

1.GM (BP&IT) Circle office /GM (ITPC), Hyderabad

2. GM (TR) /GM (F) Circle Office.

3.M/s Navitel Corporation Ltd.