Public sector telecom major Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has tied up with Finnish cell-phone major Nokia for bundling 3G handsets along with its services. A senior BSNL official told the media that, the PSU has tied up with Nokia to supply handsets for its 3G subscribers. BSNL is India's third largest mobile company in terms of subscribers.

 

Nokia India Head, Operator Channels, V Ramnath also confirmed the news by saying that, this partnership with BSNL would bring to the Indian consumers 3G services on a host of Nokia devices such as Nokia 3120Classic, Nokia 5320, Nokia N79, Nokia N81, Nokia E71 and the Nokia 5800Xpress Music. Owners of these devices will be able to avail of talk-time as well as data packages across various price plans, he added.

 

Ramnath also said that, they are also in discussions with BSNL to offer its subscribers a combination of free as well as paid for applications in order to further enhance consumer experience. Earlier, BSNL has launched 3G mobile services in February enabling video streaming applications such as Live TV, movie downloads, and high speed data download on mobile phones.