BSNL teams up with Micromax and Lava to offer low cost handsets with bundled plans

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is teaming up with Micromax and Lava to offer mobile handsets at low cost to its customers with bundled voice and data combo plans.

The state run telecom operator said that it coming out with bundled offers for the handsets manufactured by Micromax and Lava with BSNL SIM card. It is currently working out on the cost and plan details. Unfortunately nothing else is known at the moment.

The announcement comes just days after it was reported that Micromax and BSNL are teaming up to launch an affordable 4G VoLTE feature phone called Bharat One.

BSNL's move comes as a counter to Reliance Jio's 4G-VoLTE enabled feature phone called JioPhone, which is available effectively free of cost. In recent time the telecom operator to compete with Jio has been launching affordable voice and data combo plans for its prepaid customer to enjoy more benefits. 

It recently launched a Rs. 249 prepaid plan (ending October 25, 2017) that offered unlimited local and STD on-net calls and 1GB data per day for 28 days. Before that it launched Rs. 429 plan, which offered unlimited and local calls to all networks + 1GB data per day for 90 days.

Apart from BSNL, Airtel is also said to launch affordable 4G handsets priced below Rs. 2,500. Nokia is also showing interest to launch 4G feature phone as well. 

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