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Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL)
(A brief
history)
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It was early in 1870, the first
Submarine Telegraph Cable from U.K.
landed in Bombay. Heralded the era
of external telecommunications in India.
The Eastern Telegraph Co. (ETC) of 1872
and the Indian RadioTelegraph Co. (IRT)
of 1927 merged to form the Indian Radio
and Cable Communications Co. (IRCC) in
1932.
The H.F. Radio telegraph made its
appearance on the scene in 1927,
followed by Radio telephony in 1933.
Consequent to India's Independence in
1947, there were phenomenal developments
in her communication system and
technology. The Government of India took
over the IRCC, giving birth to the
Overseas Communications Service (OCS), a
Government Department.
The satellite era dawned in 1970. India
also had, by 1982, wideband submarine
telephone cable system and Troposcatter
system in the external
telecommunications network.
On April 1, 1986, the Videsh Sanchar
Nigam Limited (VSNL) - a wholly
Government owned corporation - was born
as successor to OCS.
Analogue systems all over the world gave
way to the more efficient and
technically viable digital systems.
Optical Fibre Cable systems now girdle
the globe supplementing the satellites
that the earth.
There were unexpected developments in
mobile communications too. Now it is
possible to communicate and do business
with people on the move - on land, on
the high seas or in the air, even while
you are moving from one place to
another.
These developments also made possible
safety through communications - during
natural calamities like flood or
earthquake or man-made calamities like
war, when conventional systems are
thrown out of gear.
Meanwhile, VSNL introduced Internet
services in India in the year 1995. The
new era of communications started
towards the new millennium.
In February 2002, the Government of
India, as per their disinvestments plan,
released 26% of VSNL's equity to a
strategic partner. Consequently, VSNL
was taken over under the administrative
control of TATAs. It is under the
Management of TATAs - India's best known
industrial house-that VSNL is now
charting its future course.
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