Swadeshi Samriddhi SIM Cards

[Sushubh]

BSNL would get more subscribers if they freaking make it easy for one to get a SIM card.
From my understanding, you have to go to their exchange to get a SIM or get anything done about your connection.
I mean seriously... What decade are they living in? Few months ago, I tried the home delivery route I was told by calling one of their agents. Nothing came out of it.

 

[Sushubh]

Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali is NOT launching a Swadeshi SIM with BSNL, but Twitter is full of MEMES – The Indian Express

this article claims that the company never planned to offer it to public.

 

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[dextermorgan]

yeah. it's kind of amazing. they are not running a mvno. just selling rebranded SIMs. and bsnl is allowing it.
maybe instead of reliance, patanjali would end up taking over bsnl in the coming years.

Its fucking bullshit. BSNL is run by tax payers money. wtf is this shit

 

[v1rus]

BSNL would get more subscribers if they freaking make it easy for one to get a SIM card.
From my understanding, you have to go to their exchange to get a SIM or get anything done about your connection.
I mean seriously... What decade are they living in? Few months ago, I tried the home delivery route I was told by calling one of their agents. Nothing came out of it.

It is not that easy and therefore they need this marketing ploy. It is not about you and me, it is about an avid follower of Baba Ram Dev. Mind you, these followers stand for hours in line to attend Yog Shivirs, visiting exchange to get things done is nothing in comparison.

I am not sure about your experience, but for almost everything Idea also wanted me to visit Idea store to get things done and so we still live in a decade where visiting physical location is a norm whether you like it or not.

 

[dextermorgan]

^ visiting stores is different than visiting exchange.

When I lost my phone, I went to store 5 mins away to get my duplicate jio sim.
I had to travel 40 mins to visit my nearest bsnl exchange to get my duplicate bsnl sim.

 

[v1rus]

I completely understand and agree and as I said, it is difficult and therefore they need this marketing ploy.

In my opinion it is more beneficial to BSNL than to Patanjali. BSNL is gonna get tons of subscriber and they get an attachment with Patanjali brand which, again in my opinion, is more valuable/marketable than the BSNL.

Let's agree to disagree.

 

[dextermorgan]

^ I think you're vastly overestimating the patanjali crowd when compared to total mobile subscribers in india on whole.

 

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