(a) the rules and policy regarding the conversion of basis telephone equipments into Caller ID telephone equipments in
the country;
(b) the details of total equipments converted till now in the country, State-wise; and
(c) the time by which all the basic telephone equipments will be converted into the Caller ID equipments?
THE MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY(SHRI A. RAJA)
(a) As per the decision of Management of BSNL all existing basic telephone equipments are to be replaced by caller ID
telephone equipments wherever CLIP facility is available in exchanges in a phased manner.
In case of MTNL Delhi
# Clip instrument is being provided to the customers having landlines plans, i.e. One India. Plan 250 and above.
# Clip instrument is also being provided to all BB Combo Plan customers where monthly service charges are Rs.500/- & above.
In MTNL Mumbai,
# Clip instrument are being provided as replacement to all existing corporate customers, Commercially Important Customers,
VIPs, high end customers subscribing Plan-500 and above, and loyal customers for more than 5 years.
# All New corporate customers, commercially important CIPs, VIPs, high end customers subscribing Plan-500 & above.
(b) Details of total equipment converted till now by BSNL is given in the Annexure. MTNL has provided CLIP phones to
1,90,098 Landlines customers in Delhi & 39,336 Landlines customers in Mumbai.
(c) In respect of BSNL, the exercise of conversion of basic telephone equipments by Caller ID equipments is likely to be
completed by the end of financial year 2009-10. MTNL has already provided Caller ID equipments as per its existing policy.