BSNL Kerala to launch mobile tracking facility

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA: The Kerala circle of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is going to launch a unique service whereby people using BSNL mobile phones can be tracked by calling their mobile phones.

"This is going to be useful for parents to track where their children are. This activation would have a charge and would be billed instantly to the user who owns a post-paid connection of BSNL," K.S. Sreenivasan, chief general manager of Kerala Telecom Circle, stated in a press release.

"This facility is one of the many under the 'resource tracking and management service', to track, monitor and manage fleets with a simple browser that shows the tracked resource in a computer and is used by about 20 of our corporate clients in Kerala," said Sreenivasan.

Kerala State Road Transport Corporation is already using this facility to track its fleet of buses, he said.

BSNL now has over two million mobile connections in Kerala with 1.6 million pre-paid and 390,000 post-paid connections.

It hopes to add another 8.5 million mobile connections in the current fiscal year.