MTNL's trend of falling fixed line connection reversed ?

After more than three years, state-run firm MTNL has checked the trend of falling fixed line connections as customers are again subscribing to landline phones to avail value-added services like broadband.
"The trend of surrendering the phones, which started in 2004, has been reversed. Two main initiatives - broadband and IPTV have helped us retaining customers," Kuldip Singh, MTNL Director (Technical), told a media agency.
The company has more than 37 lakh fixed line subscribers in Delhi and Mumbai. So far, about five lakh subscribers have left MTNL's fixed line services as they switched to mobile phones. While some of them took MTNL's mobile connection, others opted for private mobile services.
MTNL would soon announce convergent billing for all services like fixed line phone, mobile, broadband and IPTV.
As reported by Economic times - In Delhi, there has been a net addition of fixed line connections for couple of months while in Mumbai it was in the negative zone marginally, Singh said.