New Delhi, July 26: State-owned BSNL on Saturday sought to allay customer apprehensions on recent reports relating to disclosure of telephone bill data to various authorities, saying there is no intention of supplying such data as a matter of routine. "BSNL will like to inform that such data has never been supplied in the past nor there is any intention to do so in future as a matter of routine. It is further clarified that Ministry of Finance has agreed to relax during the 2002-03, the condition for filing of return in those cases where people were owning two telephones," a BSNL statement said here.
BSNL said that Finance Ministry's move had made it easy for the people to acquire as many telephones as needed.
"Our customers are assured that BSNL's commercial policy is not making known the bills of their customers to any outside agency," it added. Bureau Report