MPs fume at MTNL net service, seek private ISPs

NEW DELHI: State-run Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) may lose its exclusive rights to provide internet facilities to Members of Parliament following complaints regarding the quality of service.

Sources said a meeting of the house committee of Parliament last week discussed the possibility of engaging private internet service providers to supply high-speed broadband facilities to MPs since they had faced “acute difficulties” in filing and receiving official documents received by them from the Parliament secretariat.