BSNL brings "DATAMAIL" App in 8 Indian languages

BSNL has offered free E-Mail Address service in 8 Indian languages to its broadband users by launching a “DataMail” service. Now BSNL broadband users will be able to open an email ID in DataMail service in their own language.

“Providing the linguistic email address is one-of-its-kind initiative in the world to achieve our Prime Minister’s vision of Digital India. It is now possible in every part of India to have an email address in their own language and communicate in the preferred language,” said Anupam Shrivastav, Managing Director, BSNL.

“The linguistic email service offered by BSNL will have DataOne.Bharat domain and email address will be offered in eight regional languages, including Hindi,  Gujarati,  Urdu , Punjabi , Tamil, Telugu , Bengali  and Marathi. DataMail is free to be downloaded from any Android or iOS system through their respective playstore,” announced N. K. Gupta, Director CFA in his statement.

Ajay Data, Founder & CEO, Data XGen, said, “Our fully ‘made-in-India’ software product enabling DataMail service is a revolution in the world as many countries are waiting to inject the linguistic email address to empower the non-English speakers of the world. We are happy to contribute to the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s Digital India dream by partnering with BSNL, country’s strongest network telecom company having rural and remote connect.”

As per Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators Report (April-June 2016) released by TRAI, total internet subscribers in India is about 350.48 million which is just about 30 per cent of the country’s population. So, about 70 per cent of the population is not having access to the internet and most of these belong to rural India.

On the other side, Indian languages account for less than 0.1 per cent content on world wide web. Also, over 89-per cent population is non-English speaking and unable to read and communicate via email as the language utilized to communicate is English. The most spoken languages in India in 2016, according to our analysis based on secondary data, are approximately Hindi (544.39 million), Bengali (107.60 million), Telugu (95.40 million), Marathi (92.74 million), Tamil (78.41 million), Urdu (66.47 million), Gujarati (59.44 million), Kannada (48.96 million), Punjabi (37.55 million) and Assamese (16.98 million). The total of population using these key languages comes about 1147.95 million, that is a larger share of the current population in India.

Steps to use this Service

** BSNL broadband customers can use DataMail app which is free to be downloaded from any Android or iOS system through their respective playstore.

** User will have to select the language in which they want his/her email address.

** Insert the mobile number

** Select the checkbox “I am a BSNL broadband Customer”

** Insert BSNL broadband number with STD code

** You will receive an OTP on your registered mobile number

** Type the desired email address in your own language

** Start using and share with your friends!