BSNL has shut down all its cellular phone towers along the India Nepal border in view of security concerns.

SBNL has shut down all its cellular phone towers along the IndiaNepal border in view of security concerns. The company has switched off more than a dozen of its base transceiver station towers in a stretch of about 500 km along the Nepal border, disrupting mobile services in the region. The step is being attributed to increasing activities of the ISI, smuggling of arms, counterfeit currency and drugs from across the border.