Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has finalised a contract to buy 10 lakh data cards for 3G services from three vendors. The deal, valued at Rs 120 crore, will be given to HFCL, Teracom and Chinese supplier Huawei.

While HFCL will supply 5.25 lakh 3G cards for Rs 61 crore, Teracom has bagged contract for 4.25 data cards at Rs 51 crore .

Huewei will supply the balance 50,000 cards for Rs 7.5 crore. This is the first time BSNL has adopted online-reverse auction for purchase of any equipment.