new delhi, Nov. 19 -- State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) reported a loss for the second straight quarter in the current fiscal year after a brief return to profitability in the last two quarters of fiscal 2025. In the second quarter, BSNL reported a net loss of Rs.1,357 crore, wider than the Rs.1,048 crore of Q1 and the Rs.1,241.7 crore it lost in Q2 of FY25, the company's financial statements dated November 14 show. BSNL's higher losses can be attributed to a rise in depreciation and amortization expenses and finance cost for the company. Depreciation and amortisation in the quarter gone by stood at Rs.2,477 crore, 57% more than the figure for the year-ago quarter. It was 14.5% more that the preceding quarter.The firm's revenue from operations during the quarter rose 2.8% sequentially and 6.6% on-year to Rs.5,166.7 crore largely led by rise in revenues from mobile phone services on the back of a launch of 4G services by the company. BSNL has 92.3 million mobile subscribers at end-September, Scindia had said last month. This would rank it behind bigger rivals Reliance Jio's 506 million, Bharti Airtel (364 million), and Vodaone Idea (196.7 million). Communications minister Jyotiraditya Scindia had flagged the expanded depreciation at media briefing last month. "We (BSNL) may not be able to see that run rate of profitability going forward, as company did a capex of Rs.25,000 crore in FY25 and there will be a close to Rs.2,500 crore non-cash hit to bottomline due to depreciation," Scindia had said then. Queries emailed to Department of Telecommunications and BSNL did not elicit any response till press time....