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The pace of providing internet connection in rural India under BharatNet project will be expedited with the support of universal service obligation fund, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said...
All panchayats will be provided high speed broadband connections under BharatNet project by March 2020, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad informed Parliament. “The Phase II of...
In a move to sharpen accountability and bring stability to internet services in rural area, BBNL is planning to take over operations and maintenance work of...
Several government telecom projects funded by the Universal Service Obligations Fund (USOF) are facing time and cost overruns for reason like delay in tendering and decision...
Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan has directed state-owned BBNL and BSNL to initiate disciplinary action against officials who failed to fix non-functional broadband equipment under the ambitious BharatNet project, sources said. This is the...
Telecom secretary Aruna Sundararajan Monday said states should operationalise the connectivity in gram panchayats or village blocks within the next 60 days, otherwise Centre would transfer...
The BharatNet initiative, that aims to connect 2.5 lakh gram panchayats or village blocks, has crossed halfway mark, additional secretary, Department of Telecom (DoT), Anshul Prakash...
BharatNet, the ambitious national broadband venture, is facing major deployment challenges in the country’s Hindi heartland, a top government official said. Uttar Pradesh has been reluctant...
Drawing flak from the telecom department over gaps in maintenance of BharatNet infrastructure, BSNL has promised to take action against erring officers, but asserted that its maintenance responsibility pertains to...
Fearing that the work done on BharatNet – Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet project to connect gram panchayats (GPs) in the country – will be lost,...
The government’s aim to provide high-speed broadband in villages using BharatNet infrastructure has failed to achieve any significant success as the utilisation target to provide last...
The project is aimed at facilitating the delivery of e-governance, e-health, e-education, e-banking and other services to citizens across the country. Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha on Monday exuded...
The government is working on a proposal that would benefit incumbent service providers and infrastructure firms to significantly increase fibre deployment that could facilitate Wi-Fi hotspots...
Apart from the projects in the pipeline, trends over the last 10 years suggest a 36 percent CAGR growth in IP traffic, resulting in a 17...