Even before the country is ready for 5G services, the high-speed fiber in every corner of the country, the talks of PM-WANI are rife in the crowds roaming the streets of the pandemic-stricken country. However, as the news of the PM-WANI scheme fills the columns of many newspapers and websites, there is another project of the government which has been in the headlines for some of the wrong reasons, and... Read More
When it comes to flagship schemes by the government to boost connectivity and create a robust Wi-Fi broadband environment in the deepest parts of the country, BharatNet comes to mind. In the latest turn of events, the government has been ideating upon the viability gap funding (VGF) for the BharatNet programme to give it a further stimulus in the rural regions. The VGF will amount to Rs 29,430 crore and... Read More
The Indian Government on Monday announced that it had allocated an additional Rs 19.041-crore in order to divert efforts towards the expansion as well as upgradation of BharatNet, which is a nationwide initiative aimed at connecting over 6 lakh villages with the optic fibre-based network so as to ensure the delivery of Internet services. Out of the targeted 2.5 lakh gram panchayats or village blocks, spanning over 6 lakh villages,... Read More
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has delayed a lot on preparing a cabinet note for the approval of the rural broadband project of the government ‘Bharatnet’ even after getting approval from the Digital Communication Commission (DCC) a year back. The Bharatnet project was meant to cover all 2.5 lakh village panchayats with broadband networks and should have been completed by March 2019. Almost two years later, the government has only... Read More
Tejas Networks on Monday said that it has received purchase order from L&T Construction and Sterlite Technologies for its Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON), a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) equipment. The company said that the purchase order is worth Rs 32 crore and that the GPON equipment will be used in the BharatNet project in South India. BharatNet, the “world’s largest rural broadband project” aims to provide high-speed broadband connectivity over optical... Read More
In the recent data surge and the growing demand for data, the government has also played a big role. One of the major and audacious projects to connect the villages and the rural areas by the government has been BharatNet. Now in a new development in this regard, the Union minister of electronics and Information Technology has said that the common service centres in the concerned areas will provide internet... Read More
The Indian government is working hard on bringing high-speed broadband connectivity to gram panchayats across the country under the project BharatNet. Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha today reaffirmed that the final phase of the BharatNet project would be completed on schedule by March 2019. Under the final schedule, the government will be rolling out high-speed broadband services to 1.25 lakh gram panchayats located across the country. Nearly 50% of the work... Read More
The Government has put a lot at stake by launching the BharatNet project and is expecting similar outcomes from it. Now it seems that the results are starting to show, as the new reports reveal. As per a report by DoT which was released on April 30, "190% increase in data consumption has been recorded during the last six months in rural areas where broadband internet is provided through Wi-Fi... Read More
The Department of Telecom (DoT) advanced the deadline to December-end for delivering broadband connectivity to all village panchayats under its BharatNet programme, a senior official told PTI. Under India’s broadband project - BharatNet - the government had earlier set deadline for optical fibre rollout across 250,000 gram panchayats by March 2019, but now it hopes to achieve this by the end of the year. “The DoT is hopeful of completing... Read More
The government yesterday allocated various telecom network projects to state-run telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL). The government has allocated Rs 25,000 crore for completing the assigned tasks. Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha informed this news to Parliament yesterday. These big projects include laying of optical fibre based network dedicated for use by Defence worth Rs 13,334 crore and Rs 6,500 crore for execution of the second phase of BharatNet Project.... Read More
The government on Monday has kicked off the second phase of the BharatNet project with an outlay of Rs.. 31,000 crores. The project now aims to provide high-speed broadband to 2.5 lakh gram panchayats by March 2019, and for the first time, private telecom operators have signed for the project to take their services to rural parts of the country. The Mukesh Ambani-led telco, Reliance Jio, has made an initial... Read More
The first phase of Indian government's BharatNet project will be completed by December this year, having already covered 83,000 gram panchayats, Aruna Sundararajan, Secretary, Department of Telecommunications, Government of India, said on Thursday. BharatNet project, which aims to deploy high-speed optical fibre cables across rural areas of the country, would provide 100,000 gram panchayats with broadband connectivity by laying underground optic fibre cable lines. The telecom department is aggressively monitoring... Read More
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