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Arpit Sharma July 25th, 2021 5:53 PM 5 COMMENTS

BharatNet Will Pave Way for Mobile Internet in Rural India

The current government at the centre has been keeping Digital India as the banner-child of its policies. The scheme launched a few years back wasn’t just focused on urban digitalisation but also dreamt of extending connectivity to the rural portions of the country. However, unlike the urban areas where the telecom companies themselves are eager to deploy towers, offer various services like broadband and mobile telephony, such is not the... Read More

Arpit Sharma July 20th, 2021 5:07 PM 0 COMMENTS

BharatNet Global Tender Floated by Govt With PPP Model Vision

BharatNet is the ambitious project of the current government to connect 2.5 lakh gram panchayats and 6 lakh villages using a high-speed broadband network. This would bode well for these villages, the connected Community Service Centres, and other e-governance initiatives which are ongoing in the country. As per this latest development, the project, which is being implemented by BBNL (Bharat Broadband Network Limited), has floated a global tender for creation,... Read More

Arpit Sharma July 10th, 2021 10:00 AM 0 COMMENTS

BharatNet Service Quality Row Might Spark Concerns for PM-WANI

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

Arpit Sharma July 1st, 2021 11:58 AM 0 COMMENTS

BharatNet Project Gets Additional Rs 19 Crore to Boost Rural Connectivity Under Viability Gap Funding

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

Shloke Sarkar June 28th, 2021 7:29 PM 3 COMMENTS

Finance Minister Allocates Additional Rs 19,041 Crore to BharatNet Project

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

Bala Yogesh February 26th, 2021 5:16 PM 5 COMMENTS

EchoStar to Supply 4G Backhaul Services to Reliance Jio in 7 States

EchoStar, a global satellite communication solutions provider, in its fourth quarter earnings call on Tuesday said that it is set to offer 4G backhaul solutions to Reliance Jio in seven states across India. The development was shared by Pradman Kaul, president of Hughes Network Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar engaged in the high-speed satellite internet services. In September, 2018, Hughes Communications India said that Reliance Jio had picked... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur February 9th, 2021 1:15 PM 1 COMMENTS

DoT’s Inefficiency Leads to Delay in Bharatnet and LWE Project: Report

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

Bala Yogesh September 8th, 2020 12:06 PM 0 COMMENTS

BharatNet Project to Expand with Tejas Equipment, Over 400,000GB Consumed Per Month

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

Arpit Sharma December 26th, 2019 7:22 PM 0 COMMENTS

BharatNet Programme to Extend Free Wi-Fi and Internet in Villages Till March 2020

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

Chakri K October 15th, 2018 3:37 PM 2 COMMENTS

1.25 Lakh Gram Panchayats to Get High-Speed Broadband Services by March 2019 Under BharatNet

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

Chakri K May 19th, 2018 1:59 PM 4 COMMENTS

250,000 Gram Panchayats to Get Broadband Connectivity Under BharatNet by December 2018

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

Chakri K April 5th, 2018 8:54 PM 1 COMMENTS

Trai Submits Plan Outlining Open Architecture Based Wi-Fi to Government

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is seeking a chance to develop public Wi-Fi hotspots by slashing prices in this new turn of events. Trai on Thursday presented a report to the government which outlined details about open-architecture based Wi-Fi services which would function on interoperability at very low prices. This new move if gone right, is expected to cut the prices of data significantly. The report which was... Read More