Bharatnet News
BSNL gets ₹770 cr from Bharat Broadband Nigam to clear BharatNet vendor dues
BSNL had requested payment of ₹1,033 crore from BBNL as an advance to clear the pending liabilities of UP East and MP CirclesBharat Broadband Nigam Limited had allocated around 70% of rural broadband network roll-out work to BSNL
1 min read27 Dec 2019Free WiFi to all villages connected via Bharat Net till March 2020: Ravi Shankar Prasad
The scheme focuses on empowering the entire village community by providing access to education, health or financial services through the digital mediumCurrently, 48,000 villages connected under the BharatNet project have WiFi access
1 min read25 Dec 2019Telcos to install over 57,500 mobile towers in rural areas in FY’20: Prasad
Connectivity in uncovered villages is being provided in a phased manner, said the ministerAs per 2018 data, 5.54 lakh villages are covered with mobile services
1 min read10 Jul 2019Telecom dept to sell fibre assets built for BharatNet
DoT plans to outright sell or lease Bharat’s fibre assets to private players after a bidding processTrai has also urged the government to auction BharatNet infra due to poor utilization of the fibre assets
2 min read21 Feb 2019Trai asks telecom dept to auction BharatNet assets to private firms
The move comes against the backdrop of concerns at what it sees as poor utilization of digital infrastructure built by the government under BharatNetAs of 20 January 2018, over 300,000km of fibre optic cable had been laid and 116,000 gram panchayats have been connected with fibre and equipment
2 min read29 Jan 2019BSNL vows swift action on BharatNet concerns; says responsible for upkeep of optical fibre portion
The telecom PSU has also sounded out Department of Telecom (DoT) about ₹617 crore of dues pending from Bharat Broadband Network Ltd (BBNL), as operation and maintenance payment for BharatNet project
1 min read18 Nov 2018Govt to launch app for access to public Wi-Fi hotspots
The app will allow users to get on board the public Wi-Fi through an OTP and automatically log when accessing a public Wi-Fi the next time
3 min read24 Oct 2018Govt plans Rs10,000 crore tender to set up more rural Wi-Fi hotspots
The telecom dept will soon issue a revised to set up five public Wi-Fi hotspots in every gram panchayat, to ensure higher proliferation of high-speed rural broadband across 25,000 gram panchayats
2 min read21 Jun 2018Has BharatNet fulfilled its end task of providing functional internet?
The status of the BharatNet project and the government’s claims need to be taken with a large dose of salt
3 min read17 May 2018ITI Ltd to have order book of about Rs10,000 crore by March-end
During 2016-17, Palakkad unit of ITI earned maximum profit and Rae Bareli unit was under maximum loss
1 min read14 Mar 2018Popular Topics
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