CalTel to pump in Rs 50 crore at New Town smart city

State-run Calcutta Telephones has drawn up a plan to set up telecom service and internet facilities at New Town smart city for an investment of Rs 50 crore.
Announcing this here today, Chief General Manager of Calcutta Telephones S P Tripathi told reporters that the public sector utility plans to set up 30 new base transceiver stations (BTS) and 20 telephone exchanges across New Town in consultation with HIDCO.
Calcutta Telephones also proposes to set up 87 wi-fi hotspots at various locations in New Town to be identified by HIDCO within the next four years, he said.
The government-owned organisation, which has recently recorded an upsurge in landline connections across Kolkata, has a target to rope in 15,000 landline customers, 7,000 plus mobile connections and over 5,000 fibre-to-home connectivity in the New Town smart city within 3-4 years, Tripathi said.

"BSNL expects to generate a large business volume from the resident netizens and the various IT firms in the New Town smart city area, where works will begin within two months," Tripathi said.
Replying to a query, General Manager (Customer Mobility) Debashish Sarkar said, to tackle the menace of call drops from their end, Calcutta Telephones would add 350 more BTS to the existing number of 1271 BTS in the Kolkata area.
Apart from this, Calcutta Telephones has also introduced a number of affordable landline, broadband and mobile plans at a competitive price in comparison to other telecom service providers, GM (CFA) K C Ghosh said.

It would shortly organise a series of road shows across the city to woo prospective customers.