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BharatNet's Phase 2 completion timeline to be extended due to Covid: Dhotre

The timeline for 2nd phase of BharatNet project, earlier slated to be completed by August 2021, will now be extended as its pace was affected by the lockdown and movement curbs imposed by governments

Towards a new India: Last-mile vision a stimulus for rural data demand

The last part of the series analyses the goal of connecting 600,000 villages via optical fibre

PM Modi pitches for internet connectivity in villages; Sterlite Tech up 11%

Cords Cable Industries jumped 15.5%, Birla Cables (10.15%), Paramount Communications (8.94%), and ITI (4.4%) in intra-day trade

BBNL pays Rs 770 cr to BSNL for clearing vendor dues in BharatNet Project

Bharat Broadband Nigam Limited (BBNL) had allocated around 70 per cent of rural broadband network roll-out work to BSNL

Over 12,000 villages to benefit from Rs 1,815-cr BharatNet project: TN CM

Palaniswami said the government would implement highspeed broadband service in cities at a cost of Rs 500 crore under TamilNet initiative

Over Rs 110 bn invested in BharatNet, but functional internet still a dream

Less than 2.5 per cent of India's 250,000 village panchayats have commercial broadband connections

BharatNet phase-2: Jio pays highest fee of Rs 13 crores for bandwidth

Bharti Airtel shelled out Rs 5 crore for bandwidth buy to cover 30,500 village panchayats

BharatNet to connect 150,000 villages with internet by 2019: Things to know

With an outlay of around Rs 34,000 crore, the government aims to connect 1,50,000 panchayats through 1 million km of additional optical fibre

Govt to start Rs 34,000-crore BharatNet phase-2 from today

Under the project, the government aims to connect 150,000 panchayats through 1 million km of additional optical fibre

Telcos keen on providing internet to gram panchayat via BharatNet last-mile

Private telecom majors have all shown interest in providing last- mile connectivity in about 43,000 gram panchayats through the BharatNet project. To make the scheme attractive, the government has announced a rate structure wherein the operators may take the optic fibre on lease and provide broadband connectivity to customers. For asymmetrical bandwidth between block to gram panchayats (GPs), the yearly charges are Rs 700 per Mbps, for up to 10 Mbps. The charges decrease to Rs 200 per Mbps if the operator is leasing the bandwidth for a speed of 1 Gbps. Rates for any intermediate bandwidth shall be proportionally calculated. Operators may also have their own rate plans for customers but the government feels these would have to be lower.Airtel has shown interest for 10,000 GPs, for taking 1 Gbps connectivity on lease. Reliance Jio, Vodafone and Idea are interested in taking 100 Mbps connectivity on lease in about 30,000, 2,000 and 1,000 GPs, respectively.BharatNet aims to provide ...

Wired for BharatNet: Centre to plug the broadband gap in Uttar Pradesh

Project aims to connect 250,000 gram panchayats with broadband by March 2019

Cabinet clears revised implementation strategy for BharatNet

BharatNet aims to provide minimum 100 Mbps broadband connectivity to gram panchayats

Proposal on BharatNet with Cabinet

In the first phase, the government has connected 100,000 gram panchayats

Telecom Ministry proposes revised structure for BharatNet project

The project is being funded by the Universal Service Obligation Fund and executed by Bharat Broadband Network Limited