New Delhi: With 3G guidelines to be rolled out next month, the Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) is gearing up to connect rural India with wireless communication linkages.
It would provide broadband access initially to 23,000 locations including district headquarters, Panchayats, District Boards and Zila Parishads in 2008-09.
Speaking on the second day of Global Telecom Summit organised by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM), BSNL CMD Kuldeep Goyal said that the telecom major would provide broadband linkages by going for next generation network from moving on equipment driven technology to software driven technology.
“The next generation network would first be laid at all district headquarters, Panchayats and thereafter to District Boards and Zila Parishads and over six lakh villages across the country,” he informed.
The BSNL would also provide broadband facilities through fibre lines and also complete Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) by 2015. It would quickly adopt 3G networks to provide telecommunication linkages to entire country.
The BSNL would also adopt WiMax facilities with the introduction of 3G services, Goyal said.
According to him, the next challenge for BSNL would be to further reduce the telecom cost by extending telecom linkages at war footing for which the intensive efforts are being made within the organisation in consultation with other relevant departments.
Source: iGovernment
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