BSNL, the state-owned Telecom Company of India has planned to
establish links in all villages of the country including rural,
far-flung areas through an ambitious Rs 20,000 crore project by 2014.
"The Rs 20,000 crore project for the creation of a 'National Optical
Fibre Network' (NOFN) for providing internet and other
telecommunications connectivity to villages has been launched recently.
It would be completed by the next two years," BSNL CMD R.K. Upadhyaya
told in Agartala on Saturday.
BSNL hopes that they could provide banking, health and other basic
services online up to the villages and rural areas through NOFN.
The senior BSNL official also informed that, to improve the
telecommunications connectivity in the northeastern region, BSNL has
undertaken projects to upgrade the existing Optical Fibre Cable (OFC)
network and RailTel cable network. Currently, BSNL has OFC networks with
some European countries, Nepal, Myanmar and Bhutan, he also told.
Currently, 80 percent of the landline connections, 90 percent of the
broadband connections and around 30 percent of the mobile connections in
India have been provided by BSNL.
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