BharatNet is the Centre’s ambitious programme that seeks to connect 2.5 lakh gram panchayats or village blocks with optic-fibre-based netwo...

RailTel Chairman R K Bahuguna blamed the company’s slow pace of OFC deployment primarily to delayed RoW clearances.

To cover about 1 lakh village panchayats, about 2.17 lakh kilometres of incremental cable has to be laid down and 7,188 kilometers of pipe.

BBNL has concluded barely a fraction of the countrywide cable rollout due to continuing delays faced by BSNL in finalising tenders for cabl...

Garg said BSNL and BBNL “need to find solutions jointly“ as the NOFN project is being directly monitored by the prime minister.

The Department of Telecom is looking at various models to expedite the rollout of National Optical Fibre Network that aims to link all panc...

India’s biggest national broadband venture is hanging fire as the Cabinet hasn’t approved a Rs 1,500-crore payout of administrative charges...

BSNL will shortly sign a bandwidth-sharing agreement with Power Grid to boost telecom connectivity across the Northeast.

The communications ministry is likely to miss the revised rollout targets of the venture with Bharat Sanchar Nigam, PowerGrid and RailTel.

The comments by the Universal Services Obligation Fund (USOF) came in response to a query by Rajya Sabha MP and former owner of BPL Mobile.

Cable laying and trenching is the most expensive piece of the communications ministry's ambitious Rs 21,000-crore national broadband rollou...

Govt will dip into the Universal Service Obligation Fund, which has a little over Rs 21,800 crore left to finance a slew of projects.

The Telecom Ministry is likely to create a special purpose vehicle with an authorised capital of Rs 1,000 crore for implementing schemes.

Telecom ministry has accepted FinMin's stance that BSNL must not be entrusted with 20K cr project to build broadband network.

Serious differences from within could stymie the Central government's ambitious plan to bridge the digital divide across the country.

Sam Pitroda, advisor to the PM on IT and Infrastructure, has proposed a Rs 13,228 crore project to connect 2.5 lakh panchayats with broadba...

After the defence forces, it’s now the PowerGrid Corporation which is not prepared to vacate spectrum ahead of the auction in January.