GFGNL to deliver 25000 fiber to home connections in rural areas for greater internet connectivityGujarat Fiber Grid Network Limited plans to supply 25,000 Fiber-to-Home connections to rural households, offering services such as Wi-Fi, c...
07 Jan, 2025, 02.15 PM IST
BharatNet Phase-III to create nearly 25k jobs: TeamLease"The recently launched phase III of BharatNet marks a significant shift in strategy," said Subburathinam P, chief strategy officer at TeamL...
26 Nov, 2024, 06.04 AM IST
ITI stock jumps 10% after emerging lowest bidder for BharatNet Phase-3 projectITI Share Price: ITI Ltd.'s shares surged 10.3% after the company emerged as the lowest bidder for three packages of the BharatNet Phase-3 ...
11 Nov, 2024, 11.00 AM IST
Rural broadband project lags over planning glitchesBharatNet aims to provide broadband connectivity across rural India but faces delays and increased costs. Equipment worth crores is poorly ...
14 Sep, 2024, 06.04 PM IST
12000 Uttarakhand villages to get net connectivity under BharatNet project 2.0The Centre gave its nod to implement the BharatNet 2.0 project in Uttarakhand on Monday when Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat met IT Mi...
22 Feb, 2021, 05.19 PM IST
Government disburses Rs 20,431 crore for BharatNet projectAccording to official estimates shared in November 2017, the total cost of both phases of BharatNet was Rs 45,000 crore.
18 Jul, 2019, 04.07 PM IST
Budget 2019: BharatNet to be speeded upThe FM said the government would dip into the Universal Services Obligation Fund (USOF) corpus to enable BharatNet to boost rural broadband...
05 Jul, 2019, 12.27 PM IST
1.19 lakh village blocks service-ready under BharatNet- I: BBNL CMDSarvesh Singh, chairman of Bharat Broadband Network, said focus was on infrastructure expansion and attributed delay to several issues such...
05 Jun, 2019, 05.35 PM IST
HFCL bags Rs 879 crore deal from TCILTCIL has won bid from state-run telecom operator BSNL for rolling out national broadband project BharatNet and it has sub-contracted the sa...
05 Oct, 2018, 10.25 PM IST
1.10 lakh gram panchayats given optical fibre connectivity: GovernmentUnion minister Narendra Singh Tomar told the Lok Sabha that the government has taken initiatives to provide Internet/ e-panchayat facility ...
08 Feb, 2018, 02.00 PM IST
One lakh gram panchayats become internet-service ready in Phase 109 Jan, 2018, 06.52 AM IST
Jio, Airtel take lead in signing up for BharatNet connectivityReliance Jio has lead the pack with a initial payment of Rs 13 crore for taking fibre connectivity from Bharat Broadband Network Limited, t...
13 Nov, 2017, 08.06 PM IST
Government plans Rs 3,600 crore subsidy to telcos for BharatNetWith Phase 1 of BharatNet set to complete by the end of 2017 – which will give fibre connectivity to 1 lakh gram panchayats at an investmen...
13 Nov, 2017, 09.03 AM IST
Government plans WiFi for all panchayats by March 2019 at a cost of Rs 3,700 croreThe government expects to start broadband services with about 1,000 megabit per second (1 gbps) across 1 lakh gram panchayats by the end of...
07 Sep, 2017, 07.49 PM IST
Second phase of BharatNet okayed, deadline extended by a quarter to March 2019The Cabinet on Wednesday approved a budget of Rs 42,068 crore for BharatNet programme. Of this, Rs 18,792 crore will be for the second phas...
19 Jul, 2017, 11.40 PM IST
80,000 gram panchayats now have broadband: GovtAs per the govt, a total of one lakh gram panchayats were to be provided with broadband connectivity under BharatNet by March end this year.
31 Mar, 2017, 07.26 PM IST
Centre asks states to follow Andhra Pradesh plan for BharatNet projectThe progress of the project implementation has slowed down due to the inability of the company to procure optical network termination equip...
17 May, 2016, 04.02 PM IST