ITI Ltd shares zoom 9% after emerging as L1 bidder for Rs 3,000 crore projectITI Share Price: ITI Ltd shares surged 9% after being awarded a Rs 3,022 crore BharatNet project for Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal, and And...
08 Nov, 2024, 11.45 AM IST
Tech and telcos in a tight race for BharatNet projectThe pre-bid conference for the rollout of the second phase of the project, which is expected to link 3.61 lakh villages by August 2023 reco...
17 Aug, 2021, 06.00 AM IST
BharatNet quality poor despite payments to CSC: CAGIn a 94-page draft report, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) said despite huge payments to CSC, the maintenance of cable a...
17 Jul, 2021, 11.10 AM IST
Auditor slams Common Service Centre for poor service quality in BharatNet programmeIn a 94-page draft report, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) said that despite a huge payment to CSC, the maintenance of c...
08 Jul, 2021, 12.07 PM IST
Digital India: Gujarat deploys 18,000 kilometres of fibre under BharatNet-II initiative"We have added 18,000 kilometres of fibre in a record time of 10 months with proactive support of ecosystem players including state-run Ind...
08 Dec, 2019, 10.05 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
BBNL plans to take over operations, maintenance work of BharatNet infraBharat Broadband Nigam Limited (BBNL) had allocated around 70 per cent of rural broadband network roll-out work to BSNL and about 15 per ce...
02 Jun, 2019, 02.14 PM IST
Internet access in India has crossed 50 crore milestoneAs per the latest information from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, by the end of Sept 2018, there were 56 crore narrowband and b...
28 Dec, 2018, 11.06 AM IST
Some states charging 50 times higher for telecom infra rollout: DoTTelecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan said that some states and UTs are charging up to 50 times higher fees from companies for rolling out t...
17 Dec, 2018, 09.55 PM IST
Uttar Pradesh ‘giving a cold shoulder’ to BharatNet ProjectUttar Pradesh has been reluctant to use the BharatNet optic fibre broadband network for electronic delivery of public services.
21 Nov, 2018, 09.20 AM IST
Telcos need to give 30 day notice to customers before closing service: SundararajanThe development has come against the background of abrupt closure of services by some telecom operators recently which left their subscribe...
17 Oct, 2018, 10.50 PM IST
Wi-Fi adds wing to BharatNet, data usage jumps 190% in villagesKarnataka at present has largest number of GPs where BharatNet infrastructure is used for Wi-Fi choupal project at 12,978 locations, follow...
27 May, 2018, 02.13 PM IST
Government rolls out BharatNet Phase 2, aims 100% connectivity by 2020The Department of Telecom requested all states to provide a list of unconnected villages so that all of them can be connected with telecom ...
14 Nov, 2017, 01.26 PM 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
DoT looks to bring in new telecom policy by February: Manoj Sinha"We expect high level committee working on it to finalise draft by end of December and place it for public comments," the Communications Mi...
07 Nov, 2017, 11.01 PM IST
Tamil Nadu tops urban net subscriber numbers; Maharashtra, Delhi tied in 2nd spotThe telecom circle of UP East has the highest number of rural internet subscribers at 11.2 million and almost a matching number of urban us...
24 Jul, 2016, 12.50 PM IST