BBNL defers Rs 19,041 crore Bharatnet broadband tender bid date to September 14An official source told PTI that the bid dates are likely to be extended further as the queries need to be vetted by the Department of Tele...
31 Aug, 2021, 04.34 PM IST
Niti Aayog expects Rs 35,100 crore from telecom assets by FY24The National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) has valued 13,567 mobile tower assets of BSNL and 1,350 of MTNL at Rs 8,800 crore that can also be...
23 Aug, 2021, 09.22 PM IST
Department of Telecommunications pulls up CSC for 'substandard' BharatNet workIn a letter dated July 13 to CSC’s chief operating officer (COO) Abhishek Singh, the DoT and the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF), ...
19 Jul, 2021, 11.13 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
Cabinet clears additional Rs 19,041 crore for BharatNetThe approval comes within days of finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announcing additional funding of Rs 19,041 crore for the BharatNet pr...
30 Jun, 2021, 07.07 PM IST
Cabinet approves Rs 19,041 cr viability gap funding for BharatNet in 16 statesTelecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the decision to involve private players was taken after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on...
30 Jun, 2021, 04.06 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
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
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
PMO to review progress of BharatNet projectBharatNet is the Centre’s ambitious programme that seeks to connect 2.5 lakh gram panchayats or village blocks with optic-fibre-based netwo...
21 Jul, 2016, 04.59 AM 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
Trai recommends PPP model for BharatNet launchThe national broadband project has repeatedly failed to meet delivery timelines, suffers three-fold cost escalation.
02 Feb, 2016, 04.00 AM IST
Trai backs Public Private Partnership model for BharatNet implementationIn its recommendations to the government Trai broadened the scope of the private sector company or 'concessionaire's' role in implementing ...
01 Feb, 2016, 05.59 PM IST
Trai suggests build-own-operate-transfer model for BharatNetThe cost for setting up the massive broadband network is now estimated to be Rs 72,000-74,000 crore as against the initial estimate of Rs 2...
18 Nov, 2015, 05.30 AM IST