BSNL’s ambitious plans for rural India
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is the leading broadband service provider in India. Owned by the government of India, BSNL has the widest reach among all internet service providers operating in the city.
DataOne, a broadband service provided by broadband already covers more than 700 cities in the country. This September will see broadband reaching more than twenty thousand rural locations like panchayats, zila parishads, and district headquarters connect to the rest of the world through broadband, that is, when BSNL’s new, ambitious project materializes.
The service provider will employ advanced software technology for making this plan come alive. BSNL is also looking at making the telecom and broadband usage more cost-effective for its consumers.
Apart from this rural-reach plan, BSNL has quite a number of plans in its kitty. Extensive fiber networks across the country and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) are just to name a couple of its plans. BSNL will be employing 3G telecom networks all over the country.
With government of India’s dream to offer free, high-speed broadband to all the citizens of India by 2009, I wonder what would happen to the other service providers in the country. They must gear up for the challenge.