Tripura will be gateway for
reliable and super-fast Internet
facility as Bangladesh government has agreed to allow India to use unspent bandwidth in the neighbouring country’s Cox Bazar, a BSNL official said today.
“An agreement of using unspent bandwidth available at Bangladesh’s Cox Bazar has been
signed recently.
The BSNL has taken initiative to
implement the ambitious plan at the earliest,” Chief General Manager (NE-circle) of BSNL, D P Singh said.
As per the agreement, Bangladesh government would allow the BSNL to use 10 GB Internet connectivity which could bring a revolution not only in the northeast but also some mainland
states, he said.
The BSNL will have to pay Rs 7.2 crore annually to Bangladesh for using submarine cable laid at Cox Bazar.
To carry forward the plan, Union
Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad is scheduled to arrive here in the next couple of days, Singh said. “After a hectic persuasion spanning over 4
years, an agreement was signed with Dhaka during Prime Minister Narendra Modi ’s visit to Bangladesh on June 5.
We would now lay the optical fibre cable network from Agartala to the
Integrated Check Post at Akhaura in the Indo- Bangla international border to connect Cox Bazar’s submarine bandwidth,” he said. “If everything falls in right place, the proposed OFC network connecting Agartala with Cox
Bazar would be completed by next three to four months.
Once, the network is linked, Internet
facility will be at par with the other mainland states like Delhi, Mumbai and Chenni,” he said.
“Once the alternative line is put in place,
connectivity here would be as good as Delhi or Mumbai,” Singh said. On the improvement in network, he said BSNL had planned to use transmission line of Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) to provide a better telecom
service to the NE region.
Besides, similar kind of network could be set up by using Tripura State Electrical Company Ltd ’s existing higher power transmission line.
To strengthen Broadband service, a new plan-hotspot had already been introduced and as many as 173 hotspots would be installed in the NE to provide service to subscribers, he said.
http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/tripura-to-get-high-speed-internet-connectivity-from-bangladesh/
reliable and super-fast Internet
facility as Bangladesh government has agreed to allow India to use unspent bandwidth in the neighbouring country’s Cox Bazar, a BSNL official said today.
“An agreement of using unspent bandwidth available at Bangladesh’s Cox Bazar has been
signed recently.
The BSNL has taken initiative to
implement the ambitious plan at the earliest,” Chief General Manager (NE-circle) of BSNL, D P Singh said.
As per the agreement, Bangladesh government would allow the BSNL to use 10 GB Internet connectivity which could bring a revolution not only in the northeast but also some mainland
states, he said.
The BSNL will have to pay Rs 7.2 crore annually to Bangladesh for using submarine cable laid at Cox Bazar.
To carry forward the plan, Union
Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad is scheduled to arrive here in the next couple of days, Singh said. “After a hectic persuasion spanning over 4
years, an agreement was signed with Dhaka during Prime Minister Narendra Modi ’s visit to Bangladesh on June 5.
We would now lay the optical fibre cable network from Agartala to the
Integrated Check Post at Akhaura in the Indo- Bangla international border to connect Cox Bazar’s submarine bandwidth,” he said. “If everything falls in right place, the proposed OFC network connecting Agartala with Cox
Bazar would be completed by next three to four months.
Once, the network is linked, Internet
facility will be at par with the other mainland states like Delhi, Mumbai and Chenni,” he said.
“Once the alternative line is put in place,
connectivity here would be as good as Delhi or Mumbai,” Singh said. On the improvement in network, he said BSNL had planned to use transmission line of Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) to provide a better telecom
service to the NE region.
Besides, similar kind of network could be set up by using Tripura State Electrical Company Ltd ’s existing higher power transmission line.
To strengthen Broadband service, a new plan-hotspot had already been introduced and as many as 173 hotspots would be installed in the NE to provide service to subscribers, he said.
http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/tripura-to-get-high-speed-internet-connectivity-from-bangladesh/
