India aims to bring high-speed digital connectivity to every village by 2018 and is keen to share expertise in the area with other nations, the government said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndia\u2019s Department of Telecom, under the Universal Services Obligation (USO) fund, is working to bring high-speed broadband to every village in the country by 2018,\u201d Telecom Secretary J.S. Deepak said at the global conference here organised by the Telecom Equipment and Services Export Promotion Council (TEPC).<\/p>\n
\u201cThe government is working to bring the game-changing impact of technology to all our six lakh villages and the optical fibre network to all rural areas,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Noting that the Indian telecom was currently the \u201cmost happening infrastructural sector in the country\u201d, Deepak dwelt on the unique advantage of Indian products.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndian products offer the unique advantage of impeccable quality at affordable prices,\u201d he said, adding these are based on the \u201cstate-of-the-art technology\u201d and are \u201cfuture proof, in that, they can be upgraded and upscaled and don\u2019t have to be thrown away\u201d.<\/p>\n
Pointing out that Indian products are \u201crobust\u201d, designed for tough climatic and dusty conditions, Deepak said that telecom manufacturing in India was characterised by the synergy between hardware and software.<\/p>\n
\u201cLastly, we have a fast-growing startup eco system, the second largest in the world,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
In his Union Budget presented on February 1, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the government would allocate Rs10,000 crore to expand the Bharat Net project in 2017-18 for high-speed broadband.<\/p>\n
Bharat Net was rebranded from the earlier National Optic Fibre Network (NOFN) project in April 2015, and aims to cover a total of 2.5 lakh village panchayats.<\/p>\n
The Bharat Net project is funded under the USOF set up in 2012 for providing telecom services in rural areas at subsidised rates.<\/p>\n
IANS<\/p>\n
Picture source: Alamy Image<\/p>\n
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