China Telecom to invest RMB20 bln constructing networks in Xinjiang
China Telecom said Monday it has signed a cooperation framework agreement with the government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, promising to invest 20 billion Yuan for the construction and operation of the information networks in the northwest China region in the 2011-2015 period.
According to the agreement, China Telecom will accelerate the implementation of industrialization and informatization confluence, popularize the broadband services to all local villages, construct fiber optic networks, accelerate the implementation of IT technology in local enterprises, speed up the construction of communication infrastructure, boost the development of Internet, and promote the convergence of the Internet, telecom and broadcasting networks in the region.
China Telecom general manager Wang Xiaochu said, China Telecom has accumulatively poured nearly 10 billion Yuan in boosting the e-government construction, Chinese and Tibetan language education, implementation of IT technologies in rural regions, and the industrialization and informatization confluence in Xinjiang, which promoted the construction of basic communications networks, expanded the fields of information services, and enhanced the level of comprehensive information service application.
Indian telco BSNL goes live with Wimax Network
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: India is set to become the biggest base on earth for Wimax by 2012, with the state-owned carrier BSNL going live with the country’s first Mobile Wimax network. The company already has deployments using fixed Wimax but now plans a major national rollout based on 802.16e.
Out of two parallel projects, one for rural areas and other for metro areas, the former has already been launched by state minister for communications and IT, Sachin Pilot. Initially, access will be delivered to Common Service Centers since few people in rural districts will have personal computers or even power supply.
BSNL is planning to work with partners to enable several key applications in order to help to meet the Indian government’s targets to lift the country’s woeful levels of broadband penetration. 1,000 rural districts, 32 in Rajasthan, which will involve 11,500 Common Service Centers, will be covered in the first half while the second half will cover system across the nation, covering 50,000 CSCs.
The broadband tariffs will be very low, starting at INR140 ($3) a month and will aim to harness video to support telemedicine and remote education. Other utility will include utility bill payments, issue of official documents like land or vehicle registrations or birth certificates, state e-government processes and inter-village communications.
BSNL plans massive expansion in mobile services
New Delhi, Aug. 24 (UNI): The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd., (BSNL) has floated a tender for procurement of 63.5 million mobile telephone lines with the aim of achieving the largest ever expansion, IT and Communication Minister, Dayanidhi Maran, said today.
“The capacity expansion of BSNL alone in the next two to three years will be equivalent to the capacity expansion of all the private players put together,” Maran said in the Rajya Sabha.
Answering a supplementary, he said with the implementation of the capacity expansion, not only the coverage of mobile telephony would increase, but the quality of service would also improve.
Members belonging to different parties, including the treasury benches, complained about the poor quality of mobile phone services by the MTNL and BSNL.
Senior CPM member, Sitaram Yechuri, went to the extent of asking the Minister whether the government companies were not installing communication towers so that the private operators could flourish.
Source- http://www.hindu.com/
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