Panchayats to have Broadband Connectivity by March 2020

Panchayats to have Broadband Connectivity by March 2020

With an aim facilitate the delivery of e-governance, e- education, e-health, e-banking, internet and other services to rural area.  All panchayats will be provided high speed broadband connections under BharatNet project by March 2020, Union Minister Electronics and Information Technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad informed Parliament. “The Phase II of the project is under implementation, and […]

BSNL crisis continues, employees yet to receive salaries

BSNL crisis continues, employees yet to receive salaries

India’s oldest communication service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is facing a big crisis and the company is unable to give salary to its employees. Now BSNL is in debt of Rs.13,000 Crore. The telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday, blamed stiff competition, high employee cost and no 4G services for the poor […]

No salary for Anil Ambani as Reliance flounders …

No salary for Anil Ambani as Reliance flounders …

Is it time for Reliance communications to do rethink a lot of their strategy? Battle of the Ambani Brothers is on, Rcom vs Jio vs others? The news is that Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani has “voluntarily” decided not to draw any salary or commission from debt laden flagship firm Reliance Communications (RCom) in current […]

BSNL to spread 2G to rural Northeast by 2018?

BSNL to spread 2G to rural Northeast by 2018?

Guwahati:  The idea is to bring ‘mobile networks’ to villages in the northeast. State-run BSNL is expecting to complete its portion of mobile network roll-out project, funded by the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF), in the North East by 2018-end. Observers  say this project has been too long delayed. “The project was approved in September […]