Telecom

We can leverage the existing highways to roll out a quick and cost-effective, high-quality fiber optic network throughout the country, digitally and physically connecting the last person standing.

BharatNet is expected to provide the backbone as well as the last-mile optical fiber-based connectivity to homes across all villages in the country.

As India has moved aggressively towards smart cities in the last nine years, it has become imperative that we bring in standards into the buildings of these smart cities, that enforce access to connectivity.

Most advanced economies have some form or the other of MTCTE that is used to ensure the quality of telecom equipment used, as well as acts as a deterrent to poor quality imports.

C-DEP report highlights measures that need to be urgently taken to make India – which already has the capacity far greater than the domestic demand – the world capital in optical fibre.

If BharatNet procurement is done with preference to domestic production, it would lead to an additional GDP growth of 2.5% and would lead to a robust communications equipment manufacturing industry that can capture a significant share of the global market, thus contributing more to the economy.

It is critical to protect our networks from adversarial attacks.

Learning from the experiences of National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), the BharatNet project for laying broadband across 2.5 lakh gram panchayats needs to incorporate… Continue reading India wins if Bharat wins

India needs to build its own satellite infrastructure for individual and home connectivity and should not miss the bus.