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BSNL starts survey for installation of mobile towers along India-China border
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SME Times News Bureau | 15 Feb, 2019
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has started a survey for installing
mobile towers along the highly sensitive India-China border in Arunachal
Pradesh.
The installation of mobile towers is expected to better the connectivity in the area.
BSNL's
Chief General Manager (CGM) for Assam Circle, Sanddep Govil, said this
on Friday while addressing a press conference and added that the
installation of mobile towers along the India-China border has been
cleared by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT).
Govil said the government has approved a proposal for setting up 2,000 mobile towers along the border in Arunachal Pradesh.
There
are no mobile towers along the India-China border in Arunachal Pradesh
due to various reasons, including bad terrain. This makes it difficult
for the security forces, including the Indo Tibetan Border Police
(ITBP), to maintain a strict vigil along the border.
There have
been instances of intrusion by the Chinese army at different locations
in Arunachal Pradesh. The security forces operating along the border
here have for long demanded the installation of mobile towers for better
connectivity in the region.
Govil said that BSNL is investing
about Rs 200 crore for rolling out 4G services in Assam, which will be
made available from March this year.
"All the equipment has
already arrived at the Kolkata port and is likely to reach here by the
end of this month. A total of 3,500 base transceiver stations (BTS) will
be added as part of the 4G expansion plan. The launch of 4G services
will lead to the capability of using 23 TB of data by the customers per
day," Govil said.
He added that the public sector undertaking has
been growing in Assam faster than its growth in the country. "The
market share of Assam BSNL for the wireless segment is 11.07 per cent
compared to the overall market share of 9.71 per cent in the country,"
Govil said, adding that at present BSNL has a customer base of 25 lakh
in the state in the mobile segment.
Asked about revenue generation, the CGM said that revenues from telecom have gone down.
"But
there is scope of revenue generation for us, as we have recently given
35,000 closed user group (CUG) connections under the National Health
Mission. We have also been asked by the government of India to connect
the courts and jails and provide connections to the treasuries," Govil
said.
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