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Bharat Broadband Network

January 01, 1970

Not to be confused with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited.

BharatNet, also known as Bharat Broadband Network Limited (BBNL), is a central public sector undertaking, set up by the Department of Telecommunications, a department under Ministry of Communications of the Government of India for the establishment, management, and operation of the National Optical Fibre Network to provide a minimum of 100 Mbit/s broadband connectivity to all 250,000-gram panchayats in the country, covering nearly 625,000 villages, by improving the middle layer of nation-wide broadband internet in India to achieve the goal of Digital India.[1][2][3][4]

Bharat Broadband Network Limited
Company typeCentral Public Sector Undertaking
IndustryBroadband
Founded25 February 2012; 12 years ago (2012-02-25)
HeadquartersNew Delhi,
India
Area served
India
Key people
ServicesInternet
OwnerDepartment of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, Government of India
Websitebbnl.nic.in

BharatNet Phase-I, connecting 100,000 village councils covering 300,000 villages, was completed by December 2017.[1] BharatNet Phase-II will be completed by 31 March 2023 to connect the remaining 150,000 village councils covering 325,000 villages in 16 states (July 2021 update).[5] The last mile connectivity, with a total of 700,000 Wi-Fi hotspots to cover all 625,000 villages of India by adding 2 to 5 Wi-Fi hotspots per gram panchayat and a minimum of one Wi-Fi hotspot per village, have been created by connecting high-speed 4G base tower stations of commercial telecom operators to BharatNet, whereby commercially non-viable Wi-Fi hotspots will be subsidized by the union government grant of ₹36 billion (equivalent to ₹50 billion, US$630 million or €620 million in 2023) to sustain the operation.[2][6][7]

BharatNet is the world's largest rural broadband connectivity program,[4] which is built under the Make in India initiative with no involvement of foreign companies.[1][8][7] It is both an enabler and a beneficiary of other key government schemes, such as Digital India,[4] Make in India,[1] the National e-Governance Plan, UMANG, Bharatmala, Sagarmala, Parvatmala, the dedicated freight corridors, industrial corridors, UDAN-RCS and Amrit Bharat Station Scheme.

History edit

Origin and slow pace of implementation (2011) edit

On 25 October 2011, the Government of India approved the National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) initiative, later renamed as BharatNet,[9] to connect all 250,000 gram panchayats in the country covering nearly 625,000 villages, by utilizing the existing optical fibre network and extending it to the gram panchayats.[10] To achieve this, Bharat Broadband Network was incorporated as a Special Purpose Vehicle(SPV) on 25 February 2012 under Companies Act of 1956.[11] Between 2011 and 2014, project did not take off as planned,[6] and only 350 km of optical fibre, out of 300,000 km optical fibre network needed for the Phase-I, was laid.[6][7] Between 2014 and 2017, the original Phase-I target of laying 300,000 km of optical fibre was completed under the new BJP government.[6]

Implementation boost in 2014 edit

The BharatNet project picked up pace under the Digital India initiative after Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power, he renamed the project as the "BharatNet", made several changes to expedite the project, significantly enhanced the BharatNet funding to several billion dollars under the Digital India, set ambitious time-bound implementations deadlines, appointed government public sector units (BSNL, RailTel, and PowerGrid Corp) for the swift implementation and monitoring, and to bypass the right of way issues for laying the optical fibre cable network the existing government-owned roads, rail lines, and power lines were used.[7] Bangalore based United Telecoms Limited won the bid, being almost 80% lower than the second-lowest bidder ITI Limited followed by Tejas, STL, etc. BharatNet collaborated with other government entities such as C-DOT, Telecommunications Consultants India Limited and National Informatics Centre for the design and rollout plan of BharatNet NOFN Project.[10] BharatNet assigned the execution work of network roll out to several other Government of India Public Sector Units, namely BSNL, RailTel and Power Grid Corporation of India.[10] Project was rolled out as a collaboration between the Union Government (to provide broadband connectivity at sub-district Block-level), state governments (optical fibre to gram panchayat level) and private sector companies (Wi-Fi hotspots in each village and connections to the individual homes).[2][12] Union government total share is ₹450 billion (equivalent to ₹630 billion, US$7.9 billion or €7.7 billion in 2023), the rest will be funded by the respective state governments.[2]

Implementation partners edit

There are 36 states and union territories of India, including 28 states and 9 UTs. BSNL was awarded work for 18 of these, RailTel received work in 8 and Power Grid Corporation of India in 5.[9] BSNL was awarded work for 18+ states and UTs, namely Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Assam, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh (divided into two projects, UP East and UP West), Uttarakhand and West Bengal.[9] RailTel was awarded work for 8+ states and UTs, namely Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Puducherry and Tripura.[9] Power Grid Corporation of India was awarded work for 5 states, namely Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha and Telangana.[9] Delhi is included with Phase-I BSNL work for Haryana. Goa is also included with Phase-I BSNL work for Maharastra. Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu are included with Phase-II work for RailTel. Tripura is likely included with Phase-II RailTel work for the Northeast India.

Project features edit

Benefits edit

BharatNet will provide more employment opportunities, improved service delivery (online e-gram panchayat services, e-governance, e-education, e-health, e-medicine, e-grievances, e-agriculture, e-citizen, etc.), and an impetus to the Make in India, Digital India and Startup India initiatives.[1][6][7] According to Morgan Stanley's research, of India's 33% internet penetration in November 2017[needs update] only 15% and 2% of total internet users use online shopping and retail shopping respectively, estimated to go up to 78% penetration, 62% online shoppers and 15% online retail shopper respectively by 2027.[13]

As per study by the ICRIER, every 10% increase in the usage of internet in India will add ₹4.5 trillion (equivalent to ₹6.3 trillion, US$79 billion or €77 billion in 2023) leading to a 3.3% increase in GDP of India, a number that will go up after the completion of Phase-II in March 2019.[1][6] By the end of BharatNet Phase-II in March 2019, the total current fibre optical network will grow by 100% to 10 million kilometres.[6][7] This 100% increment in the fibre optic network would result in several hundred percent increment in the internet usage when in addition to 625,000 villages (each with minimum 100 Mbit/s), 2,500,000 government institutions and 5,000,000 households will also be connected to the BharatNet broadband by the time it is completed.[6][14]

To put the potential gains things in perspective, during the early phase of the project in 2018, India had a population of 1.3 billion people (1.36 billion in 2021), 1.23 billion Aadhaar digital biometric identities, 1.21 billion mobile phones, 446 million smartphones, 560 million internet users (800 million in 2021), 35% internet penetration (57% in 2021), and 51% growth in e-commerce.[15][16] BharatNet has stated goal of 100 Mbit/s internet speed, and in Q1 2020 India ranked 3rd with 15.34 Mbit/s wireless/mobile internet speed and 70th with 55.76 Mbit/s fixed broadband speed (also see countries by Internet connection speed). BharatNet will expedite broadband and smartphone penetration and speed and their multiplier impact on the economy.

Funding edit

The government has discounted the bulk BharatNet bandwidth rates to the commercial telecom operators by 76% to enable them to offer the highly discounted, affordable, competitive, and commercially viable BharatNet-enabled wireless cellular 4G broadband deals to the rural customers.[6][7] The ₹450 billion (equivalent to ₹630 billion, US$7.9 billion or €7.7 billion in 2023) union government share of funding will come from the Universal Services Obligation Fund of the Department of Telecommunications.[3] It will be rolled out with the additional funding by state governments to connect all gram panchayats in India.[12]

Make in India edit

Both the optical fibre and the Gigabit-capable passive optical network broadband equipment, made to account for the dust and power outage issues in the rural areas, are made in India by C-DOT with no involvement of foreign companies.[1] GPON products (see below) supplied by United Telecoms Limited (UTL) which are manufactured in India and the technology is indigenously developed by Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT).[17][18]

Bharat Net as middle layer edit

GPON fiber deployment edit

C-DOT has also inked technology transfer pacts with six Indian vendors which include Indian Telephone Industries Limited (ITI Ltd), Tejas Networks, VMC, Sai Systems, UTL and SM Creative to manufacture the gear on winning the contracts[citation needed]. UTL emerged as the competitive bid winner and obtained the GPON supply contract for a value of approximately Rs 1000 Cr. The companies like ITI Ltd, Tejas Networks, Sterlite, ZTE and Larsen & Toubro lost this deal to UTL. The rollout of GPON is being carried out and it is expected that by March 2015 around 60000 villages will be connected.[19]

Once all the gram panchayats have been connected by the dedicated fibre optical network, the last mile connectivity to all villages will be provided by the commercial telecom operators by expanding the current national network of 38,000 Wi-Fi hotspots to 700,000 Wi-Fi hotspots to cover all 625,000 villages in India.[1][2] ₹36 billion (equivalent to ₹50 billion, US$630 million or €620 million in 2023), union government subsidy support will be given to the telecom service operators for rolling out Wi-Fi hotspots in commercially non-viable villages.[2] BharatNet has offered the bulk broadband bandwidth at 75% discounted rates to the commercial telecom operators so that they can offer deeply discounted monetised competitive deals to the rural wireless broadband customers.[6][7] Commercial operators Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone have already connected their 4G-based-broadband base towers to BharatNet at various locations to provide the high speed last mile wireless broadband connectivity.[8][6][7]

The central government will set up sufficient Wi-Fi hotspots to cover 100 million citizens by 2020, and tender will be floated for this soon (as of November 2017).[2] Additionally, Indian Railways will provide Wi-Fi hotspots, limited free access, and unlimited paid access, at 600 major stations by March 2018 and all of its 8,500 stations by March 2019 with an outlay of ₹7 billion (US$88 million), with 1,200 large stations catering to the rail passengers and the remaining 7,300 stations catering to both rail passengers and local population in remote and rural areas, including facilities to access government services or e-purchase of commercial products (c. 7 Jan 2018).[20]

HRD ministry has instructed 50,000 colleges and technical in India to offer free Wi-Fi to students and staff with capped free data quota, after which data will have to be purchased. Out of these Reliance Jio has offered to deploy free Wi-Fi connectivity to 38,000 colleges, which has been supported by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and the Department of Telecommunications (DoT).[21]

Some Startups, such as Velmenni Research, under the Startup India, are working on solutions to offer Li-Fi access via LED lights at homes at a speed 100 faster than ordinary WI-FI bandwidth.[22]

Implementation edit

BharatNet is a middle layer for providing broadband connectivity across all Community Development Blocks (CDB), 250,000 village gram panchayats covering 630,000 inhabited villages of states and union territories of India. As of July 2021, Phase-I was complete and 150,000 Gram Panchayats and associated villages had been service ready with 5.09 lakh km of Optical Fibre Cable already laid, the 29,500 crore (US$4 billion) PPP tender for remaining nearly 100,000 gram panchayats and all the individual inhabited villages under hose panchayats spread across 16 states was floated in 2021 with target date for broadband connectivity of 2023.[5]

BharatNet Phase-I (Completed: Dec 2017) edit

BharatNet Phase-I, across 13 states and UTs was completed in December 2017 with the Phase-I union government funding share of ₹110 billion (equivalent to ₹150 billion, US$1.9 billion or €1.9 billion in 2023).[2][23][9] It connected 100,000 gram panchayat, covering 300,000 villages by laying 300,000 km of optical fibre network.[1][2][23][9] 13 states and UTs in this phase were: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Delhi, Goa, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Manipur, Meghalaya, Puducherry, Sikkim and West Bengal.[23][9][24]

To provide the last mile connectivity for the 100,000-gram panchayats in Phase-I, contracts were signed to connect 30,500 village panchayats by Vodafone, 30,000 village panchayats by Reliance Jio. 2,000 by Vodafone and 1,000 by Idea Cellular, these Wi-Fi hotspots were activated after connecting BharatNet fibre optics OLT to commercial operator's cell phone base stations.[7] (Latest weekly update)

BharatNet Phase-II (Target: March 2023) edit

BharatNet Phase-II, will connect the remaining nearly 145,000 gram panchayats covering 325,000 villages through additional 1 million km of optical fibre.[1][2] Phase-II commenced with the union government funding share of ₹340 billion (equivalent to ₹480 billion, US$6.0 billion or €5.8 billion in 2023), with the current 250 km per day pace of optical fibre network roll out which needs to be raised to 500 km per day to achieve the completion target of March 2019.[1]

DoT will invest ₹107.43 billion (US$1.3 billion) on BharatNet in Northeast India, including erecting 6,673 towers to connect 8,621 villages at the cost of ₹53.36 billion (US$670 million) and additional 4,240 gram panchayats by satellite broadband connectivity.[25]

Merger of BSNL and BBNL edit

On 27 July 2022. The cabinet decided to merge state owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and Bharat Broadband Network Limited[26]

See also edit

References edit

Citations edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Only 'Made in India' equipment for BharatNet: Govt.", The Hindu, 12 November 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Govt to launch second phase of BharatNet, to connect 1.5 lakh panchayats with internet.", The News Minute, 13 November 2017.
  3. ^ a b "BBNL may become full-blown telecom services company". Economic times. Kolkata, India. 29 October 2013.
  4. ^ a b c BharatNet FAQ
  5. ^ a b Global tenders worth rs 29500 crore invited for bharatnet, Money Control, 20 July 2021.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Jio, Airtel take lead in signing up for BharatNet connectivity.", Economic Times, 14 November 2017.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "What is BharatNet project and why it's a big boost for PM Narendra Modi's Digital India dream?.", The Financial Express (India), 14 November 2017.
  8. ^ a b "Bharat turns new telco battleground.", Daily News and Analysis, 14 November 2017.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h BharatNet Phase-I status by states and UT.
  10. ^ a b c "Bharat Broadband plans to hook up all 2.5 lakh panchayats by Dec-end". The Hindu – Business Line. India. 17 July 2013.
  11. ^ "Company Profile". Bharat Broadband Network Limited. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
  12. ^ a b "Gujarat inks pact with GOI, BBNL for optical fiber network". Business Standard. Vadodara, India. 14 April 2013.
  13. ^ ".", Economic Times, 17 November 2017.
  14. ^ "422.2M Internet connections in India; Maharashtra (excluding Mumbai) had highest broadband connections.", MediaNama.Com, July 2017.
  15. ^ Govt will soon make Aadhaar-driving licence linking mandatory: Ravi Shankar Prasad, Indian Express, 7 Jan 2019.
  16. ^ . iamai.in. Archived from the original on 27 June 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  17. ^ . Telegraphindia.com. 1 March 1999. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  18. ^ Abhimanyu Rathore. . Efytimes.com. Archived from the original on 21 August 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  19. ^ Kalyan Parbat (20 February 2014). . The Economic Times. Archived from the original on 1 March 2014.
  20. ^ Indian Railways to equip all 8,500 stations with Wi-Fi, Economic Times, 7 Jan 2018.
  21. ^ HRD ministry asks colleges to provide free Wi-Fi on campus , Hindustan Times, 18 Jan 2018.
  22. ^ Forget Wi-Fi: This startup tech can power the Internet using light bulbs and is 100 times faster, Economic Times, 16 Jan 2018.
  23. ^ a b c BharatNet Phase-II plan, IIT Bombay.
  24. ^ BSNL lays 11,005-km optical fibre cable in state, The Tribune, 13 Jan 2018.
  25. ^ DoT to spend Rs 10,743 cr to improve connectivity in NE, Business Standard, 16 Jan 2018.
  26. ^ "Cabinet clears BSNL-BBNL merger, approves revival package worth Rs 1.64 lakh cr". The Economic Times. Retrieved 28 July 2022.

External links edit

  • Official site
  • Official live current overall summary status report
  • Official Phase-I status breakdown by state
  • Phase-II Planning, IIT Bombay

January 01, 1970
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Not to be confused with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited BharatNet also known as Bharat Broadband Network Limited BBNL is a central public sector undertaking set up by the Department of Telecommunications a department under Ministry of Communications of the Government of India for the establishment management and operation of the National Optical Fibre Network to provide a minimum of 100 Mbit s broadband connectivity to all 250 000 gram panchayats in the country covering nearly 625 000 villages by improving the middle layer of nation wide broadband internet in India to achieve the goal of Digital India 1 2 3 4 Bharat Broadband Network LimitedCompany typeCentral Public Sector UndertakingIndustryBroadbandFounded25 February 2012 12 years ago 2012 02 25 HeadquartersNew Delhi IndiaArea servedIndiaKey peopleAshwini Vaishnaw Cabinet Minister for Communications Sarvesh Singh IRSSE Chairman amp MD ServicesInternetOwnerDepartment of Telecommunications Ministry of Communications Government of IndiaWebsitebbnl wbr nic wbr in BharatNet Phase I connecting 100 000 village councils covering 300 000 villages was completed by December 2017 1 BharatNet Phase II will be completed by 31 March 2023 to connect the remaining 150 000 village councils covering 325 000 villages in 16 states July 2021 update 5 The last mile connectivity with a total of 700 000 Wi Fi hotspots to cover all 625 000 villages of India by adding 2 to 5 Wi Fi hotspots per gram panchayat and a minimum of one Wi Fi hotspot per village have been created by connecting high speed 4G base tower stations of commercial telecom operators to BharatNet whereby commercially non viable Wi Fi hotspots will be subsidized by the union government grant of 36 billion equivalent to 50 billion US 630 million or 620 million in 2023 to sustain the operation 2 6 7 BharatNet is the world s largest rural broadband connectivity program 4 which is built under the Make in India initiative with no involvement of foreign companies 1 8 7 It is both an enabler and a beneficiary of other key government schemes such as Digital India 4 Make in India 1 the National e Governance Plan UMANG Bharatmala Sagarmala Parvatmala the dedicated freight corridors industrial corridors UDAN RCS and Amrit Bharat Station Scheme Contents 1 History 1 1 Origin and slow pace of implementation 2011 1 2 Implementation boost in 2014 1 3 Implementation partners 2 Project features 2 1 Benefits 2 2 Funding 2 3 Make in India 3 Bharat Net as middle layer 3 1 GPON fiber deployment 4 Implementation 4 1 BharatNet Phase I Completed Dec 2017 4 2 BharatNet Phase II Target March 2023 5 Merger of BSNL and BBNL 6 See also 7 References 7 1 Citations 8 External linksHistory editOrigin and slow pace of implementation 2011 edit On 25 October 2011 the Government of India approved the National Optical Fibre Network NOFN initiative later renamed as BharatNet 9 to connect all 250 000 gram panchayats in the country covering nearly 625 000 villages by utilizing the existing optical fibre network and extending it to the gram panchayats 10 To achieve this Bharat Broadband Network was incorporated as a Special Purpose Vehicle SPV on 25 February 2012 under Companies Act of 1956 11 Between 2011 and 2014 project did not take off as planned 6 and only 350 km of optical fibre out of 300 000 km optical fibre network needed for the Phase I was laid 6 7 Between 2014 and 2017 the original Phase I target of laying 300 000 km of optical fibre was completed under the new BJP government 6 Implementation boost in 2014 edit The BharatNet project picked up pace under the Digital India initiative after Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power he renamed the project as the BharatNet made several changes to expedite the project significantly enhanced the BharatNet funding to several billion dollars under the Digital India set ambitious time bound implementations deadlines appointed government public sector units BSNL RailTel and PowerGrid Corp for the swift implementation and monitoring and to bypass the right of way issues for laying the optical fibre cable network the existing government owned roads rail lines and power lines were used 7 Bangalore based United Telecoms Limited won the bid being almost 80 lower than the second lowest bidder ITI Limited followed by Tejas STL etc BharatNet collaborated with other government entities such as C DOT Telecommunications Consultants India Limited and National Informatics Centre for the design and rollout plan of BharatNet NOFN Project 10 BharatNet assigned the execution work of network roll out to several other Government of India Public Sector Units namely BSNL RailTel and Power Grid Corporation of India 10 Project was rolled out as a collaboration between the Union Government to provide broadband connectivity at sub district Block level state governments optical fibre to gram panchayat level and private sector companies Wi Fi hotspots in each village and connections to the individual homes 2 12 Union government total share is 450 billion equivalent to 630 billion US 7 9 billion or 7 7 billion in 2023 the rest will be funded by the respective state governments 2 Implementation partners edit There are 36 states and union territories of India including 28 states and 9 UTs BSNL was awarded work for 18 of these RailTel received work in 8 and Power Grid Corporation of India in 5 9 BSNL was awarded work for 18 states and UTs namely Andaman and Nicobar Islands Assam Bihar Chandigarh Chhattisgarh Haryana Jammu and Kashmir Karnataka Kerala Lakshadweep Tamil Nadu Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Uttar Pradesh divided into two projects UP East and UP West Uttarakhand and West Bengal 9 RailTel was awarded work for 8 states and UTs namely Arunachal Pradesh Gujarat Nagaland Manipur Mizoram Meghalaya Puducherry and Tripura 9 Power Grid Corporation of India was awarded work for 5 states namely Andhra Pradesh Himachal Pradesh Jharkhand Odisha and Telangana 9 Delhi is included with Phase I BSNL work for Haryana Goa is also included with Phase I BSNL work for Maharastra Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu are included with Phase II work for RailTel Tripura is likely included with Phase II RailTel work for the Northeast India Project features editBenefits edit BharatNet will provide more employment opportunities improved service delivery online e gram panchayat services e governance e education e health e medicine e grievances e agriculture e citizen etc and an impetus to the Make in India Digital India and Startup India initiatives 1 6 7 According to Morgan Stanley s research of India s 33 internet penetration in November 2017 needs update only 15 and 2 of total internet users use online shopping and retail shopping respectively estimated to go up to 78 penetration 62 online shoppers and 15 online retail shopper respectively by 2027 13 As per study by the ICRIER every 10 increase in the usage of internet in India will add 4 5 trillion equivalent to 6 3 trillion US 79 billion or 77 billion in 2023 leading to a 3 3 increase in GDP of India a number that will go up after the completion of Phase II in March 2019 1 6 By the end of BharatNet Phase II in March 2019 the total current fibre optical network will grow by 100 to 10 million kilometres 6 7 This 100 increment in the fibre optic network would result in several hundred percent increment in the internet usage when in addition to 625 000 villages each with minimum 100 Mbit s 2 500 000 government institutions and 5 000 000 households will also be connected to the BharatNet broadband by the time it is completed 6 14 To put the potential gains things in perspective during the early phase of the project in 2018 India had a population of 1 3 billion people 1 36 billion in 2021 1 23 billion Aadhaar digital biometric identities 1 21 billion mobile phones 446 million smartphones 560 million internet users 800 million in 2021 35 internet penetration 57 in 2021 and 51 growth in e commerce 15 16 BharatNet has stated goal of 100 Mbit s internet speed and in Q1 2020 India ranked 3rd with 15 34 Mbit s wireless mobile internet speed and 70th with 55 76 Mbit s fixed broadband speed also see countries by Internet connection speed BharatNet will expedite broadband and smartphone penetration and speed and their multiplier impact on the economy Funding edit The government has discounted the bulk BharatNet bandwidth rates to the commercial telecom operators by 76 to enable them to offer the highly discounted affordable competitive and commercially viable BharatNet enabled wireless cellular 4G broadband deals to the rural customers 6 7 The 450 billion equivalent to 630 billion US 7 9 billion or 7 7 billion in 2023 union government share of funding will come from the Universal Services Obligation Fund of the Department of Telecommunications 3 It will be rolled out with the additional funding by state governments to connect all gram panchayats in India 12 Make in India edit Both the optical fibre and the Gigabit capable passive optical network broadband equipment made to account for the dust and power outage issues in the rural areas are made in India by C DOT with no involvement of foreign companies 1 GPON products see below supplied by United Telecoms Limited UTL which are manufactured in India and the technology is indigenously developed by Centre for Development of Telematics C DOT 17 18 Bharat Net as middle layer editGPON fiber deployment edit This article needs to be updated Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information February 2024 C DOT has also inked technology transfer pacts with six Indian vendors which include Indian Telephone Industries Limited ITI Ltd Tejas Networks VMC Sai Systems UTL and SM Creative to manufacture the gear on winning the contracts citation needed UTL emerged as the competitive bid winner and obtained the GPON supply contract for a value of approximately Rs 1000 Cr The companies like ITI Ltd Tejas Networks Sterlite ZTE and Larsen amp Toubro lost this deal to UTL The rollout of GPON is being carried out and it is expected that by March 2015 around 60000 villages will be connected 19 Once all the gram panchayats have been connected by the dedicated fibre optical network the last mile connectivity to all villages will be provided by the commercial telecom operators by expanding the current national network of 38 000 Wi Fi hotspots to 700 000 Wi Fi hotspots to cover all 625 000 villages in India 1 2 36 billion equivalent to 50 billion US 630 million or 620 million in 2023 union government subsidy support will be given to the telecom service operators for rolling out Wi Fi hotspots in commercially non viable villages 2 BharatNet has offered the bulk broadband bandwidth at 75 discounted rates to the commercial telecom operators so that they can offer deeply discounted monetised competitive deals to the rural wireless broadband customers 6 7 Commercial operators Reliance Jio Bharti Airtel Idea Cellular and Vodafone have already connected their 4G based broadband base towers to BharatNet at various locations to provide the high speed last mile wireless broadband connectivity 8 6 7 The central government will set up sufficient Wi Fi hotspots to cover 100 million citizens by 2020 and tender will be floated for this soon as of November 2017 2 Additionally Indian Railways will provide Wi Fi hotspots limited free access and unlimited paid access at 600 major stations by March 2018 and all of its 8 500 stations by March 2019 with an outlay of 7 billion US 88 million with 1 200 large stations catering to the rail passengers and the remaining 7 300 stations catering to both rail passengers and local population in remote and rural areas including facilities to access government services or e purchase of commercial products c 7 Jan 2018 20 HRD ministry has instructed 50 000 colleges and technical in India to offer free Wi Fi to students and staff with capped free data quota after which data will have to be purchased Out of these Reliance Jio has offered to deploy free Wi Fi connectivity to 38 000 colleges which has been supported by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India TRAI and the Department of Telecommunications DoT 21 Some Startups such as Velmenni Research under the Startup India are working on solutions to offer Li Fi access via LED lights at homes at a speed 100 faster than ordinary WI FI bandwidth 22 Implementation editBharatNet is a middle layer for providing broadband connectivity across all Community Development Blocks CDB 250 000 village gram panchayats covering 630 000 inhabited villages of states and union territories of India As of July 2021 Phase I was complete and 150 000 Gram Panchayats and associated villages had been service ready with 5 09 lakh km of Optical Fibre Cable already laid the 29 500 crore US 4 billion PPP tender for remaining nearly 100 000 gram panchayats and all the individual inhabited villages under hose panchayats spread across 16 states was floated in 2021 with target date for broadband connectivity of 2023 5 BharatNet Phase I Completed Dec 2017 edit BharatNet Phase I across 13 states and UTs was completed in December 2017 with the Phase I union government funding share of 110 billion equivalent to 150 billion US 1 9 billion or 1 9 billion in 2023 2 23 9 It connected 100 000 gram panchayat covering 300 000 villages by laying 300 000 km of optical fibre network 1 2 23 9 13 states and UTs in this phase were Andaman and Nicobar Islands Chandigarh Delhi Goa Haryana Karnataka Kerala Lakshadweep Manipur Meghalaya Puducherry Sikkim and West Bengal 23 9 24 To provide the last mile connectivity for the 100 000 gram panchayats in Phase I contracts were signed to connect 30 500 village panchayats by Vodafone 30 000 village panchayats by Reliance Jio 2 000 by Vodafone and 1 000 by Idea Cellular these Wi Fi hotspots were activated after connecting BharatNet fibre optics OLT to commercial operator s cell phone base stations 7 Latest weekly update BharatNet Phase II Target March 2023 edit BharatNet Phase II will connect the remaining nearly 145 000 gram panchayats covering 325 000 villages through additional 1 million km of optical fibre 1 2 Phase II commenced with the union government funding share of 340 billion equivalent to 480 billion US 6 0 billion or 5 8 billion in 2023 with the current 250 km per day pace of optical fibre network roll out which needs to be raised to 500 km per day to achieve the completion target of March 2019 1 DoT will invest 107 43 billion US 1 3 billion on BharatNet in Northeast India including erecting 6 673 towers to connect 8 621 villages at the cost of 53 36 billion US 670 million and additional 4 240 gram panchayats by satellite broadband connectivity 25 Merger of BSNL and BBNL editOn 27 July 2022 The cabinet decided to merge state owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and Bharat Broadband Network Limited 26 See also editInternet in India List of countries by Internet connection speeds List of countries by number of broadband Internet subscriptions List of countries by number of Internet users List of countries by smartphone penetrationReferences editCitations edit a b c d e f g h i j k Only Made in India equipment for BharatNet Govt The Hindu 12 November 2017 a b c d e f g h i j Govt to launch second phase of BharatNet to connect 1 5 lakh panchayats with internet The News Minute 13 November 2017 a b BBNL may become full blown telecom services company Economic times Kolkata India 29 October 2013 a b c BharatNet FAQ a b Global tenders worth rs 29500 crore invited for bharatnet Money Control 20 July 2021 a b c d e f g h i j k Jio Airtel take lead in signing up for BharatNet connectivity Economic Times 14 November 2017 a b c d e f g h i j What is BharatNet project and why it s a big boost for PM Narendra Modi s Digital India dream The Financial Express India 14 November 2017 a b Bharat turns new telco battleground Daily News and 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Of A Large Increase In Number Of People Using Wearable Technology In India In The Coming Years Electronics For You Efytimes com Archived from the original on 21 August 2014 Retrieved 12 December 2016 Kalyan Parbat 20 February 2014 United Telecom pips rivals ITI Tejas Sterlite L amp T with Rs 998 crore bid for BBNL contract The Economic Times Archived from the original on 1 March 2014 Indian Railways to equip all 8 500 stations with Wi Fi Economic Times 7 Jan 2018 HRD ministry asks colleges to provide free Wi Fi on campus Hindustan Times 18 Jan 2018 Forget Wi Fi This startup tech can power the Internet using light bulbs and is 100 times faster Economic Times 16 Jan 2018 a b c BharatNet Phase II plan IIT Bombay BSNL lays 11 005 km optical fibre cable in state The Tribune 13 Jan 2018 DoT to spend Rs 10 743 cr to improve connectivity in NE Business Standard 16 Jan 2018 Cabinet clears BSNL BBNL merger approves revival package worth Rs 1 64 lakh cr The Economic Times Retrieved 28 July 2022 External links editOfficial site Official live current overall summary status report Official Phase I status breakdown by state Phase II Planning IIT Bombay Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Bharat Broadband Network amp oldid 1220785277 National Optical Fibre Network, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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