{"id":583,"date":"2007-01-23T10:03:56","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T04:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/01\/23\/dots-rs-4k-cr-project-to-set-up-8000-towers-in-rural-india\/"},"modified":"2007-01-23T10:03:56","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T04:33:56","slug":"dots-rs-4k-cr-project-to-set-up-8000-towers-in-rural-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/01\/23\/dots-rs-4k-cr-project-to-set-up-8000-towers-in-rural-india\/","title":{"rendered":"DoT&#8217;s Rs 4k-cr project to set up 8,000 towers in rural India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The department of telecommunications (<strong>DoT<\/strong>) on Friday invited bids from all telecom operators and 22 stand-alone tower companies for <strong>setting up about 8,000 telecom towers<\/strong> across the country at an estimated cost of<strong> Rs 4,000 crore. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government will provide the capital to set up these towers from the Universal Service Obligation Fund (<strong>USOF<\/strong>) through a bidding process. This marks the <strong>largest <\/strong>project of its kind undertaken by the <strong>communications and IT ministry<\/strong> in the country.<\/p>\n<p>All telecom companies <strong>pay 5%<\/strong> of their adjusted&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\nRead More @ <a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/News\/News_By_Industry\/Telecom\/DoTs_Rs_4k-cr_project_to_set_up_8000_towers_in_rural_India\/articleshow\/1324987.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Economictimes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The department of telecommunications (DoT) on Friday invited bids from all telecom operators and 22 stand-alone tower companies for setting up about 8,000 telecom towers across the country at an estimated cost of Rs 4,000 crore. The government will provide the capital to set up these towers from the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-telecom-networking","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}