{"id":603,"date":"2007-01-30T21:09:20","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T15:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/01\/30\/bsnl-to-push-wimax-to-80000-villages\/"},"modified":"2007-01-30T21:09:20","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T15:39:20","slug":"bsnl-to-push-wimax-to-80000-villages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/01\/30\/bsnl-to-push-wimax-to-80000-villages\/","title":{"rendered":"BSNL to Push WiMax to 80,000 Villages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited <\/strong>has plans to connect<strong> 80,000 villages<\/strong> with <strong>wireless <\/strong>broadband.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rajesh Kumar<\/strong>, joint DDG, strategic planning, BSNL informed that the project would be undertaken in phases. The organization has formed a <strong>cluster of 1,000 block headquarters,<\/strong> scattered across India, for the first phase. These blocks will cover around <strong>10,000 villages<\/strong>. <strong>WiMax <\/strong>installation will provide broadband access to customers within a radius of <em><strong>25 kilometers. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>USO will float tender for this project next month. &#8220;We have the infrastructure ready, we will invite bids to procure equipment,&#8221; said Kumar. BSNL has a budget of <strong>Rs 150 crore<\/strong> for equipment procurement, he added. First phase of the project will be completed in the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>Read More @ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cxotoday.com\/India\/News\/BSNL_to_Push_WiMax_to_80000_Villages\/551-78721-912.html\">Cxotoday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has plans to connect 80,000 villages with wireless broadband. Rajesh Kumar, joint DDG, strategic planning, BSNL informed that the project would be undertaken in phases. The organization has formed a cluster of 1,000 block headquarters, scattered across India, for the first phase. These blocks will cover around 10,000 villages. WiMax installation [&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":[8,14],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-india","tag-telecom-networking","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","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=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}