India, Feb. 6 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:
To improve telecom services in commercially unviable rural and remote areas of the country, Government has taken up 'BharatNet' project for providing broadband connectivity to all Gram Panchayats (GPs) in the country and many other mobile projects for provisioning of mobile services with funding from Digital Bharat Nidhi (DBN) [erstwhile Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF)]. As of date, 2,14,323 GPs are service ready in the country. Further, by commissioning of around 16,869 mobile towers, around 22,000 uncovered remote and rural villages / locations have been covered in the country.
For providing mobile service in uncovered villages of North-Eastern Regio...