{"id":1019161,"date":"2026-07-06T09:05:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019161"},"modified":"2026-07-06T09:57:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T04:27:01","slug":"bsnl-taps-locals-for-bharatnet-to-speed-last-mile-broadband-rollout-in-villages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/06\/bsnl-taps-locals-for-bharatnet-to-speed-last-mile-broadband-rollout-in-villages\/","title":{"rendered":"BSNL taps locals for BharatNet to speed last-mile broadband rollout in villages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BSNL is looking for partners to provide last-mile connectivity to consumers of BharatNet, the government\u2019s ambitious project to provide broadband connectivity to all gram panchayats in the country. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny local individual, self-help group, firm or internet service provider can become a BharatNet Udyami. He or she will be responsible for the installation, provisioning and maintenance of last-mile optical fibre (FTTH) connections, sharing the monthly revenue from subscribers in a 50:50 ratio with BSNL. Their income will depend on the number of connections they service,\u201d said Ghazala Faisal, chief general manager (CGM) of Kolkata Telephones and West Bengal Telecom Circle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BSNL is looking for partners to provide last-mile connectivity to consumers of BharatNet, the government\u2019s ambitious project to provide broadband connectivity to all gram panchayats in the country. \u201cAny local individual, self-help group, firm or internet service provider can become a BharatNet Udyami. He or she will be responsible for the installation, provisioning and maintenance of last-mile optical fibre (FTTH) connections, sharing the monthly revenue from subscribers in a 50:50 ratio with BSNL. Their income will depend on the number of connections they service,\u201d said Ghazala Faisal, chief general manager (CGM) of Kolkata Telephones and West Bengal Telecom Circle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019181,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019161\/revisions\/1019181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}