Union Minister of Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia on Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch two landmark initiatives on Saturday \u2013 state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited\u2019s (BSNL) indigenous 4G services and 100% fourth-generation (4G) network saturation under the Digital Bharat Nidhi (DBN) programme. <\/p>\n
This would make India the fifth country, after Finland, Sweden, South Korea, and China, to have its own indigenous telecom technology and equipment in a commercial network. <\/p>\n
Scindia said that PM Modi will inaugurate more than 97,500 4G mobile towers of BSNL at an event in Jharsuguda, Odisha. <\/p>\n
The union minister further said that over 92,600 mobile sites installed by BSNL are of \u201cswadeshi\u201d (indigenous) 4G technology, which is 5G upgradable. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt is fully indigenous 4G technology stack featuring a Radio Access Network (RAN) developed by Tejas Networks, a core network by C-DoT (Centre for Development of Telematics), and integrated by TCS (Tata Consultancy Services),\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Scindia noted that the milestone is a reaffirmation of India\u2019s capability to design, develop, and deploy advanced telecom networks indigenously. \u201cThis has come with the relentless work of scientists and engineers who achieved this feat in 3 years when other countries took decades,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Department of Telecommunications (DoT) Secretary Neeraj Mittal said that it is imperative to develop indigenous capabilities to achieve self-reliance. \u201c4G technology stack developed by Indian companies will position India in a dynamically shifting industry as a product offerings-led country,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n
Robert J Ravi, CMD, BSNL, remarked that BSNL\u2019s \u201csilver jubilee\u201d year has allowed the telecom company to lead the country into the indigenous 4G era. <\/p>\n
As per the Ministry of Communications, Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and BSNL have cumulatively installed about 97,500 4G towers at a cost of \u20b937,284 crore under the \u201cIX.2 Project with Swadeshi 4G Full Stack Solution\u201d, \u201c4G Saturation Scheme\u201d, and DBN schemes. <\/p>\n
\u201cThese towers cover 26,700 unconnected villages in remote, border, and left-wing extremism-affected areas and will be a strategic enabler for Digital India,\u201d Scindia said, adding that these towers will deliver connectivity services to more than 2 million new subscribers and enable them to access e-governance services, digital payments, online education, telemedicine, and citizen-centric applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Union Minister of Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia on Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch two landmark initiatives on Saturday \u2013 state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited\u2019s (BSNL) indigenous 4G services and 100% fourth-generation (4G) network saturation under the Digital Bharat Nidhi (DBN) programme. This would make India the fifth country, after Finland, Sweden, South Korea, and China, to have its own indigenous telecom technology and equipment in a commercial network. Scindia said that PM Modi will inaugurate more than 97,500 4G mobile towers of BSNL at an event in Jharsuguda, Odisha. The union minister further said that over 92,600 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964663","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}