{"id":984199,"date":"2026-01-09T07:04:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984199"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:44:00","slug":"bharatnet-3-bsnl-to-award-work-orders-to-tcil-ptpl-eyes-to-end-digital-divide-by-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/09\/bharatnet-3-bsnl-to-award-work-orders-to-tcil-ptpl-eyes-to-end-digital-divide-by-2028\/","title":{"rendered":"BharatNet 3: BSNL to award work orders to TCIL, PTPL; eyes to end digital divide by 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) will award contracts to the state-owned Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL) and Pratap Technocrats Private Limited (PTPL) following the ongoing financial evaluation. With the final phase of the ambitious fibre network rollout, the state-owned telco is looking to digitally connect more than 6 lakh villages in a bid to end India&#8217;s digital divide by the end of 2028. <\/p>\n<p>The two emerged as the lowest bidders for the remaining four BharatNet Phase-3 packages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) will award contracts to the state-owned Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL) and Pratap Technocrats Private Limited (PTPL) following the ongoing financial evaluation. With the final phase of the ambitious fibre network rollout, the state-owned telco is looking to digitally connect more than 6 lakh villages in a bid to end India&#8217;s digital divide by the end of 2028. The two emerged as the lowest bidders for the remaining four BharatNet Phase-3 packages.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984199","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=984199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}