Telecom Minister Ravi
Shankar Prasad will lay the foundation stone for a project in Agartala tomorrow
that aims to strengthen telecom services in the North Eastern states.
Under the project, an
international gateway for broadband connectivity will be set up at Agartala in
which connectivity will be provided through Bangladesh under an agreement
between state-run BSNL and Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company limited.
“This project will
resolve telecom connectivity issue to a great extent in North Eastern states.
At present we provide connectivity from Chennai via Kolkata to North East. This
will be now a short route cable between Cox Bazar cable landing station in
Bangladesh to Agartala through Akhaura,” Prasad told reporters here.
The cost of the project
is Rs 19.1 crore and annual operational expenditure is around Rs 7.2 crore.
“We will get bandwidth
of 10 Gbps which can be extended up to 40 Gbps,” the minister added.
The project is likely to
be commissioned by January 2016.
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