India will connect 5000 blocks in the country with wireless broadband, once the spectrum is allocated later this year, announced Department of Telecommunications (DOT) , Government of India. The project will be undertaken along with the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF). The plan aims to provide connectivity to villages coming within a radius of 10 Kms of the Taluka/Block headquarters.
[This article was published in the September 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
After three long years of agonising wait, India finally announced its much awaited third generation (3G) policy for the telecom players.
Intel India announced the launch of a range of desktops which will start at INR.5,000 ($125 approximately).
Jharkhand postal services will soon go online. The Postal Circle in the Indian state of Jharkhand is launching a INR 113 crore project to make the postal services completely elctronic.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has announced that Public Call Offices (PCOs) in Karnataka (south Indian state) will be converted into e-PCOs soon.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) announced the first phase in the rollout of wireless broadband powered Wimax protocol in rural India by the end of 2008.
PwC (Price waterhouse Coopers) has become the third party audit (TPA) agency for Tripura SWAN (State Wide Area Network) for a period of five years. Selected by a limited tender process by Department of Information Technology (DIT), they have become India’s first third party auditor for the project.
BSNL Puducherry announced e-Learning for the students of standards X and XI.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) announced that the villagers in West Bengal from July onwards can submit their landline and mobile phone bills through Common Service Centres (CSCs) or Tathya Mitra Kendras set up by Srei Sahaj e-Village Limited across 14 districts of the state under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP).
[This article was published in the June 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The National Informatics Centre (NIC), Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India organised a national seminar,
