The government has tied up with Bangalore-based tech solutions company United Telecom Ltd for the project, which will involve using optic fibre cables and wireless technologies across the state and linking some 200 computer kiosks that deliver government services to the state's residents.
United Telecom Ltd, Bangalore, who is the partner of for Goa broadband
has completed more than 250 Km of backbone optical fiber laying work.
GBBN aims to provide ultra-high speed broadband connectivity to all
government offices as well as all citizen of Goa. Very soon the company
is going to connect all 11 talukas and give connectivity to government
offices in Panaji, and Margao, states a press note issued here. The
work for connecting all the government offices for talukas is in full
swing. The broadband speed will be provided from state head quarter
to district head quarter -- talukas at 10 Gbps and all talukas with
10 Gbps, while the government offices will be at 1Gbps and household
connectivity will be 2 to 10 Mbps. (NT Business Desk)
United Telecom Limited (UTL),
has laid nearly 250km (155 miles) of cable and says that it has completed
the first phase of the project - linking the government's headquarters
to district offices via a ten gigabits-per-second network
The first phase of the Goa broadband
network, connecting every taluka and district with 10gbps bandwidth
is already complete, while the second phase, connecting panchayats in
403 villages with 1gbps connectivity, will be complete by December.
Every household will get bandwidth of 2-10mbps by March. By December,
district and village administrations will have one gigabits-per-second
connectivity and within five months 320,000 households will have access
to speeds of up to ten megabits per second. Initially, the aim is to
sign up 80,000 homes to bundled access to voice, data, high-speed internet
and television services for about 500 rupees a month - a significant
discount to buying cable TV, telephone and internet separately. Users
will be able to pause and fast-forward live television, hold video-conferences
with friends and colleagues and file tax returns straight to the government
server.
United Telecom is also providing connectivity for 450 common service centres in Jharkhand.
The first phase of the Goa broadband network, connecting every taluka and district with 10gbps (gigabits per second, a measure of speed of the network) bandwidth is already complete, while the second phase, connecting panchayats in 403 villages with 1gbps connectivity, will be complete by December. Every household will get bandwidth of 2-10mbps (megabits per second) by March.
"We will invest Rs100-150 crore on this project and this will include laying down the fibre cables across the state and setting up routers and switches," said M. Chandrashekar, vice-president at United Telecom.
Goans will have faster and more efficient access to voice, video and data services including phone services on the internet, video and high-speed internet connectivity, Internet protocol TV, cable TV services, distance education courses, video-enabled medical services and online gaming.
"To avail the voice and video services on the Internet, the citizen will have to pay an upper limit of Rs270 per month, while voice, video and data services bundled together will cost Rs522 per month," said M.N. Rao, adviser and director at the state's information technology department.
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Launch of Phase I - Goa Broadband Network by Prime Minister of India
