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Govt to subsidise fibre networks from USOF

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  • 26-07-2007 1:07pm
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    bealtine
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    The Indian government will give subsidies from the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) to operators to build optic-fibre cable networks across India. The Economic Times reports that the department of telecom (DoT) has already asked state-owned Telecom Consultants India Ltd (TCIL) to conduct a detailed study on the optic-fibre cable networks of all operators and suggest the best methodology to augment these networks. On the basis of the study, operators whose OFC networks are the most amenable to sharing would be identified and the government will support augmentation and extension of the networks on the condition that they share bandwidth with other players, DoT said. The shared OFC networks will be used as backbone for both mobile and wireless broadband (WiMAX). The DoT will soon ask telecom regulator TRAI to fix rentals for shared OFC networks to avoid disputes over pricing. The move comes as the government has realised that it would be uneconomical for every service provider to lay their own extensive OFC networks.


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