The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh launching the Goa Broadband Network Project at Porvorim, on Thursday. Also seen the Governor, Mr S C Jamir, the Chief Minister, Mr Digambar Kamat, IT Minister, Mr Dayanand Narvekar, the Chief Secretary, Mr J P Singh and others. |
Panaji, Dec 27 Goa on Thursday became the first Indian state to have a truly converged wide area network with the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh inaugurating the first phase of the Goa Broadband Network (GBBN) here.
Complimenting the Government of Goa and its partners for the rapid implementation of the project, the Prime Minister said that the project will benefit all sections of the state, and will then truly become a harbinger of change and modernity into the lives of people in the state. Mentioning the benefits of the ICT, he said that there are a wide range of services that can now be delivered over a telecom link—travel services, healthcare and education.
The Prime Minister further added that many jobs can now be performed long-distance, over a telephone or computer link, which has led to the growth of long distance service delivery models including call-centres, business process outsourcing and knowledge process outsourcing.
He said that the GBBN is a first step in positioning the state for the future and it would hopefully be another success story that will open the doors of the knowledge economy to people of the state. “Besides providing connectivity at the highest speeds available anywhere in the entire country, the Phase I would connect all state government offices up to the taluka level,” Dr Singh said. more..
Panaji, Dec 27 The Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (GEPON) which will serve as a foundation for the new State Wide Area Network (SWAN), would be providing a number of general consumer services including data internet and intranet, voice-over IP and Interactive Personalised Tele Viewing (IPTV), besides improving the government services. The managing director of UTStarcom (South Asia), Mr Vijay Yadav, addressing a press conference, today said that the private-public partnership (PPP) between UTStarcom which is a driver in broadband technology, United Telecoms Ltd, which is a ICT solutions company and Government of Goa has succeeded in establishing the broadband, high speed network through a combination of optic fiber cable (OFC) across the length and breadth of the state up to the village level, and also wireless technology deployed where OFC connectivity cannot be given due to topographic constraints.
Goa goes broadband in hi-tech drive for foreign investment - 29 Oct 2007 Times Online - UK
Goa is going broadband. And, in a project that would be ambitious even in a developed economy, it aims to have it all done by March.
United Telecom Limited (UTL), the Bangalore-based company awarded the contract nearly a year ago, 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.
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.
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