Following is the trascriptof President Pratibha Patil's address to the joint sittingof Parliament on Thursday.Honourable Members, I convey my good wishes to you and to all our people. On behalf of......
BharatNet, the government’s ambitious broadband project for the countryside, will be used by the India Meteorological Department to make long-term weather predictions. The project, earlier......
India's public sector telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd plans to roll out triple play broadband services by January 2007, starting with the cities of Pune and Chennai. "We would launch the......
In an attempt to push broadband connectivity further in the country, the government has decided the service will be offered free of cost to users, who will, however, pay for the equipment (Rs......
Bharat Sanchar Nigam will not allow private telecom service providers to become its franchisee for providing broadband services."We will have franchisees for providing content only. We will provide......
Describing India as a 'strategic market,' French telecom major Alcatel, which is currently non-existent in the country's vibrant GSM-based network, has offered to make investment on behalf of......