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\n“We are open to tweaking the programme’s technology if industry can come up with concrete suggestions and our technical team can supplement it,” Prasad said at the Digital India summit organised by the Times Television Network.
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\nThe massive Rs 20,100-crore national optic fibre network initiative, approved in 2011, seeks to provide Internet services at a speed of 100 megabit per second (mbps) across 2.5-lakh gram panchayats.
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\nThe programme has been marred by delays due to right of way (RoW) clearances at the state and district levels, even as the Narendra Modi-led NDA government has advanced the deadline to December 2016 from March 2017.
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\nIn a response to industry’s suggestion, Prasad said, “Digging will be done to lay cables and it can be supplemented by satellite or balloon or drones wherever possible. I am quite open and can consider it.”
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The pan-India broadband network<\/a> is imperative for Modi’s ambitious Digital India initiative with an initial outlay of Rs 1.13-lakh crore for inclusive growth led by a plethora of m-governance services including health, education and entertainment that has a deadline of 2018. Times Internet chief executive Satyan Gajwani said the Digital India initiative with strong goals holds huge scope and opportunity for the country.
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\n“As we move along, there should be no differentiation in the name of preferential access and it’s consumers who have right to choose services.”
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“Digital India needs to bridge digital divide, and with the focus on rural India, the government is bringing in broadband,” Prasad said. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg met Prasad last year and proposed a pilot project to bridge digital divide with alternate technology such as drones and satellite communications. Then, in December, software giant Microsoft’s global chief executive Satya Nadella offered a pilot project for its ‘White-Fi<\/a>’ technology to provide Internet connectivity in remote villages of the country.
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新德里:中心是准备使用卫星、气球或无人驾驶飞机快进数字连接在印度农村和偏远地区,电信部长Ravi Shankar普拉萨德有说。
“我们愿意调整项目的技术行业是否能提出具体的建议和我们的技术团队可以补充它,”普拉萨德表示数字时代电视网络组织的印度峰会。
巨大的价值20100卢比的全国光纤网络计划,批准了2011年,旨在提供互联网服务的速度100每秒2.5 (mbps)多数克“村务委员会”。
该项目已经被推迟了由于权(行)许可在国家和地区的水平,即使Narendra Modi-led NDA政府先进的最后期限从2017年3月到2016年12月。
应对行业的建议,普拉萨德说,“挖将铺设电缆和它可以补充尽可能通过卫星或气球或无人机。我很开放的,可以考虑。”
的pan-India宽带网络必须莫迪数字印度雄心勃勃的计划,最初的支出十万的1.13卢比的包容性增长由大量的m-governance服务包括健康、教育和娱乐,有一个2018年的最后期限。次网络首席执行官Satyan Gajwani说印度数字倡议与强大的目标持有巨大的范围和机会。
“当我们沿着,应该没有分化的名义优惠准入和消费者有权利选择服务。”
“数字印度需要弥合数字鸿沟,关注印度农村,政府引入宽带,”普拉萨德说。Facebook创始人马克·扎克伯格见到普拉萨德去年提出了一项试点项目弥合数字鸿沟与无人驾驶飞机和卫星通信等替代技术。然后,去年12月,软件巨头微软的全球首席执行官萨提亚Nadella为其提供了一个试点项目白色高保真在偏远乡村提供互联网连接的技术。
“我们愿意调整项目的技术行业是否能提出具体的建议和我们的技术团队可以补充它,”普拉萨德表示数字时代电视网络组织的印度峰会。
巨大的价值20100卢比的全国光纤网络计划,批准了2011年,旨在提供互联网服务的速度100每秒2.5 (mbps)多数克“村务委员会”。
该项目已经被推迟了由于权(行)许可在国家和地区的水平,即使Narendra Modi-led NDA政府先进的最后期限从2017年3月到2016年12月。
应对行业的建议,普拉萨德说,“挖将铺设电缆和它可以补充尽可能通过卫星或气球或无人机。我很开放的,可以考虑。”
的pan-India宽带网络必须莫迪数字印度雄心勃勃的计划,最初的支出十万的1.13卢比的包容性增长由大量的m-governance服务包括健康、教育和娱乐,有一个2018年的最后期限。次网络首席执行官Satyan Gajwani说印度数字倡议与强大的目标持有巨大的范围和机会。
“当我们沿着,应该没有分化的名义优惠准入和消费者有权利选择服务。”
“数字印度需要弥合数字鸿沟,关注印度农村,政府引入宽带,”普拉萨德说。Facebook创始人马克·扎克伯格见到普拉萨德去年提出了一项试点项目弥合数字鸿沟与无人驾驶飞机和卫星通信等替代技术。然后,去年12月,软件巨头微软的全球首席执行官萨提亚Nadella为其提供了一个试点项目白色高保真在偏远乡村提供互联网连接的技术。
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