John Wilbert & Sarthak Kanjilall
Port Blair, Mar 12: Very soon the issue of dead slow internet may come to an end for the Islanders as they may start receiving proper bandwidth and high speed internet by April this year.
Talking to Andaman Sheekha, the Chief General Manager, BSNL, Mr. Murali Krishna said that the submarine Optical Fibre Cable laying ship has already laid the Cable till Port Blair from Chennai and hence, by April 2020 the supply of proper bandwidth may start for the residents and consumers of BSNL staying in the Port Blair city.
He said that currently, the OFC laying ship is laying cable in the Southern Group of Islands and thus, possibly the entire Andaman and Nicobar Islands may start receiving bandwidth by July 2020.
The CGM further said that the ship is now at Campbell Bay and also around 80% of work in the Landing Stations has been completed.
Giving details of the same, the CGM said that currently they have around nine landing stations and those are in Chennai, Port Blair, Little Andaman, Car Nicobar, Kamorta, Campbell Bay, Swaraj Dweep, Long Island and Rangat.
“The work of Landing Stations in Chennai, Port Blair, Swaraj Dweep, Car Nicobar has been completed and the work of other landing stations is at its advanced stage and is expected to complete as per the schedule which is May 2020,” said the CGM.
The CGM informed that both high speed broadband and mobile data will start simultaneously and voice calls will also improve.
“We are trying to provide 4G services by April 2020 itself as already 40 BTS towers have been placed in and around Port Blair, once the spectrum is allocated, we will radiate it immediately,” said the CGM.
“One may expect at least 05 times more speed to what they were receiving previously after the OFC set up start its operations,” the CGM finally added.
