Vikramaditya
Port Blair, Oct 17: While India is getting ready for 5G, in some villages of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, receiving 2G data or even BSNL mobile signals have become a major challenge.
Forget about far flung Islands, major parts of Aniket and Caddlegunj villages reportedly face total blackout of BSNL network, whenever there is a power cut in the area. Due to high efficiency of Electricity Department these two villages reportedly witness multiple power cuts everyday for several hours and during the power cuts the major parts of these two villagers do not get BSNL mobile network.
While villagers presume that the reason behind such mobile network blackout is non-functioning of generators attached to the mobile towers, multiple complaints made by them yielded zero results.
Adding to the pain some parts of these two villages also receives weak signal of Airtel and hence during power cuts, they remains totally disconnected from rest of the world. The glory of Digital India Campaign certainly has not reached upto these two villages, which are close to Port Blair city, and hence one can understand what will be the condition of network connectivity in remote Islands.
