Tarun Kartick & Mohammed Sajid
Port Blair, Nov 11: In a bid to cater better telecommunication services to Islanders, BSNL’s Andaman and Nicobar Telecom Circle is all set to install forty new mobile towers across these remote Islands.
The telecommunication services in these Islands have always been on the negative side and most of the time we found them dead when we really needed it. The mobile communication improved post tsunami but after that it just came to a halt. Mostly in the southern group of Islands BSNL connectivity is still pathetic, in Islands like Kamota, Katchal and Campbell Bay still the broadband services are unavailable and people use the ultra slow dial up connections and mobile GPRS to meet their communication needs.
This step of BSNL to install 40 more towers in these remote Islands will come as a great relief to the people residing in remote areas of these remotest Islands of India.
Talking exclusively with Andaman Sheekha the Chief General Manager of BSNL, A & N Circle, Mr. V Raju said that the equipments have already started arriving and soon within one year all the forty mobile towers in different areas of Andaman and Nicobar Islands will be installed.
“These towers will improve the telecommunication services and will also improve the coverage area of BSNL in these Islands. Presently BSNL has 127 mobile towers installed throughout these Islands and after adding these forty towers the number will grow to 167. BSNL is all set to install these towers in maximum areas where the coverage is not available presently,” the CGM added.
He said that all the newly installed mobile towers will also be GPRS enabled and people will also be able to avail the data services in the remote areas.
