India on Tuesday asked Bangladesh to utilize the services of Indian Companies in executing telecom projects in the neighbouring country.
New Delhi has already offered line of credit worth two billion US dollars to Dhaka and Indian companies including Tejas have successfully completed pilot projects in connecting 100 Union Parishads (Gram Panchayats) in Bangladesh and has pitched for executing 1000 such projects.
This was conveyed to the visiting Bangladeshi delegation led by State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Tarana Halim, who called on the Union Minister of Communications Manoj Sinha in New Delhi.
It is to be pointed out that unlike other foreign companies operating in Bangladesh in the telecom sector, Indian companies have also offered to share technology and to impart skill training.
Sinha said that through technology transfer, C-DoT could help strengthening Bangladesh telecom network and rural population encouraging local manufacturing.
It is to be underlined that C-DoT has recently developed technologies to build broadband infrastructure for next Generation Services and it is instrumental in designing the core enabling technology and network architecture of BharatNet-National optical Fiber Network connecting villages and panchayats of the country.
Apart from this Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) is also cost effective technology for broadband penetration in rural areas.
By Belal Khan
