BSNL carries out massive upgrades of Lakshadweep Satellite Bandwidth
The Hindu
The increased bandwidth will translate into better telecom services, with lesser call drops and fewer call congestion, benefitting islanders and tourists
The State-owned telecom firm, BSNL, on August 14 launched a high capacity satellite-based connectivity facility for the Union Territory of Lakshadweep, under the Universal Service Obligation (USO) project funded by the Department of Telecommunications. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), in 2014, had assessed bandwidth needs of the islands of Lakshadweep to be about 7.6 Gigabit per second (Gbps). On the basis of this assessment, BSNL added 216 Megabit per second (Mbps) capacity to take the total available bandwidth in the islands to 318 Mbps in 2018. Later, ISRO allocated transponders for additional 1,500 Mbps and loaned its hardware to BSNL.
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