62 towers to link remote Arunachal through cell phones

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Itanagar, Jun 16 (UNI) The Centre is contemplating setting up 62 mobile towers to upgrade cellular phone service in rural and remote areas of land-locked Arunachal Pradesh for which Universal Obligation Fund (USOF) recently concluded its bidding process.

Official sources here today said that Union Communications and Information Technology Minister A Raja conveyed this to Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu, who had requested for providing better mobile services in the state.

The USOF was entrusted with the responsibility for setting up infrastructure for providing mobile services in rural and remote areas, which had not been covered with a wireless signal.

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) would be the infrastructure provider and Reliance Telecom Limited, Dishnet Wireless Limited and BSNL would be the three service-providers sharing the towers, sources said.

The entire state had been divided into seven clusters and 62 sites had been selected for setting up the towers for which the state government would have to provide land and power connections up to the tower sites and eradicate problems that might arise during execution of the scheme, the sources said adding that the state government would nominate a coordinating officer in liaison with the Department of Telecommunications (DOT).

The project would be completed within the next twelve months, sources added.

UNI

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