The plan to rollout India’s first indigenous 4G community is lastly in movement. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) introduced on Monday that it has bagged the ₹15,000 crore contract from BSNL, a 100 per cent Government of India owned PSU to rollout its 4G community.
“The consortium led by Tata Consultancy Services Ltd has acquired an Advance Purchase Order valued over `15,000 crore from BSNL, a 100 per cent Govt. of India owned Public Sector Undertaking, for the deployment of a 4G community throughout India,” mentioned the trade submitting on Monday morning.
BSNL’s 4G community
This announcement comes after inordinate delays, as TCS-led consortium had gained the unique rights to deploy BSNL’s 4G community nearly two years in the past. However the proof of idea research to check out 4G community gadgets took a variety of time. Subsequently the contract negotiations between the BSNL and TCS went on for greater than a 12 months.
As the Indian non-public telecom operators are effectively in the best way of deploying 5G networks, BSNL has a really restricted 4G community in place. So far, BSNL has round 10,000 4G websites which were deployed by Nokia, the Finnish networks large.
Senior BSNL officers have beforehand informed businessline that plan is to deploy greater than a lakh 4G websites inside the 12 months of commencing deployment.
