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BSNL to improve connectivity along border areas

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 SHILLONG: In what can be termed as a good news for people living in rural areas, the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has now decided to continue its services along the Indo-Bangla border, an area which is commercially non viable.

Talking to reporters here, BSNL General Manager M John Chrisostom said that the BSNL had taken the decision to extend the benefit to people living in rural areas.

Earlier, BSNL was mulling to stop its services and were even ready to pay the penalty since services were not making much commercial benefits for the company.

“We will continue as BSNL is a service organization,” he told reporters.

The BSNL is also proud of the fact that the number of BSNL towers have largely gone down in the past few years.

According to Chrisostom, out of 309 BTS towers in Meghalaya, only 7-9 is outage even as he rued that optical fibres often gets cut to various road widening activities that is taking place in the state.

Earlier, even the former Meghalaya BSF Frontier IG Sudesh Kumar had expressed his unhappiness over the pathetic cellular connectivity along the Indo-Bangla border in the State. To further improve the connectivity, BSNL is planning to put up 50 BTS towers in East Khasi Hills and 30 towers in Garo Hills.

The work for installing proposed BTS towers would start in next two months.

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