The government has advanced the deadline for rolling out national optical fibre network (NOFN) across all 2.5 lakh village Panchayats by a quarter to December 2016.
The last phase of NOFN roll out to connect 1 lakh village panchayats will be completed by December 2016, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad informed Rajya Sabha. Earlier, the government had set the target of completing NOFN roll out across 2.5 lakh village Panchayats by March 2017. There is no change in deadline for phase 1 and 2 under which government has announced to connect 50,000 villages with NOFN by March 2015 and 1 lakh by March 2016.
The minister said that roll out of services using 3G and broadband wireless spectrum which was put to auction in 2010 would also lead to expansion of broadband facilities in the country.
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