Airtel to pilot Broadband Experience Centres in villages
riding on BharatNet
Concept to be piloted in three villages of Uttar Pradesh
Initiative will contribute to the Government’s ‘Digital
India’ Vision
Users can experience voice-controlled Amazon Echo smart
speakers at all centres
June 19, 2018: Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), India’s largest
telecommunications services provider, today said that it has partnered with the
Department of Telecom to boost broadband penetration in rural Indiaby
piloting Broadband Experience Centres riding on BharatNet infrastructure.
Under the partnership, Airtel has set up three
Broadband Experience Centres in three villages pertaining to Ghazipur,
Gorakhpur and Varanasi districts of Uttar Pradesh. Airtel has already
committed to partner with BharatNet in up to 30,500 Gram Panchayats.
These modern centres will enable citizens and
local entrepreneurs to experience high speed broadband connectivity as well as
get access to use cases relating to e-governance, e-health and e-banking and
e-commerce and much more. Going forward, these centres will also demonstrate
advanced technologies and use cases around Artificial Intelligence and Internet
of Things.
Airtel is providing 100 mbps connectivity to
these Centers through infrastructure provided under DoT’s BharatNet programme.
For providing other digital & web based services, Airtel have joined hands
with Jiva Ayurveda (Online Health consultations), Takshilla E-Learning Services
(Educational Content Services), and Amazon (for Amazon Echo smart speakers).
Amazon Echo is a hands-free, voice-controlled
speaker that allow users to seek information, answers, play music, read the
news, get weather updates, control smart home devices using simple voice
commands.
Gopal Vittal, MD & CEO (India and South
Asia), Bharti Airtel
said, “Access to broadband is a key enabler of inclusive economic growth
and social wellbeing of rural inhabitants. We are pleased to support the
commendable initiatives by the DoT to ensure broadband access for every Indian
and in particular building the infrastructure backbone under BharatNet. The
Broadband Experience Centers established by Airtel in partnership with DoT
riding on BharatNet infrastructure will will open the doors to the digital
world for millions of Indians and unlock several exciting opportunities for
them.”
Jayshree Gururaj, Director - Amazon Devices, said, “Early access to technology, content and the Internet
has the proven potential to enrich lives. It breaks down barriers of technical
know-how and language. We are pleased to collaborate with Airtel and DoT to
introduce users in Ghazipur, Gorakhpur, Varanasi with the latest in voice
technology from Amazon Echo smart speakers”.
Dr Partap Chauhan, Director, Jiva Ayurveda
said, “Jiva Ayurveda is a
leading Ayurvedic treatment service provider company which runs the largest
telemedicine center in the world for Ayurveda. We are proud to partner with
Airtel and applaud the efforts of DoT in this breakthrough and ambitious
initiative of BharatNet. Connecting the 2.5 lakh Gram Panchayats will ensure
that affordable, quality healthcare becomes accessible at the complete
grassroots level.”
Under BharatNet, the Department of Telecom
(Government of India) has embarked upon a visionary project to connect 2.5 Lakh
gram panchayat villages with optical fiber connectivity. The project envisages
the extension of optical fiber from block head quarter to the gram panchayat
level. In the first phase, one lakh villages have been connected with Optical
Fiber for providing seamless broadband connectivity to the rural population.
The second phase of the project aims at connecting the remaining 1.5 lakh gram
panchayats which is targeted to be completed by March 2019.
For Further Information Please Contact
Vishal Mishra
8756000222
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