Express News Line: The state-owned telco BSNL is planing a big broadband splash in Pune. It- will become the first city to have BSNL’s “multi player services” on broadband like a bouquet of cable TV channels, video on demand, video conferencing, television to television SMS and e-classes. BSNL plans to launch the trial services on August 15, India’s independence day. “It is a national project but the pilot project is being experimented in Pune. If successful it would be replicated all over North India. In the South, Bangalore is initiating something similar but we hope to be the first in the country,” Gopal Krishna Agarwal, principal general manager, BSNL, Pune, told the paper. BSNL has signed up with the Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Ltd (MKCL) to provide content. The partnership between BSNL and MKCL is on revenue sharing basis. Currently, Pune has 27,000 broadband customers.
Pune is also going to have another first – to become India’s first Wi-Fi enabled city – since it had tied up with Intel for this.
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–Pune To Be India’s First Wi-Fi Enabled City; Pune Municipal Corp Ties Up With Intel For The Project
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