Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company plans to sign a deal with an Indian firm this month to export 10 gigabits per second bandwidth to Tripura, a northeastern state in India.
A team will go to India to sign the deal tentatively on January 27 with state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd or BSNL.
BSNL will purchase 10 Gbps initially and will increase the amount gradually, said Monwar Hossain, managing director of Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company, a state-owned entity.
A 22-kilometre optical fibre cable link from Brahmanbaria to Akhaura boarder will be developed in four months to transport the bandwidth.
“We will rent the link to be developed by a firm suggested by Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission,” Hossain said.
Meghalaya and Assam also expressed their interest to have such facility from Bangladesh, he said. “We hope to export at least 100 GB bandwidth to the northeastern states of India in future,” he said.
The deal was supposed to be signed in the middle of last year, he said. “But it was postponed then as BSNL wanted tele-transit through Bangladesh instead of purchasing bandwidth.”
http://www.thedailystar.net/bandwidth-export-deal-with-india-this-month-59789
If media reports are to be believed then BSNL will buy Each Mbps for Rs.85/month for an bulk quantity of 40Gbps but since they're signing up just 10Gbps initially for 1.5 Cr/year that could cost them Rs.130/month per mbps
A team will go to India to sign the deal tentatively on January 27 with state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd or BSNL.
BSNL will purchase 10 Gbps initially and will increase the amount gradually, said Monwar Hossain, managing director of Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company, a state-owned entity.
A 22-kilometre optical fibre cable link from Brahmanbaria to Akhaura boarder will be developed in four months to transport the bandwidth.
“We will rent the link to be developed by a firm suggested by Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission,” Hossain said.
Meghalaya and Assam also expressed their interest to have such facility from Bangladesh, he said. “We hope to export at least 100 GB bandwidth to the northeastern states of India in future,” he said.
The deal was supposed to be signed in the middle of last year, he said. “But it was postponed then as BSNL wanted tele-transit through Bangladesh instead of purchasing bandwidth.”
http://www.thedailystar.net/bandwidth-export-deal-with-india-this-month-59789
If media reports are to be believed then BSNL will buy Each Mbps for Rs.85/month for an bulk quantity of 40Gbps but since they're signing up just 10Gbps initially for 1.5 Cr/year that could cost them Rs.130/month per mbps