BSNL AND RAILTEL SIGN MoU ON JOINT
WORKING COLLABORATION
A Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) was signed between the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)
and the Railtel, here today. The MoU was signed by Shri Prithipal
Singh, Chairman-cum-Managing Director on behalf of BSNL and Shri
A.K. Chopra, Managing Director on behalf of Railtel. The Minister
of Communications, IT and Disinvestment, Shri Arun Shourie and
the Minister of Railways, Shri Nitish Kumar were present on the
occasion.
The highlights of
the MoU are that both Railtel and BSNL shall meet each other’s
requirement of the bandwidth/other services from their network
on mutually agreed terms. BSNL shall also provide technical knowhow
in designing the telecom network as and when required by Railtel.
Both the organisations have further identified some of the areas
for follow-up action:
- Lease of bandwidth/dark fibre
by Railtel on specified routes/sections to BSNL wherever feasible
as per BSNL’s requirement on the golden quadrilateral routes
connecting the four major metros of Chennai, Delhi, Kolkatta
& Mumbai and other routes.
- BSNL to examine the feasibility
of utilising Railtel OFC network for meeting rural telephony
requirements. Available routes/sections or routes/sections
already provided by Railtel, to be examined by BSNL for the
feasibility of utilising some of these for providing rural
telephony by BNSL.
- Project execution i.e. Laying
of Optical Fibre Cable and installation of equipment for Railtel
can be done by BSNL, on request by Railtel.
- BSNL will consider use of Railtel
infrastructure to provide continuous coverage of CellOne along
specific sections.
- BSNL may be given priority by
Railtel to provide Wireless/GSM PCO’s on trains.
- Railtel may consider deployment
of BSNL’s technical and financial experts on deputation basis
as per Railtel needs.
- BSNL may offer last mile and
interconnection to Railtel for their ILD and NLD requirement
whenever licence is granted, on priority.
It has also been
decided that a Joint Coordination Committee between the BSNL and
the Railtel will be set up to examine further areas of cooperation
as per the dynamic requirements of both the organisations in future.
The MoU signed between
the two organisations is valid for a period of 12 months.
