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Telecommunications Info-Tech - Telecommunications Bharti to use WLL tech for last-mile in Delhi Our Bureau
New Delhi , Oct. 11 BHARTI Telenet Ltd is using the wireless in local loop (WLL) technology to provide last-mile connectivity for its fixed line telephone services in the Capital. Bharti has recently been allocated 5 mega hertz (MHz) of frequency for the service. "There are several areas in Delhi where digging is not possible and so we cannot provide a telephone using a copper wire in the normal way. To overcome this problem, we had applied to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to let us use WLL technology to provide fixed line telephones," the Bharti Telenet President, Mr Badri Agarwal, told Business Line. Mr Agarwal, however, clarified that the WLL technology would be used only for the last-mile connectivity and not for providing limited mobility services of the type offered by Reliance Infocomm Ltd and Tata Teleservices Ltd. Last-mile connectivity refers to the final connectivity between a subscriber's telephone and the closest distribution point of the service provider. Mr Agarwal said that Bharti was the first service provider in the country to use WLL technology for the last-mile connectivity in Madhya Pradesh. A similar facility would be offered to potential subscribers in Delhi and Gurgaon to build on the subscriber base that currently stood at 1.4 lakh connections. Out of about 2.4 lakh fixed line subscribers in Madhya Pradesh, about 40,000 were using WLL for the last-mile connectivity, he said. In a letter to the company, DoT has said Bharti was being allocated WLL frequencies 882.57/837.57 and 883.8/838.8 following the Railways vacating part of the excess spectrum being held by them. Bharti had applied for setting up 30 base tower stations to provide the service and has been asked by the DoT to intimate the date for launch of services so that the royalty and licence fees structure could be worked out.
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