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Thiruvananthapuram, Oct. 7 All those on wait-list will be provided telephone connections in Kerala Circle of BSNL by the end of the current fiscal.

By then, the Circle would be in a position to provide connections ‘on demand’ in most of the locations, said Mr K.S. Srinivasan, Chief General Manager, Kerala Telecom Circle. At present, 1.07 lakh applications are on wait-list.

He said that the Circle planned to give 3.26 lakh landline connections, 4.48 lakh WLL connections and 8.5 lakh mobile connections by March 31, 2008. Besides, 1.24 lakh broadband connections are also in the pipeline.

Mr Srinivasan said that till September 30 of the current year, 62,261 new landline, 62,148 WLL and 1.07 lakh cellular connections had been provided. Also, 2,366 public telephones have been installed during the period. The Circle also provided 21,110 Internet and 15,645 broadband connections in the first quarter of the year, apart from laying 332.45 km of fibre optic cable.

Mr Srinivasan said Kerala had become the first State in the country with public telephone facility in all panchayats and villages with 1.27 lakh phones in place. The State is also the first one in the country having all digital electronic exchanges (1,237) with STD facility.

The tele-density is 12.64 per 100 population in respect of basic telephones, 19.09 per 100 population inclusive of mobile phones and 40 per 100 population if the private operators are also taken into account.

This is the highest in the country. Besides, the Circle has 49.14 lakh lines of equipped capacity and 40.36 lakh working lines, making it the largest basic service network among the 24 territorial circles in the country.

Mr Srinivasan said that after 100 per cent digitalisation of exchanges, external plant upgradation and subscriber-controlled dynamic STD locking facility, the billing complaints had come down significantly.

The percentage of excess metering complaints as on August 31, 2007, was only 0.01 per cent as against the corporate office norm of 0.02 per cent, he added.

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