Hearing that the Universal Service Fund (USF) has approved 10 projects estimated to cost 11.5 billion rupees to provide broadband Internet services and fiber optic projects for Kumrat Valley, Swat and other 19 unserviced and underserved projects, travel enthusiasts will be very happy. Happy. Serving the area of Pakistan.
This week, the USF Board of Directors held a meeting under the chairmanship of Sohail Rajput, Secretary of the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications (MoITT). Board members attended the meeting. USF CEO Haris Mehmood Chaudhry introduced different development projects to board members to promote connectivity in remote areas of the country.
The USF Board of Directors approved the award of high-speed mobile broadband contracts to three telecommunications companies, and the optical fiber cable project contract has been handed over to PTCL.
The USF Board of Directors approved the award of a high-speed mobile broadband contract to a telecommunications company in the Mianwali and Khushab regions of Punjab. The company will provide services to approximately 370,000 people in 186 unserviced muazas and approximately 5,080 square kilometers of unserviced areas.
The board of directors also approved the award of the high-speed mobile broadband project in the tourist destination contract to a telecommunications company covering the Mansehra, Abbottabad, Swat and Upper Dir areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
These projects will provide an unserved route length of 153.83 kilometers and an unserved area of approximately 65.51 square meters. kilometer. Tourism projects in destinations such as Janat Nazeer Wadi and Kumrat will strengthen the Prime Minister’s tourism plan, and tourists and local citizens will enjoy the fastest Internet and network services.
According to the special instructions of the Federal Minister of Information Technology and Telecommunications Syed Aminul Haque, the preliminary technical investigation and design of these projects have been completed in record time, and these projects are expected to be completed in the shortest possible time.
In addition, the board of directors also approved the award of a high-speed mobile broadband contract to a telecommunications company to provide high-speed mobile broadband services in the Las Bella and Avalan regions of Balochistan. The service will be 223 muazas and approximately 39,012 square kilometers of unserviced area.
Similarly, the board of directors also approved the award of a high-speed mobile broadband contract to another telecommunications company for the provision of high-speed mobile broadband services in the Buner and Shangla regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The service will be 102 unserviced Approximately 95,840 unserved people in the muaza provide services and an unserved area of approximately 1,232 square meters. kilometer.
The USF Board of Directors also approved the OFC plan at the trade union council level and awarded PTCL a fiber optic cable contract to provide backhaul connections in the Mianwali, Dadu, Jamshoro, Badin and Hyderabad regions of Sindh province, which will provide approximately 3.7 unaccepted Served population provided services by laying 1,385 kilometers of fiber optic cables and installing 301 BTS towers, and received $1 million in 135 unserviced union committees
In a speech at the meeting, Dr. Muhammad Sohail Rajput, Federal Minister of Information Technology and Telecommunications and Chairman of the USF Board of Directors, stated that USF was established 15 years ago, but in the first 12 years, the implementation of the project has been very slow.
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