GANGTOK: BSNL is expected to expand and improve the quality of telecom service in Sikkim within the next six months.
Addressing the newspersons on the occasion of the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, S N Roychoudhury, General Manager, Telecom, said a total of ten new Base Transmission Systems (BTS) towers will be set up in different parts of the state in next six months to provide better connectivity to the customers.
With this, the total number of BTS would rise to 58 in Sikkim.
The BSNL would also set up 18 Wireless in Local Loop (WLL) exchanges with world class wireless telephones in the rural areas of the state.
These exchanges are meant specially to address the communication issue for the poor people in the rural areas, he added.
Roychoudhury said, '' A plan is also on to set up a BTS in Nathu La on the Indo-China border. This will depend on the cooperation of the army and approval from the Centre. ''
Work had already started to provide broadband services in 12 new places in addition to existing six, Roychowdhury said.
Almost 90 per cent of the telecom consumers in the state were covered by BSNL, he added.
Apart from the upcoming expansion drive, BSNL was also laying stress on improving its services.
'' The projects for laying Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) replacing Ariel OFC are in progress. We are also putting up optical fiber ring across the state to provide uninterrupted services to our customers, '' he said.
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