The Universal Service Fund (USF) fibre-optic will lay around 4000 km long optical fiber links by end of the current financial year to interface the unserved and underserved regions in the country and will carry the all out associated regions to 12000 km.
This was expressed by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) USF, Haaris Mahmood Chaudhry, after a gathering about continuing with the use of the current optical fiber link laid in the country.
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The gathering was led by the Federal Secretary Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication, Shoaib Ahmad Siddiqui.
Chaudhry said that around 8000 km long optical fiber link had been laid to interface the underserved and unserved zones of Pakistan throughout the most recent 10 years. He added that an objective of 4000 km optical fiber links has been set for the current monetary year, of which 2400 km has been finished at an expense of Rs. 6 billion, and that the leftover objective of 1600 km would be accomplished before the finish of June.
He additionally explained that there is no security issue with respect to the laying of links in the previous FATA, and that activities are being started in Mohmand, Khyber, and Aurakzai.
The CEO USF announced that an objective of 6000 km would be set for the following monetary year. He inquired as to whether around 8000 km of optical fiber link had been laid during the most recent 11 years, how the equivalent could be accomplished in around three years.
Chaudhry additionally expressed that six activities had been done during 2018, and 2019 and 12 somewhere in the range of 2019 and 2020, while 20 undertakings are to be finished somewhere in the range of 2020 and 2021.
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The USF intends to advance the improvement of telecom administrations in the unserved and underserved provincial territories to make voice communication and essential information administrations accessible and moderate all over Pakistan. This additionally requires the foundation of a steady and solid optic fiber network in all edges of the country.
This undertaking means to stretch out optic fiber availability to the unserved tehsil base camp to satisfy the developing prerequisites for voice, information, and recordings in these territories. Giving fiber links to the tehsils will help the telecom specialist co-ops in stretching out a wide range of administrations to such regions, and can be compared to ‘building data engine approaches to all the tehsils’ as per the USF site.
