RailTel partners with C-DoT with plans to extend their elaborate telecom services to meet the requirements of customers across the country. Providing low-cost broadband services to the rural population is a main part of the collaborated efforts.

RailTel Corporation, the Indian Railways ministry technical arm, has extended its hand in partnership with the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT), the state-run telecom research and development organisation for enhancement of telecom services in India.

The key focus of this dynamic partnership is the modernisation and advancement of the telecom network Pan India. Even with extensive internet facilities and numerous telecom service providers, rural India is still miles away from achieving full digitisation. Hence the partnership between RailTel and C-DoT will focus mainly on rationalising the hardware of communication networks across India. This will help provide affordable broadband internet services to the rural, remote areas where internet is still a far possibility to many.

A RailTel statement that has been released states that The MoU has been signed with “the objective of working together in the diverse areas of telecom with a key focus on the modernisation and expansion of communication networks across the country”,

While RailTel is a PSU-public sector unit and it is also a neutral telecom infrastructure provider which owns an optic fiber network of 60,000 route kilometers along with the Railway Track Pan India. C-DoT is an important part of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) which concentrates mainly on research and development in the communications sector.

A PTI report says that Puneet Chawla, RailTel CMD expects the partnership between C-DOT and RailTel will bring about more opportunities to be able to provide low-cost broadband services as a result of lowering the cost of the equipment, which will be made in India with C-DoT’s very own technological innovations.

With this project, Internet service providers will be able to save expenses on investments in infrastructure which in turn will prove useful in providing affordable internet services to telecom subscribers.