Telecom and technology majors including Bharti Airtel, Reliance Infratel, STL , Cisco, Larson & Toubro and Hughes Communications are among nearly 40 companies vying to take broadband services to rural India as part of the country’s ambitious BharatNet project, documents accessed by ET show. The pre-bid conference for the rollout of the second phase of the project, which is expected to link 3.61 lakh villages by August 2023 recorded heightened

Source: Economic Times August 17, 2021 00:22 UTC