Capacity constrains @ BSNL broadband
The capacity constraints faced by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Coimbatore, in releasing new broadband connections with reference to earlier projects is expected to ease by November-end or first week of December.The BSNL had, in fact, declared 2007 as Broadband Year and went all-out to promote broadband product. When applications started pouring in for the service, initially the BSNL faced port constraints at the exchanges besides scarcity for modem. When both the constraints were overcome, the capacity in terms of the licence for creating user name and password at the National Internet Backbone (NIB) got exhausted thus, forcing the authorities to temporarily suspend the release of new connections, highly placed sources in BSNL said.Even as the applications for broadband kept pouring in, the BSNL decided to step up its phase III of the expansion project in a bid to clear the waitlist of 3,400 applications. According to BSNL sources, the Acceptance Testing (AT) for the broadband multi-play gadgets installed at the various exchanges is in final stages. The testing and commissioning of the phase III of the broadband project was over at Chennai and Kolkatta and now Coimbatore was expediting the process for meeting the increasing demand.
Already 60 to 70 per cent of the installations and AT were over. The remaining works in respect of the new multi-play broadband equipment under Phase III of the expansion project would get over in the next one or two weeks. The BSNL was simultaneously gearing up for the migration of the existing broadband users into the multi-play facility. Once the phase III expansion project gets commissioned with a licence for vast capacity for registering user name and password, the BSNL is confident of clearing the huge backlog of waiting list besides being in a position to provide broadband connections on demand.
According to BSNL officials, the backlog of waitlisted applications would be cleared by November third week, applications for new connections would be met on demand by December first week and simultaneously the existing subscribers would also be migrated to the multi-play facility.By the turn of the year, BSNL would be able to resolve the capacity constraints completely besides being able to be ready for meeting the future demand.
