TELECOMMUNICATIONS IX
Sector: Manufacturing (Industrial) • Location: India
Source: World Bank Group
The Ninth Telecommunications Project will help meet the growing demand for telecommunications services and improve the quality of these services, through the expansion and upgrading of the telephone and telex networks in Bombay, Delhi, Madras and Calcutta and the long-distance links between them. To this end, the project includes (a) installation of local and long distance transmission facilities
- Status
- Closed
- Sector
- Manufacturing (Industrial), Telecommunications, Government
- Location
- India
- Updated
- 22 Jul 2026
- Source
- World Bank Group
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Description | The Ninth Telecommunications Project will help meet the growing demand for telecommunications services and improve the quality of these services, through the expansion and upgrading of the telephone and telex networks in Bombay, Delhi, Madras and Calcutta and the long-distance links between them. To this end, the project includes (a) installation of local and long distance transmission facilities, within and between the four metropolitan networks, together with local and long distance telephone and telex switching facilities, associated urban cable networks, subscriber plant and buildings. It also provides for (b) (i) modernization and expansion of domestic satellite earth station networks; (ii) establishment of a packet switched data network among the four metropolitan cities and other major cities and industrial areas; (iii) establishment of a long distance network management system including appropriate facilities; and (iv) introduction of automatic message accounting facilities in the four metropolitan networks. Lastly, the project entails (c) support, of a program for upgrading five regional telecommunications training centers and manpower development; and (d) provision of consultants' services. |
Original sector | Information and Communications Technologies |
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Country | India |
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Source | World Bank Group |
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Record type | Project |
Sector | Manufacturing (Industrial), Telecommunications, Government |
Article published date | 2025-12-17 |
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