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Department of Posts and TRAI Join Hands to Conduct India's Largest Village-Level Telecom ...
India's Department of Posts and TRAI have signed an MoU to conduct a nationwide mobile network performance survey across 5.68 lakh villages using postal workers and a TRAI-built Android app, generating field-level data to identify connectivity gaps and inform telecom infrastructure policy.
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The Wire takeaway
If you build rural telecom infrastructure or network optimization tools for India, the government just mapped exactly where the dead zones are—and which operators own which gaps. That data will drive the next 12 months of state-level deployment tenders.
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Topics: Data Infrastructure · rural-connectivity · telecom-infrastructure · government-survey · last-mile-network