NEW DELHI: Around Rs 10,000 crore will be spent from the USO Fund in 2016-17 to speed up digital infrastructure projects even as the Finance Ministry remains conservative in allocations from it, ...

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared utilisation of the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) for provision of mobile connectivity in 7,287 uncovered villages across five states at an estimated ...

While the government claimed that the agreement will augment high-speed internet connectivity, it will be a while before the bandwidth is actually delivered to users. The Universal Service Obligation ...

Economic Survey 2024: The Economic Survey 2023-24, tabled in Parliament on Monday, announced that the government will allocate 5 per cent of the Universal Services Obligation Fund (USOF) for research ...

The Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF), the telecom department's (DoT) Rs 58,000-crore reserve to fund rural and remote digital connectivity, has apparently come under dock for awarding ...

However, owing to lack of interest from private players and the merger of BSNL and Bharat Broadband Network (BBNL) in July, the government has put the PPP model in abeyance, sources said. For the ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday held a cabinet meeting and gave his approval for the provisioning of mobile services in uncovered villages of aspirational districts across five states of ...

As on March 2014 the USOF had total accrual of Rs 58,579.35 crore, of which only Rs 24,896 crore was disbursed to the department of telecommunications for rural telecom projects. (Reuters) When ...

The Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) under the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has inked a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Prasar Bharati, the national public service ...

The government could use the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) to help telecom companies, which are currently struggling to clear their adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues, according to a report ...

New Delhi [India], Sept.21 (ANI): The Union Cabinet has approved a proposal to extend a subsidy support of Rs. 1,250 crore to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) from the Universal Service Obligation ...