MANGALORE: BSNL customers in Mangalore and Udupi will soon get high quality digital television channels, super high-speed Internet as well as landline facility all through a pair of fibre optic cables.
From September 10, people can look forward to Fibre To The Home (FTTH), under which these facilities will be bunched together, according to the Principal General Manager of Dakshina Kannada Telecom District of BSNL, Y.C. Mishra.
Hitherto, these services were being offered through copper cables which transmit limited amount of information.
Under the new technology, which is being tested in Mangalore, one pair of fibre optic cables can bring such a volume of information that the voice, data and television facilities can be extended to as many as 32 houses.
The technology is also known as Gigabit on Passive Optic Network (GPON).
100 mbps
BSNL officials interacting with The Hindu staff here on Thursday said that a unique feature of this facility was that the Internet would be available at speeds up to 100 mbps.
This was 400 times faster than the cut-off speed of 256 kbps for what is called broadband Internet (speeds below 256 kbps are not considered as broadband), according to Assistant General Manager (Consumers) S.M. Hegde.
The service will put FTTH consumers on a par with telecom customers in some select countries where the maximum speed of 100 mbps is offered by 4G mobile service providers, he added.
Matching speeds
Junior Telecom Officer Lissan Johnson said that FTTH would offer matching upload and download speeds unlike traditional Internet services where upload speeds are far lower than download speeds.
Mr. Mishra said that 35 of 50 GPON equipment had been installed in the city and 10 had been installed in Udupi. Together they would offer 16,000 FTTH connections. Over 150 channels.
Mr. Mishra said under FTTH, people would have a choice of over 150 television channels. The number could go up to 200 shortly.
The charges will be commensurate with the present data, (Internet) voice and IPTV services, Mr. Mishra said. Special rates, if any, would be announced in due course. However, he said that commercial establishments would find FTTH slightly more cost effective.
A demonstration of the service is on the cards, he added.
Mr. Mishra said the service could be offered to two-thirds of the population in the city. About 25 per cent of 38,000 broadband users were expected to shift to FTTH, he said.
Staff of the Income Tax department in the city would be the first customers to use FTTH, Mr. Mishra said.
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