BSNL broadband a farce in CCpur

By S Singlianmang Guite
Lamka, Dec 23: The state owned BSNL's broadband despite its introduction in this township some years back, resembles a farce as the number of days it was worth nothing supersedes its actual working days.
For the past one month or so, for reasons best known to the department, the BSNL broadband fails to cons-tantly function for a day, and added to the subscri-bers' apathy was the cons- tant degradation of it ser-vices.
The erratic broad- band service of the state run BSNL has also forced many vernacular media houses in the district to run after pri-vate services such as Tata's Photon or SIM based GPRS providers.
As the private players are yet to introduce the speed resembling that of the BSNL and the high price they charge for their ser-vice, these houses inclu- ding Cyber Cafes and indi-vidual surfers were affected the most.
Despite the proximity of the district to the state capital and all weathered road connectivity, the infor-mation technology that was supposedly assumed to break the barriers fails to connect the local populace of the district with the other world and the many complaints lodged with the telecom office here barely falls on the ears of two technical assistants that were simply entrusted by the irregular officers including the JTO.(TSE)