Tamil Nadu to emulate Kerala’s Okay-FON venture
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By Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Tamil Nadu’s IT Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan (PTR) held discussions with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan relating to the adoption of the Okay-FON (Kerala Fibre Optic Network) venture’s profitable framework.
During his go to to Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday, Thiaga Rajan expressed eager curiosity in replicating the Kerala mannequin and sought updates on the progress of the initiative. The assembly noticed the participation of key officers together with Tamil Nadu IT Secretary J Kumaragurubaran, Tanfinet Corporation MD John Lewis, Kerala IT Secretary Rethan U Khelkar, Okay-FON MD Santosh Babu, and others.
Okay-FON was formally launched in Kerala on June 5, this 12 months, with the objective of delivering high-speed connectivity to properties, companies, and authorities institutions throughout the state. The preliminary part focuses on offering web companies to 14,000 economically deprived households and 30,000 authorities places of work.
The Okay-FON venture has laid down an intensive IT infrastructure able to accommodating 4 million web connections throughout Kerala. Internet plans begin at a baseline velocity of 20 Mbps, with the supply to scale as much as larger speeds based mostly on particular person wants. Okay-FON has been efficiently built-in into 26,492 authorities places of work, with 17,354 places of work having fun with lively web entry.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Tamil Nadu’s IT Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan (PTR) held discussions with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan relating to the adoption of the Okay-FON (Kerala Fibre Optic Network) venture’s profitable framework.
During his go to to Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday, Thiaga Rajan expressed eager curiosity in replicating the Kerala mannequin and sought updates on the progress of the initiative. The assembly noticed the participation of key officers together with Tamil Nadu IT Secretary J Kumaragurubaran, Tanfinet Corporation MD John Lewis, Kerala IT Secretary Rethan U Khelkar, Okay-FON MD Santosh Babu, and others.
Okay-FON was formally launched in Kerala on June 5, this 12 months, with the objective of delivering high-speed connectivity to properties, companies, and authorities institutions throughout the state. The preliminary part focuses on offering web companies to 14,000 economically deprived households and 30,000 authorities places of work.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The Okay-FON venture has laid down an intensive IT infrastructure able to accommodating 4 million web connections throughout Kerala. Internet plans begin at a baseline velocity of 20 Mbps, with the supply to scale as much as larger speeds based mostly on particular person wants. Okay-FON has been efficiently built-in into 26,492 authorities places of work, with 17,354 places of work having fun with lively web entry.