KOLKATA: Universal Services Obligation Fund, or USOF, is open to a graded reduction in the annual payout by mobile phone companies only if it is linked to their meeting rural tele-density targets, the ...

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, ...

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

BharatNet and USOF will install internet services to bridge the digital divide between rural and urban areas through a PPP (Public Private Partnership) model. The government aims to connect all of its ...

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 ...

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 ...

DoT will allow multiple service providers to jointly set up infrastructure and claim support from the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) for it. DoT will allow multiple service providers to ...

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 ...

The government plans to set aside about 50% of the near Rs 35,000-crore corpus that is likely to be available in the Universal Services Obligation Fund. The peak subsidy outflow is based on Rs ...