BSNL’s 3G service soon in 29 cities, towns in State

The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) will soon launch 3G service in 29 cities/ towns in the State, and is pushing through its webcasting plans.

“We will be launching (upgrading) the service with a higher bandwidth which will add value to the entertainment sector and strengthen video conferencing and other such facilities,’’ TN Sudhindra Kumar, Chief General Manager, Andhra Pradesh Circle, told Express here today.

“With mobile TVs being the order of the day, the 3G service will be grabbed by the entertainment industry and it strengthen the video portfolio,’’ he said and hoped that by March the service would be meeting with big success. BSNL, leading player in broadband service, is also planning to launch webconferencing soon.

“Demonstration of its working has been undertaken and negotiations are on with the corporate sector and other players,’’ he said.

BSNL’s Andhra Pradesh Circle has reached an agreement with CEPT, a USbased company that has developed the software for webcast.

“Those who witnessed the demonstration were enthused by the technology and negotiations with them are in an advanced stage,’’ he said.

Being the only company that is committed to reducing the digital divide between urban and rural areas, BSNL plans to allot 2.5 lakh additional broadband connections in the coming year.

“We have identified 2,600 telephone exchanges across the State where we will install `D Slam’ which is capable of catering to 60 broadband connections each. This will be done in the immediate future,’’ Kumar said.

The public sector telecommunications giant, which has over 80 per cent market share in broadband services, is also trying to catch up on the mobile phone business front and has launched Powerpack prepaid scheme and expects to have 1.5 lakh connections soon.

Anand a step closer to World title

World Champion Viswanathan Anand took another step forward to retain the world crown by taking another draw with challenger Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the 9th game of the world championship match now drawing to a close here.

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Bears have charged up. Sensex has broken another psychological mark of 8000 and Nifty slipped below 2300 level as well. Metal, FMCG, power, capital goods, banking, realty, IT and oil stocks collapsed like a pack of cards.

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Second medal for India as Sushil Kumar wins bronze

1. Grappler Sushil Kumar provided an unexpected boost to India's Olympic campaign by clinching bronze medal after beating Kazakhstan's Leonid Spiridonov in the repechage match of the men's freestyle wrestling 66kg class in Beijing on Wednesday

2. Final bow: Jitender Kumar loses 11-15 to Russia's Georgy Balakshin in the 51kg boxing event quarterfinal in Beijing.


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Michael Phelps- Grandest of Olympic Champions.....

Michael Phelps-

Won his record eighth gold medal of the Beijing Games on Sunday to become the grandest of Olympic champions.

The Olympic achievement of Michael Phelps, became the first competitor to win eight gold medals at a single Games, breaking Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven

(Spitz won seven gold medals at Munich in 1972, in 100m and 200m freestyle, 100m and 200m butterfly, 4x100m freestyle, 4x200m freestyle and 4x100m medley)

(Phelps won eight gold medals in (1) 400m individual medley, (2) 4x100m free relay, (3) 200m freestyle,(4) 200m butterfly, (5) 4x200m free relay, (6) 200m individual medley, (7) 100m butterfly, (8) 4x100m medley relay - all in a world record time)

Hopes dashed, Lee-Hesh crash out

Indian pair of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi crashed out of men's tennis doubles event losing their quarterfinal match to Swiss duo of Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka in the Beijing Olympics today (August 15). Paes and Bhupathi lost 2-6, 4-6 in the rain-hit match.

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