USF Awards 10 Contracts Price Rs21bn for Distant Areas Connectivity

The Common Service Fund (USF) Board authorized an award of 10 contracts value Rs. 21 billion for the connectivity of the distant areas of Baluchistan, Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) provinces. These embrace high-speed cellular broadband tasks, highways and motorways tasks and optical fibre cable (OFC) tasks. These tasks will present 4G LTE connectivity and backhaul connectivity to approx. 3.5 million individuals. These will join 187 Union Councils (UCs) with 1,554 km of OFC. It would present seamless connectivity to 622 km of unserved street segments on the M-8 motorway and N-35 freeway.

USF Awards 10 Contracts Price Rs21bn for Distant Areas Connectivity

In line with the small print, the Board authorized the award of 5 high-speed cellular broadband contracts value roughly Rs. over 7.1 billion. These tasks will present 4G LTE providers within the rural areas of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan. These tasks will profit individuals dwelling in 262 unserved muazas of Dera Ghazi Khan, Layyah, Muzaffargarh, Multan and Rajanpur districts in Punjab; Jamshoro in Sindh; and Barkhan, Musakhel, Sherani and Sibi in Balochistan. Roughly, it can cowl an unserved space of 12,784.91 sq. km.

Moreover, the board authorized the award of two high-speed cellular broadband tasks for Nationwide Highways and Motorways value approx. Rs. 6 billion. These tasks will present 4G LTE providers to commuters on unserved street segments of 622.68 km on the M-8 motorway and N-35 freeway respectively.

Equally, the USF Board additionally authorized the award of three OFC tasks value roughly Rs. 7.7 billion for offering backhaul connectivity to 187 Union Councils (UCs) of Punjab and KPK. Below these tasks, USF will deploy a complete of 1,554 km of OFC that may profit over 3.3 million individuals within the districts of Attock, Sheikhupura and Nankana Sahib in Punjab and Bannu and Lakki Marwat in KPK. These tasks will join 684 instructional establishments, 223 authorities workplaces and 268 well being establishments together with necessary connectivity of 408 BTS towers.

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