President Ram Nath Kovind will today embark on the Andhra Pradesh Fibre Grid project, aimed at providing high-speed internet service to every household in the state at a nominal rate, an official said Tuesday.The project also purposes to ensure every household in the state has access to cable television and telephone connections.
"CM Chandrababu Naidu expressed his happiness that his dream of providing internet, television and telephone services to the common man at a very nominal price is being realised," the media adviser to energy, infrastructure and investment department, A Chandrasekhar Reddy, said in a press release.
After the project's beginning, fibre power system connections would be available to around one lakh households with 100-percent connectivity in 55 villages.
Naidu, however, has emphasised on providing connections to 30 lakh households by 2019, the media adviser said.
"While the internet services would be available at a very high speed of 15Mbps to 100Mbps, the television services would provide infotainment with 250 plus channels, and the telephone services would be completely rental-free. It is going to herald a unique technology revolution in the state," he said.
"It will power digital classrooms in over 4,000 government schools and offer telemedicine services at over 6,000 public health centres. It will power the smart cities initiative," he said.