AGARTALA, Jan 15 (TIWN): Tripura is all set to get faster internet connection as the inauguration of internet Bandwidth is just a few days’ away, said BSNL DGM U.C. Bhowmik. Talking to TIWN correspondent on Thursday, BSNL DGM U.C. Bhowmik said that the work of laying optical fibre is complicated and once the inauguration is held the landlocked state is expected to get faster internet connectivity. Reiterating the words of the Chief General Manger (CGM), NE circle-I KK Saxsena, Bhowmik said that if possible the inauguration of the Internet gateway through Cox Bazar’s submarine cable would be done in the January itself. Necessary testing and security checking on the new system are in the process from both the side of Bangladesh as well as India. The much awaited aim of Tripura to emerge as the Third internet gateway is not a far away as the work is underway in full swing to meet the deadline by January and began the service full-flegedly. With emerge of service of Internet Bandwidth it is expected that the internet service will be upgraded in the state and people will be able to use the internet in full swing. DGM (CFA) U.C. Bhowmik assured that the optical fibre laying work is likely to get completed by January 2016 and accordingly the service will also be developed.

Asked about the issue if any hurdles are obstructing the optical fibre laying work, he said that there so far there is no report of hurdles so far and if the free circumstances remain the work will be easily completed in the given deadline, added Bhowmik.

Agartala, Tripura's capital city, would be the third international internet gateway in India after Mumbai and Chennai.

India-Bangladesh surplus under-sea internet bandwidth (10 Gbps) sale agreement was signed during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s historic June 2015 visit to Dhaka in presence of Hon. Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina

India and Bangladesh signed pact on sharing Internet bandwidth as a result of which the submarine cable providing Net to Bangladesh will travel to Agartala from Cox's Bazar via Brahmanbaria. 

India and Bangladesh signed pact on sharing Internet bandwidth as a result of which the submarine cable providing Net to Bangladesh will travel to Agartala from Cox's Bazar via Brahmanbaria. At present Bangladesh is connected to SEA-ME-WE-4 submarine cable with 200gbps bandwidth, of which it uses only 30gbps.