New Delhi: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) on Saturday launched the Bharat Telecom Stack or intelligent ‘Swadesh 4G Network’, which will connect over 26,700 villages with high-speed internet connectivity for the first time.

BSNL unveiled the network, which is a modern and secure solution designed and developed entirely in India in collaboration with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), and Tejas Networks Limited.

With this launch, India becomes the fifth country in the world to have built a self-reliant, indigenous telecom technology stack supporting 4G and beyond.

“As a mission mode program, TCS spearheaded its execution by establishing data centres, installing and commissioning C-DOT’s EPC Core Application, Tejas’s Base Stations and Radio

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