Bhutan investing to boost affordable broadband connectivity.

Text of report in English by the website of Bhutan's autonomous national newspaper Kuensel on 24 June

[By Gyalsten K. Dorji] The likelihood that the entire country will have affordable broadband internet connectivity by 2011 is looking more realistic. Bhutan Power Corporation Ltd (BPCL) and the Department of Information and Technology (DIT) recently held a meeting to resolve differences on the use of BPC electric towers for internet cables.

In a move to speed up the process of making broadband internet universally available and affordable, the government has decided to subsidize the installation of optical fibre composite overhead ground wire (OPGW) throughout the …