AGARTALA, Dec 11 (TIWN): 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 the 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 complete 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.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.Agartala, Tripura's capital city, would be the third international internet gateway in India after Mumbai and Chennai.

The much waited project of Internet Bandwidth from Bangladesh’s submarine cable for the up gradation of the internet services of the State seems to get connected in few days as the authority is working round the clock to complete the process of laying the submarine cable line upto Aukhaura in the given deadline.Stressing on the issue of the equipment, he further said that maximum of the equipment are brought from outside the state and few of the equipment are still on the way and will be catered to Agartala soon.

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.

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. 

Bangladesh has agreed to sell off its unused submarine Internet bandwidth to India's state owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) for $ 1.2 million (Rs 7.7 crores) a year.