The Universal Service Fund (USF) has awarded six projects of Next Generation Broadband for Sustainable Development (NGBSD) worth Rs2.8 billion for the socio-economic uplift of the under-served and un-served areas of the country. As part of these projects hi-speed mobile broadband access will be provided to over nine million (approximately) citizens in total, residing in 4,333 mauzas spread across 13 districts.
The contracts of these projects were awarded for hi-speed broadband services were awarded to Telenor and PMCL (Jazz) for Hyderabad (districts of Matiari, Tando Allahyar, Hyderabad, Tando Muhammad Khan, Badin and Sujawal), Bahawalpur (district of Bahawalpur), Rahimyar Khan (district of Rahimyar Khan), Bahawalnagar (Bahawalnagar), DG Khan (DG Khan and Layyah), and Tharparkar (Tharparkar and Mirpurkhas).
A part of the second phase of the project USF plans to award contracts for the projects in Sanghar (Umerkot and Sanghar), Muzaffargarh (Muzaffargarh and Rajanpur), Kurram (Kurram), Bolan (Kacchi-Bolan and Jhal Magsi) and Jaffarabad (Jaffarabad, Sohbatpur and Nasirabad)
These contracts are expected be awarded in the second half of the FY 2019-2020.
