K-FON connects 20L household with high-speed internet

It was about six months ago that a rooftop picture of a girl preparing for college examinations went viral on social media and other channels. The student, who climbed atop her house looking for better signal reception, was soon flooded with help from high-speed internet providers.

While the girl would be grateful for the viral picture for high speed internet, thousands of other students facing poor internet connectivity will be happy now after the Kerala Fiber Optic Network (K-FON) offered to provide high speed internet across the state.

The mega infrastructure project of the Government of Kerala aims to build a high-speed, stable and scalable fiber network across the state for 30,000 government institutions and 20 lakh households through the transmission and distribution facility of the Kerala State Electricity Board Limited.

The K-FON project can provide fast internet, landline, and cable TV to all destinations where the KSEB electrical posts are available and intend to offer free internet access to more than 12 lakh BPL families in the state.

A sum of 1516.76 crore is the total estimated expense of the project. Connection will be provided through the transmission line infrastructure of KSEB, as that avoids unnecessary road digging. While there is 600 km underground cable, KSEB has a network capacity spread over 2 lakh km.

South Korea will provide the equipment and material for the mega project of Kerala, the first phase of which is already under way. A combination of All Dielectric Self Supporting, Fiber Optic Cable and Optical Ground Wire will be used for the cable to attain best reliability and reception.

The project had received the administrative approval on May 18, 2017. Mobile phone operators offering net via wired and wireless mode can lease out the fully-wired and K-FON network for its operations. Cable TV operators paying pole rental charges to the KSEB can utilise the network too.

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