Kolkata, Jan 25: West Bengal finance minister Amit Mitra Monday asked telecom companies on ways to push mobile governance with latest high speed 4G network.
“State is offering mobile governance to its citizens with SMS services for disaster management, health, consumer affairs and consumer affairs. We want companies to come forward and propose what more can be done with the new high speed technology of 4G,” Mitra said at the launch of 4G service of Vodafone in the city.
Vodafone launched 4G services in Kolkata with Airport to Jadavpur and BBD Bag to Sector V in first phase. “We will expand the coverage gradually. We will soon expand our 4G services in a phased manner to launch 4G across the city of Kolkata by June-2016,” Vodafone business head, Kolkata and Rest of Bengal, A N Sahai said.
He said data was contributing around 25 per cent of total revenue and growing at a rate of over 45 per cent annually.
Vodafone accumulated investment was nearly Rs 9,000 crore in West Bengal and out of that Rs 986 core was invested this year.
