The Indian Army and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) on October 6, 2023, established the first-ever BTS on the Siachen Glacier, the world’s highest battlefield. The BTS will provide mobile communication to soldiers deployed at more than 15,500 feet above sea level.
A BTS is a fixed radio transceiver in any mobile network. It connects mobile devices to the network and sends and receives radio signals to mobile devices, converting them to digital signals that it passes on the network to route to other terminals in the network or to the Internet.
Siachen Glacier is known as the highest-altitude battle site in the world and is situated near the Indo-Pak Line of Control. It is the largest glacier in India and the second largest in the world. It is also the highest battleground on earth.
