As of March 2025, the country deployed nearly 700,000 route kilometres of optical fibre cable, with southern states like Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana leading the expansion. 98 lakh route km of optical fibre cables have been laid across the country during the last three years, the Central government informed the Parliament on Thursday (31 July). The information was given in response to a question in the Rajya Sabha, by Union Minister of State for Communications. The Big Tech is moving toward an annual spend of Rs 5000 crore in fibre cable networks. The Indian telcos and the government are also planning fibre deployments. India has shown substantial progress in expanding its optical fibre cable (OFC). As on September 30, 2022, a total of 35. They are laid by specially designed cable-laying ships, complex platforms containing a large turntable on which several thousand tons of cable are wound. Once one end of a cable is connected to a. As on 30.
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