New Delhi: Optical fibre laying needs to increase nearly four times to realise Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of connecting every village with broadband within 1,000 days, Tower and Infrastructure Providers Association (Taipa) said Tuesday.
Besides, government projects like smart cities, rollout of emerging technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, internet of things etc call for connecting all mobile towers in the country with optical fibre cables (OFC), Taipa said.
“Prime Minister laid out the vision in August 2020, to connect every village in the country with OFC in 1,000 days. To achieve this vision, the cables would have to be laid at nearly 3.6 times the current speed, up from the existing average of 350 kilometer a day to over 1,251 kilometers a day,” Taipa Director-General TR Dua told PTI.