Give telcos adequate time for laying cables underground: K’taka govt tells Bengaluru municipal body

New Delhi: Karnataka government has directed Bengaluru municipal body to provide adequate time to telecom operators for laying cables underground, amid the authority snapping cables laid overhead, according to an industry body. Against the backdrop of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) deciding to cut telecom cables laid overhead citing that such connections violate existing norms, telecom players had raised the issue with the state government.

Telecom players grouping COAI’s Director General Rajan S Mathews told that the Karnataka government has now asked the BBMP to prepare a road map for routes where ducts have to be laid for telecom cables.