Deadline missed: Bengaluru streets still tangled in illegal cables

Bescom’s deadline to remove optic fiber cables (OFCs) may have ended, but the wires continue to dangle dangerously across the city as death traps.

Back-to-back fatalities had prompted Bescom to set a seven-day deadline for all internet service providers (ISPs) to remove OFCs strung illegally to electrical poles. Senior Bescom officials said that not many companies have bothered to remove the cables despite the deadline passing.

“They are removed only in a few places,” a senior official said. “Since the deadline has passed, we have to take action to remove them.”