Centre announces rules to maintain overhead optical fibre cables

The Centre has announced guidelines to maintain overhead optical fibre cables by amending the Indian Telegraph Right of Way (RoW) Rules (November 2016), giving a boost to broadband and 5G infrastructure in the country.

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has notified it has amended the Act to prescribe various terms and conditions to lay the overhead optical fibre cables.

Nominal one-time compensation and uniform procedure to lay the cables has been introduced, it said.

The amount of one-time compensation to establish the overhead cable will be a maximum Rs 1,000 per km.

The paperwork for the right of way application has been made simple.