HFCL to up Hyderabad unit cable production by a third

NEW DELHI: HFCL Limited, one of the India’s largest optic fibre manufacturers, is planning to increase Fibre-to-the-Home or FTTH cable production by 33% at its Hyderabad facility following the robust domestic and overseas demand, and a Rs 7,500-crore orderbook.

“We are going to increase capacity of FTTH cables in Hyderabad in near future by 33% from the present capacity, and aiming to complete this in next 3 months,” Mahendra Nahata, managing director of HFCL said, adding that the Delhi-based company is currently supplying cable to ‘large operators’ deploying last-mile fibre network for home and enterprise users.

India’s top two incumbents – Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, in a bid to outsmart each other, are aggressively focussing on creating a dense Fibre-to-the-Home networks in large cities for triple-play services that has also gained much traction on the back of work-from-home due to Covid-19-induced lockdown.