‘Optic fibre makes a major part of telecom carriers digital infrastructure spend’

NEW DELHI: Optic-fibre cable or OFC contributes a major pie of the Indian telecom carriers expenditure on creating digital infrastructure which is also a backbone to achieve Centre’s ambitious Digital India vision, an executive of the country’s top fibre maker said.

“Telcos are making aggressive investments in digital network infrastructure, and optic-fibre cable holds a major share of telcos’ overall digital infrastructure investment,” Anand Agarwal, group chief executive Sterlite Technologies Limited (STL) told ETTelecom.

Following the demand triggered by service providers’ aggressive Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) strategy, and upcoming fifth generation (5G) networks, the Pune-based predominant optic-fibre producer is planning to invest Rs 300-crore to boost its production capacity, while the second-largest HFCL Limited is also eyeing to increase production capability by at least 33%.