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Telecom companies eye aggressive expansion of optic fibre cable

With the huge appetite of firms, data centres, and the govt, the country's infrastructure must grow multifold

Telecom companies eye aggressive expansion of optic fibre cable
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Surajeet Das Gupta New Delhi
It might not be something which you savour every day like your mobile phone, but without optic cable fibre you wouldn’t have 5G high speed mobile services with speeds 100 times faster than 4G or have super-fast broadband at home to watch 3D movies. And large e-commerce data centres wouldn’t have enough bandwidth to process the data to handle millions of orders every minute and ensure on time delivery. 
 
But all this could change dramatically. Telcos who want to roll out 5G and fibre to the home and the government which wants to offer fixed broadband services to 50