Indian telecom majors Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications (RCom) have sought to build a fibre optic network in Bangladesh to get connected to the isolated north-eastern states, a report said on Sunday.
Bharti Airtel and RCom recently submitted a joint proposal to Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to connect India’s seven sisters in the north-east, offering Bangladesh access to the alternative submarine cable in exchange, the Daily Star newspaper said.
The seven north-eastern states now get telecom services through VSAT (very small aperture terminal) at a high price.
A BTRC official confirmed the report and said that as per the proposal, Bangladesh could use the companies’ undersea cable network as an alternative to the lone submarine cable SEA-ME-WE-4.
