Bharti Airtel has reportedly recommended the setting up of an optic fibre regulatory authority to ensure faster, transparent, and more economically sound fibre deployment in India. According to Airtel, the authority will ensure optimum utilisation by effective sharing among service providers.
Further, such an authority will help bridge differences between telecom service providers and state authorities, and local bodies, thereby ensuring faster rollout of the underground cable infrastructure.
Moreover, the telco is of the view that the proposed body can also facilitate permissions to build fibre across jurisdictional domains of roads (state /national highways), railways, cities and towns (municipalities), forest and defence areas, with clearly defined exceptions.
