BSNL has announced June-end as the deadline for completion of its submarine cable project. It is laying a 332 km long submarine cable connecting India and Sri Lanka, which will facilitate the creation of the company’s own international gateway. The cable will also reduce the huge recurring expenditure involved in hiring services to connect long distance calls from other service providers. The telecom major also plans to lay a 2,304 km optic fibre cable (OFC) in Tamil Nadu and Kerala in the next five years. The OFC will connect all taluk headquarters and GSM sites in a ring formation along with the existing 470,000 km of OFC.
