Hyderabad: L&T Construction has started laying of 65,000 km of optical fibre cable (OFC) as a part of the complete optical fibre Infrastructure deployment in Telangana from its zonal headquarters right up to homes via the mandals and the gram panchayats.

Project initiated by Telalanga government and handled by Telangana Fibre Grid Corporation Ltd, is partially funded by Central Government's Bharatnet programme.

It is envisaged to accelerate the development of the State in the field of information and communication technology (ICT) that will strengthen the G2G and G2C services and can be leveraged to effectively deliver reliable triple play services of voice, video and data to the citizens.

L&T's Smart World and Communication (SW&C) and Power Transmission & Distribution (PT&D) businesses are jointly executing the project which is one of the largest communication networks in India.

The initial design & survey works are being completed and the roll out will establish IP-MPLS Infrastructure and optical fibre network for affordable high-speed broadband connectivity and digital services across 4 zones, 11 districts, 215 mandals, 3201-gram panchayats and approximately 8.65 lakhs households in the State.