RIL Seeks AP Support to Set up Submarine Cable Landing Station in Vizag

The cable landing station will connect the east coast to Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Myanmar, south-east Asia and onwards.

February 18, 2018

Mukesh Ambani-headed Reliance Industries (RIL) has sought the Andhra Pradesh governments support for setting up an international submarine cable landing station (CLS) at Visakhapatnam, an official said today. Ambani mooted the proposal for setting up the CLS during his two-hour meeting with Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu at the Secretariat.

The CLS will connect the east coast to Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Myanmar, south-east Asia and onwards. No further details of the proposed project were revealed because of “strategic reasons”, the official said. RIL has also proposed to set up state-of-the-art telecom and information technology infrastructure on a 10-acre site “to propel AP into a data superpower”, he said.