Mysuru Telecom District, which has to lay the cables across 700 km in its jurisdiction, currently has the approval to do so for 400 km. However, progress has been delayed on account of various hurdles including opposition by the councillors.

June 13, 2017

Strong opposition by councillors to the digging of roads appears to be slowing down BSNL’s progress in laying optical fibre cables across the city to provide subscribers with high speed Internet. Addressing a press conference in Mysuru on Monday, K.L. Jairam, Principal General Manager, Mysuru Telecom District, has appealed to councillors to co-operate with BSNL in laying the optical fibre cables and help get residents of Mysuru on the “information super highway”.

Mysuru Telecom District, which has to lay the cables across 700 km in its jurisdiction, currently has the approval to do so for 400 km. However, progress has been delayed on account of various hurdles including opposition by the councillors. BSNL is now providing 300 to 400 Internet connections every month in this manner. It is targeting 1,000 connections per month to meet its deadline.

The availability of high quality bandwidth has helped in e-governance and servicing beneficiaries in their own places, Mr. Jairam said, adding that banking and post office activities in rural areas too had been galvanised owing to the availability of quality and reliable bandwidth through optical fibre cable.