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A common optic fibre cable corridor in Chennai, internet prices to become cheaper
Posted on: 02/May/2019 9:55:56 AM
The news that has come out now is under the public- private partnership mode, Chennai corporation has begun work on a proposal to develop a common optic fibre cable corridor along the roads in all the parts of Chennai city. A meeting took place on Tuesday, 30th April between the officials belonging to Chennai Corporation, officials of Chennai Smart city Limited and with some representatives belonging to private companies. There were some discussions about developing a common corridor for the network of fibre optic cables.
It has been pointed out by the Corporation commissioner, Mr. G. Prakash that the proposal involved the development of a city-wide optical cable network corridor that would be operated and maintained by private sector. The main advantages of this are there would be better communication security in all the areas plus the network would be wider. It is worthy to note that the internet prices would become cheaper and people of Chennai would be highly benefited.
An official spoke about how at present the optical fibre network is just 30% in the Chennai city and how to develop the corridor track rent database is being studied. He hinted that there would not be any digging of the roads for laying the cables after the development of the corridor. For laying cables, common duct would be utilized by the telecom service operators. The official finally spoke about how the Chennai Smart City officials have studied models in cities like Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad and how a better model would be got.
It is important to mention that the common corridor for the fibre optical cable network is expected to promote the smart city mission projects such as command and control centre, reduce inconvenience to the residents plus reduce the time to roll out digital services, cut the cost to the operators by enabling growth of the digital services. Other important benefits are this common optic fibre cable corridor would lead to an improvement in the quality of service and create infrastructure for 5-G. It must be noted that the optical fibre cable has core and cladding layer selected for total internal reflection.
