BharaNet 3.0 to massively boost optical fibre connectivity across villages: Pace Digitek’s Venugopal Rao

Homegrown telecom and energy management solutions company Pace Digitek says that through the government’s ambitious Make in India ambition, the dependency from other countries has drastically decreased, and said that state-funded BharatNet is one of the biggest rural digital connectivity programs worldwide. In an interaction with ETTelecom’s Muntazir Abbas, Pace Digitek Chairman & Managing Director Venugopal Rao Maddisetty speaks on 5G rollout, fibre connectivity, the existing digital divide, the BharatNet program, the impact of US tariffs, overseas expansion, the energy solutions business, and the IPO launch. Edited excerpts.