Telco group bats for flexible subsea cable repair mechanism

NEW DELHI: Telecom carriers – Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea – represented by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), said that the Centre should look at facilitating subsea cable repair as a part of ease of doing business to ensure seamless data latency.

“The undersea cable repair process is complex. There should be an ease of doing business. Every time a vessel goes for a repair, the officials from the Ministry of Defense and the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) go along. We are asking for a relaxation,” SP Kochhar, director general, COAI, told ETTelecom.