{"id":1016241,"date":"2026-06-23T07:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016241"},"modified":"2026-06-23T07:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:26:55","slug":"ofc-router-price-hike-makes-bsnls-bharatnet-unviable-vendors-seek-force-majeure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/23\/ofc-router-price-hike-makes-bsnls-bharatnet-unviable-vendors-seek-force-majeure\/","title":{"rendered":"OFC, router price hike makes BSNL&#8217;s BharatNet unviable; vendors seek &#8216;force majeure&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Even as the West Asia crisis seems set to pause, the ballooning cost of optical fibre cable (OFC) and routers has forced vendors to seek force majeure from the telecom department (DoT) as the final phase of Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s ambitious initiative to offer digital connectivity to more than 6 lakh villages kicks off. <\/p>\n<p>BharatNet Phase III, a state-funded \u20b965,000 crore middle-mile network approved by the Cabinet in August 2023, is set to face disruptions due to the inflated cost of fibre cable and Internet Protocol Multi-Protocol Label Switching (IP-MPLS) routers amid supply chain constraints caused by the West Asia crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Even as the West Asia crisis seems set to pause, the ballooning cost of optical fibre cable (OFC) and routers has forced vendors to seek force majeure from the telecom department (DoT) as the final phase of Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s ambitious initiative to offer digital connectivity to more than 6 lakh villages kicks off. BharatNet Phase III, a state-funded \u20b965,000 crore middle-mile network approved by the Cabinet in August 2023, is set to face disruptions due to the inflated cost of fibre cable and Internet Protocol Multi-Protocol Label Switching (IP-MPLS) routers amid supply chain constraints caused by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016256,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016241\/revisions\/1016256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}