{"id":1027547,"date":"2026-08-10T07:27:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T01:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027547"},"modified":"2026-08-10T07:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T02:02:15","slug":"kptcl-to-commercialise-surplus-dark-fibre-expects-%e2%82%b9130-crore-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/10\/kptcl-to-commercialise-surplus-dark-fibre-expects-%e2%82%b9130-crore-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"KPTCL to commercialise surplus dark fibre, expects \u20b9130 crore revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: The KPTCL has taken a significant step towards strengthening the state&#8217;s digital infrastructure by commercialising surplus &#8216;dark fibre&#8217; on its 6,119-km optical ground wire network, officials said on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>The initiative is expected to generate substantial long-term revenue for the corporation while supporting the expansion of Karnataka&#8217;s digital connectivity ecosystem, they said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Dark fibre&#8217; refers to unused, unlit optical fibre in Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited&#8217;s existing network that is not currently carrying data, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: The KPTCL has taken a significant step towards strengthening the state&#8217;s digital infrastructure by commercialising surplus &#8216;dark fibre&#8217; on its 6,119-km optical ground wire network, officials said on Saturday. The initiative is expected to generate substantial long-term revenue for the corporation while supporting the expansion of Karnataka&#8217;s digital connectivity ecosystem, they said. &#8216;Dark fibre&#8217; refers to unused, unlit optical fibre in Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited&#8217;s existing network that is not currently carrying data, officials said.<\/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-1027547","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\/1027547","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=1027547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027562,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027547\/revisions\/1027562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}