New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated the submarine optical fibre cable connecting Chennai and Port Blair, via video conferencing.
Big day for Andaman and Nicobar Islands! Watch. https://t.co/lNwI6KSEOj
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 10, 2020
The submarine cable will also connect Port Blair to Swaraj Dweep (Havelock), Little Andaman, Car Nicobar, Kamorta, Great Nicobar, Long Island, and Rangat. This connectivity will enable delivery of faster and more reliable mobile and landline telecom services to Andaman & Nicobar Islands, at par with other parts of India.
The foundation stone for this project was laid by the Prime Minister on 30th December 2018 at Port Blair.
The submarine OFC link will deliver bandwidth of 2 x 200 Gigabits per second (Gbps) between Chennai and Port Blair, and 2 x 100 Gbps between Port Blair and the other islands. Provision of reliable, robust, and high-speed telecom and Broadband facilities in these Islands will be a landmark achievement from the viewpoint of consumers, as well as for strategic and governance reasons. 4G mobile services, which were constrained due to limited backhaul bandwidth provided via satellite will also see a major improvement.
