Airtel Bangladesh on Monday announced that its parent company, India’s Bharti Airtel, had established stronger network from Paschimbanga of India to
Benapole of Jessore through a terrestrial optical fibre cable.
The cable will offer better connectivity to enterprise and carrier customers for transiting traffic between Bangladesh and key business hubs like Singapore, London, Chennai, Mumbai and Los Angeles via India through Airtel network, said the company in a news release.
The cable is further interconnected with the fibre backbone constructed from the Benapole border to Dhaka by the International Terrestrial Cable licensees in the region, it said.
Airtel Bangladesh chief executive officer Chris Tobit said, ‘This commencement of terrestrial optical fibre connection between India and Bangladesh will be a key catalyst for
Bangladesh’s future growth in telecommunication. This will enable Bangladesh to connect to the rest of the world with improved voice quality and high speed data.’
Airtel’s India network spans across 171,610Rkms of optical fibre while its global network spans across 225,000Rkms covering 50 countries and five continents. This network includes Bharti’s i2i submarine cable connecting Chennai to Singapore, consortium cables like SMW4, the release said.
-With New Age input
