Tata Communications plans $400–450 million for about 10,000 km of new fibre. Phase one targets Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai.

The big change

  • What changed: Tata has proposed domestic links between AI hubs, ultimately connected to its global backbone.
  • Why it matters: The plan addresses traffic between data centres as AI capacity grows.
  • What to watch: Later phases name Vizag, Bhubaneswar, Jamnagar and GIFT City. Delivered capacity remains unreported.

A network still planned

Tata describes three phases but gives no completion date or measured latency for the new routes. Existing national and metro networks will expand meanwhile.

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