The BSNL a govt undertaking has outsourced the optical fibre cable (OFC) network to private agencies and self-operating billing agents, leaving the customers at their whims. Many of these agents are themselves service providers of high-speed and cable networks of other brands and are not very keen to promote BSNL.
These cable operators have been given a free hand to make use of electric poles indiscriminately and haphazardly to draw overhead lines. Since the overhead line arrangement was not systematic, it was replaced long ago with underground cables dispensing with telephone poles. Now we are returning to the same era in a worse way with a temporary network and jungle of loose hanging wires all over with bundles/coils on almost every electric pole.
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The situation becomes even worse when private providers also use the same poles. This is as good as a temporary system, no safety for these wires as they are prone to weather, theft and damage by miscreants, etc. and above all at the mercy of the Electricity Dept who so far has not objected to the use of its poles.
The OFC is the need of present day technology and it is high time the authorities concerned take prompt action to clear this whole mess and make arrangements to provide a safe, proper and permanent network system.
