Telecom engineers and fibre specialists atVedanta Group company Sterlite Technologies are finalising the 'proof of concept' of a close variant of the 'Google Fibre' project to transform the urban home broadband experience in India's top 20 cities and, in turn, boost high-speed internet penetration.
But unlike the US search giant, which will directly take its ultrafast fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) drive across US cities, Sterlite will deliver super-fast fibre broadband connectivity at 20 to 50 Mbps speeds to urban homes through partner mobile operators.
"We will shortly showcase our FTTH broadband technology blueprint to Bharti Airtel and Tata Teleservices to line up the first wave of partnerships," Sterlite Technologies CEO Anand Agarwal told ET. The company is initially looking to hook up a million homes by 2016 across Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Chennai.
Google Fibre clone: How Sterlite plans to provide high speed internet in 20 cities - Economic Times