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title: Bandwidth growing in India
date: "2000-07-26T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 2113
description: I’m tracking India’s massive bandwidth expansion as submarine fiber optic cables open up. With major capacity projects from the DoT, NASSCOM, and Dishnet reaching up to 2.5TB, the country's connectivity bottlenecks look set to disappear by 2001.
keywords: [india, telecommunications, fiber optic, bandwidth, nasscom, submarine cables, dishnet]
---

Looks like India's bandwidth problems will be resolved in a year. With the DoT opening up [submarine fiber optic](http://india.internet.com/news/article/0,1942,1281_393681,00.html), Department of Telecommunication Services is [commissioning](http://www.economictimes.com/today/26infr01.htm) [80GB](http://www.economictimes.com/today/26tech03.htm) (2001). [NASSCOM](http://www.nasscom.org/)'s getting [100GB](http://india.internet.com/news/article/0,1942,1281_367011,00.html) (2003). [Dishnet](http://www.dishnetdsl.com/)'s trying for [2.5TB](http://india.internet.com/news/article/0,1942,1281_407201,00.html) (2001). Wow!