Performing on a grievance from Airtel and others, the native Telecom officers wrote a letter to Sunita Chandra, Director-Normal Telecom, Division of Telecom
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Telecom main Airtel has flagged the problem of fiber chopping in Hyderabad to the Telecommunication Division, searching for its intervention to resolve the problem, even because the Mobile Operators Affiliation of India (COAI) alleged that the indiscriminate chopping of fiber throughout Hyderabad by the Telangana energy utility continues unabated.
Performing on a grievance from Airtel and others, the native Telecom officers wrote a letter to Sunita Chandra, Director-Normal Telecom, Division of Telecom, explaining to her the disruptions being induced to telecom and Web providers in Hyderabad.
“We kindly request your workplace to handle this matter with the Secretary (Telecom) for instant intervention with the Authorities of Telangana,” the letter stated.
“The Telangana Authorities has determined to take away the dangling wires from all the electrical poles, following the electrocution incident that resulted within the dying of 5 individuals throughout a (non secular) procession,” the letter stated.
After receiving representations from Airtel and different stakeholders, the native Telecom officers had taken up the problem with the Particular Chief Secretary (Data Expertise, Electronics and Communication), Govt of Telangana,” he stated.
He stated the division requested the State Authorities to offer enough time to telecom service suppliers to take away the cables from the electrical poles.
COAI condemnation
In the meantime, the COAI strongly condemned the continued and illegal fiber cuts being carried out by the TGSPDCL (Telangana State Southern Energy Distribution Firm Ltd) personnel in numerous elements of town.
“These acts persist in defiance of the Excessive Courtroom’s ruling on August 22. The ruling restrained such harmful measures,” SP Kochhar, Director Normal, COAI, has stated in a press release right here on Tuesday.
“This severing of telecom fiber has led to widespread disruption of important web providers. Over the previous couple of days, this has worsened the state of affairs and is affecting essential connectivity in each city and rural areas,” he stated.
Revealed on August 26, 2025
