Telecom company Bharti Airtel on Thursday announced the launch of its Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) broadband service – Airtel Xstream Fiber - in Ladakh and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
By 2025, Airtel Xstream Fiber plans to scale its footprint to 2000 towns, according to a statement by the company.
“Airtel Xstream Fiber expands FTTH network to India’s farthest corners... Launches high-speed broadband services in Ladakh and Andaman and Nicobar Islands,†the company said.
Airtel said it has become the first private ISP to roll-out FTTH broadband in these remote geographies and bring quality digital access to customers by connecting them to the data superhighway.
Airtel Xstream Fiber’s high-speed broadband is available to customers in Leh in Ladakh, and Port Blair in Andaman & Nicobar
Islands.
The company plans to scale the service to other key locations in the regions in the coming months.
The post pandemic era has led to a surge in demand for high-speed broadband in homes, especially for work from home, online learning as well as online entertainment, Vir Inder Nath, CEO – Broadband business, Bharti Airtel noted.
