Sri Lanka plans fiber optic cable network using railway reserves

The Sri Lanka government has decided to call for tenders to set up a fiber optic cable network running along the country's railway tracks. The goal is to build a mass media cable network covering a large part of the country.

This was disclosed at the weekly media briefing on Cabinet decisions, held in Colombo yesterday evening.

The government said the decision was taken considering the requests made by several media technological institutions to set up a fiber optic cable network to cover the country’s main towns. Media Minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa said a preliminary study on the project’s viability has been done with the assistance of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission.

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