BSNL inks MoU with Fiber Home to manufacture telecom equipment

NEW DELHI: State-owned carrier Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Fiber Home to jointly start manufacturing telecom equipment and optical fiber cable in BSNL factories.

Fiber Home India has decided to heavily invest in India with BSNL, according to an official statement, but the companies did not divulge the quantum of investment.

The agreement between two companies is expected to bring telecom manufacturing technology and expertise to India, which will help India set up manufacturing base at low cost, and even aid BSNL-Fiber Home to export telecom equipment to the Asia-Pacific region in a short time.


“This agreement will help India to get high quality telecom equipment at areasonable cost and will also reduce deployment time. BSNL always tried hard to fulfill government dreams by adopting workable and practical program like this,” said Anupam Shrivastava, CMD, BSNL.

Fibre Home, which is the parent company of Fiber Home India, has one of the largest telecom manufacturing bases in China. It manufactures equipment for transport layer and access layer of telecom network. BSNL has seven telecom factories with a large manpower of around 1,600 employees, which make several customer end equipment and testing tools for internal consumption of BSNL.