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Mobile generations, rural broadband, fibre, subsea cables and their landing stations, and the rules of the net. It serves GS3 answers on infrastructure and communications.
Foundation note: The Telecommunications Act, 2023 and how spectrum is assigned
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Cable landing stations
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A cable landing station is where a subsea fibre cable comes ashore and joins the domestic network.
- Almost all traffic between countries travels on subsea cables rather than by satellite.
- A country's few landing points are where its entire international capacity is concentrated.
- Data centres cluster near a landing station, because content stored close to the cable reaches users with the least delay.
What changed
28 Aug 2026BriefMost of the cables on India's east coast are old and nearly full, and instability in West Asia is pushing operators towards routes that avoid it. The India and Southeast Asia (I-2SEA) system is expected to land at Visakhapatnam and be ready for service by late 2029. Andhra Pradesh's data centre buildout came first, and the new cables are following it to the coast. The Hindu, 28 Aug 2026: Andhra set to emerge as third subsea hub following datacentre buildout (opens in a new tab)