{"id":485138,"date":"2022-04-18T17:32:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T12:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=485138"},"modified":"2022-04-18T17:32:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T12:02:45","slug":"sterlite-power-acquires-64-98-stake-in-mtcil-for-fiber-network-in-maharashtra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sterlite-power-acquires-64-98-stake-in-mtcil-for-fiber-network-in-maharashtra\/","title":{"rendered":"Sterlite Power acquires 64.98% stake in MTCIL for fiber network in Maharashtra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sterlite Power has acquired a 64.98% stake in Maharashtra Transmission Communication Infrastructure Limited (MTCIL)- a joint venture between Sterlite Technologies Limited and Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company Limited (MSETCL).<\/p>\n<p>Sterlite Power acquired this equity stake from Sterlite Technologies Limited (STL).<\/p>\n<p>MTCIL is a Public Private Partnership for OPGW (Optical Ground Wire) Fiber networks operating on a boom (build, own, operate and maintain) model.<\/p>\n<p>MTCIL operates a fiber network of 3,162 kms across 35 co-locations, serving telcos, ISPs and data centers, in the state of Maharashtra.<\/p>\n<p>Pratik Agarwal, Managing Director, Sterlite Power, said, \u201cOPGW fiber networks offer a reliable data delivery solution and help leverage the existing power utility infrastructure for telecommunications purposes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sterlite Power intends to replicate the PPP OPGW model in other parts of the country. &#8220;Such large-scale OPGW fiber roll-out is essential to achieve the \u2018Digital India\u2019 vision aimed at transforming the country into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy,\u201d added Agarwal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sterlite Power has acquired a 64.98% stake in Maharashtra Transmission Communication Infrastructure Limited (MTCIL)- a joint venture between Sterlite Technologies Limited and Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company Limited (MSETCL). Sterlite Power acquired this equity stake from Sterlite Technologies Limited (STL). MTCIL is a Public Private Partnership for OPGW (Optical Ground Wire) Fiber networks operating on a boom (build, own, operate and maintain) model. MTCIL operates a fiber network of 3,162 kms across 35 co-locations, serving telcos, ISPs and data centers, in the state of Maharashtra. Pratik Agarwal, Managing Director, Sterlite Power, said, \u201cOPGW fiber networks offer a reliable data delivery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}