Sterlite Tech bags Rs. 2,500 cr BSNL order.

Sterlite Technologies, a Vedanta group company, has secured orders worth Rs. 2,500 crore from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) for deployment of optical fibre cable (OFC) network.

The company has won a deal to supply OFC for BSNL's Jammu & Kashmir region and other parts of the country.

Under the Rs. 1,950-crore order, the company will deploy and maintain a part of Network for Spectrum (NFS) project in J&K, it said in a statement.

Under this contract, to be executed by 2016, Sterlite Technologies will also build a new communication network for the Armed Forces. The network comprises a highly-resilient OFC-based nationwide optical backbone for Defence sites and access networks at Army sites, the company said.

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