Strange but true, Power Grid Corporation of India received the licence for telecom services in India. They are mainly in the business of power transmission till now. Power Grid has been granted the license for national long distance and Internet service provider (ISP)
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The licence granted for Power Grid will be valid for Twenty years. Power Grid Corporation in a statement filling at stock exchange SEBI stated that " The Department of Telecommunication has granted a unified licence to PowerGrid with national long distance (NLD) and Internet service provider-Category A service authorization for providing telecom services. The licence is valid for 20 years”.
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Power Grid licence is the single unified license. Company already having their own optical fibre network through overhead cables using its huge network of power transmission infrastructure across the country.
Power Grid has operations all over the country with the transmission network covering roughly 134,018 KM long circuit along with 214 extra high voltage power stations.