Walk around Mylapore these days and you’ll see a thread like mark in a lot of roads — that’s where Bharti (?) has been laying fiber as part of their broadband push. So far the two buildings in CIT Colony which have the fiber going into them have been a private residence (lucky so-and-so’s, which I was rich enough, etc
) and the NDTV office. We‘re still on old-fashioned leased lines :'-(