India, March 27 -- More underwater cables are needed to carry the majority of global telecom and Internet traffic to and from India, according to analysts.

Referring to India's insufficient submarine (or subsea) cable capacity to meet its digital ambitions, Anil Kumar Lahoti, chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), stated that the country "has to do much more" to develop a robust subsea cable system.Lahoti reiterated that, as against smaller countries such as Singapore, which has 26 subsea cables landed at three landing points, India has only 1% of the world's subsea cable landing facilities. He emphasized the need for formulating a "strategic, security conscious, and innovation driven approach" to improve and expan...