Overview
- Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu held a review meeting on Tuesday, June 30, and directed telecom operators to speed up installation of 2,310 additional cell towers to improve coverage.
- Officials told the meeting that Andhra Pradesh currently has 30,694 cell towers and that the government has set a target window of 100 days for the proposed tower installations.
- Kuppam Assembly constituency has been named a pilot for full mobile coverage and the government asked officials to map remaining geographically uncovered locations for operators.
- The state reviewed plans to expand fibre in Amaravati, noting an existing 169,638 km fibre network and about 2.867 million broadband connections, and pledged household fibre without repeated road excavations.
- Naidu urged telcos and the Department of Telecommunications to partner on digital‑literacy work to boost use of Mana Mitra and Sanjeevani services and to prepare citizens for planned AI services, while implementation and operator action remain the next critical steps.