A month after the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) locked horns with telecom and internet service providers over laying of data cables in Bengaluru, the state government is working on a new policy to help all stakeholders. 

The civic body, with the help of the police, had removed overhead cables on the Outer Ring Road stretch — which has numerous IT companies — deeming them to be illegal. This had affected data connectivity in the IT hub of Whitefield. 

The new policy wiill recognise overhead cable, which so far is banned in BBMP limits, as an option before service providers. The work on drafting the policy started following a meeting of the urban development department (UDD) in the first week of May to address issues related to optical fibre cable (OFC).