OFC & Telecom Route GPR Survey in Hyderabad

Rates and page checked: 23 October 2026

Why run a telecom cable route survey in Hyderabad before laying fibre?

On most Hyderabad roads, a new duct is joining ground that power, water and older telecom lines claimed years ago. A telecom cable route survey in Hyderabad shows that space before the duct crew starts. Radar lines along the alignment, backed by an EM locator, pick up:

• HDPE ducts and armoured cables already laid by other operators;
• LT and HT power cables in the same verge or footpath;
• water mains, sewers and storm drains close to the planned depth;
• handholes, chambers and joint pits that the new route must pass around.

The output tells the planner where the planned line runs clear, where it needs a small shift and where crowding is bad enough to justify switching sides of the carriageway. That decision costs nothing on paper and a great deal once a trench is open. The method behind it is described in full under our OFC route GPR survey service.

Where do Hyderabad fibre alignments get crowded?

Demand for connectivity is spread unevenly across the city, and so is congestion below the footpath.

• IT and office corridors. Around HITEC City and Gachibowli, several operators have laid ducts along the same approach roads, so a new alignment often runs between existing ones with little margin.
• Metro roads. Where the Hyderabad Metro runs overhead, services were moved during construction and records may lag behind the ground.
• Old-city lanes. Narrow streets leave little width for any new duct, and older services are poorly documented.
• Outer Ring Road and its service roads. Long open stretches favour fast progress, though crossings at interchanges still need closer scanning.
• Musi and nala crossings. Ducts converge on bridges and culvert approaches, where clearance to power cables is often tight.

Granite outcrops add another layer: where rock rises close to the surface, both trench depth and bore planning change. For the broader city picture, see our Hyderabad GPR survey page.

Can radar find another operator's empty HDPE duct?

Often, but not always. An empty or fibre-filled HDPE duct contains no metal, so an EM locator cannot follow it unless it has a tracer wire or a metallic cable inside. Radar can still detect it, because the air or fibre inside the duct reflects differently from the soil around it. How reliably depends on:

• duct diameter – larger ducts and duct banks show up more clearly;
• depth and soil – wet clay weakens the signal, dry sandy ground helps;
• what lies nearby – a duct sitting tight against a power cable can merge into one trace.

Surface clues such as marker posts, handhole covers and route stones help us tie a radar trace to an operator's route. Where a find cannot be attributed, it is reported as an unidentified duct, not guessed. Duct detection is covered at more length in GPR scanning for OFC routing.

When does a fibre route need a trenchless utility survey?

Boring is the usual answer where open cutting is not allowed or not practical: under main roads and junctions, below metro-side carriageways, across nalas and at Musi crossings. A trenchless utility survey in Hyderabad focuses on the bore itself:

1. the planned bore path is scanned along its full length, with cross-lines at intervals;
2. entry and exit pit areas are covered on both sides, as far as access allows;
3. every service within the likely drilling zone is flagged with its approximate depth;
4. signs of shallow rock are noted, because granite changes the tooling a bore needs.

Where rock depth or a critical service depth must be proved before drilling, a trial pit or borehole can be ordered at that point. Our HDD route survey services cover the method, and the HDD page explains what the drilling team does with the scanned path; Mezux owns 18 HDD rigs alongside its 58 GPR systems.

What does the fibre team get after the survey?

Two items come as standard. First, marks on the ground along the alignment, coloured by utility and with approximate depths, so the duct or HDD crew can see conflicts on site. Second, a signed report listing every detected service against the route chainage, how deep the radar saw on every section, and any length left unscanned, with the reason. Ordering the ₹32 per metre version adds an L-section depth profile. Route drawings in CAD or GIS, often wanted for a telecom infrastructure survey in Hyderabad that feeds an asset record, are prepared as a separately priced set.

How is an OFC route survey in Hyderabad priced?

Fibre routes follow the same metre-based card as every other survey. A standard scan of the alignment costs ₹24 a metre; asking for an L-section raises it to ₹32. As Hyderabad is outside Delhi NCR, a short link is billed as if it were 4 km long, and no project is invoiced below ₹1,00,000. GST is charged separately.

Volume pricing is applied to the full order: once it exceeds 100 km a quarter comes off, past 500 km 40%, and past 1,000 km half, so a bigger order can cost less overall than a smaller one just under a slab. The quote keeps four things apart from the metre rate – crew travel from Faridabad, night shifts on busy roads, traffic control or road permits, and any CAD/GIS set. Every slab appears on our GPR survey price list.

Are you linked with any operator or local authority?

No. Mezux Touch is an independent survey contractor with no affiliation to GHMC, TGSPDCL, the Hyderabad Metro, any development authority or any telecom operator. Operators, tower and fibre infrastructure firms and EPC contractors hire us directly, and the findings belong to them.