Messari Research •
February 10, 2026 at 15:21 •
Analysis
India has widespread internet usage, but fixed broadband penetration remains below 5%, leaving households, schools, and small businesses without reliable connectivity. Centralized telecom expansion has prioritized high-return urban clusters, producing uneven coverage and persistent service quality issues, particularly in peri-urban and underserved regions. As AI adoption accelerates across the economy, demand is shifting toward sustained, low-latency connectivity that mobile networks struggle to support. Dabba Network addresses this gap through a decentralized execution model that aggregates Local Cable Operators to deploy and maintain last-mile infrastructure. In one year, the network scaled to 100,000 deployed hotspots, 500,000 daily active users, and $600,000 in m...
