Nobody told me first, nor did I know there could be [an artificial] scarcity. I thought the materials would have began flowing from Bengaluru. When the splicer came, he said he installed splitter in their office, which he showed me later, and pigtail cable. In the beginning I retaliated saying I should have informed about it earlier. After a minute, I remembered that the local JTO once humbly said "You're the first FTTH customer here, so we don't have much details." and agreed to pay ₹300--and paid.