New Delhi, March 10 -- Energy supply disruptions linked to the ongoing conflict in West Asia are beginning to affect India's telecom sector, prompting the tower and telecom operators to seek urgent government intervention.

The Digital Infrastructure Providers Association (DIPA), which represents telecom infrastructure providers such as Indus Towers, Ascend Telecom Infrastructure and other telecom operators, has written to the government seeking priority electricity supply for mobile tower sites and an exemption for telecom tower manufacturing units from a recent order restricting liquified petroleum gas (LPG) supply.

"We have been informed by major tower manufacturing partners that LPG supplies to them from all oil marketing companies h...