The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Friday signed an settlement with a telecommunication firm to enhance web connectivity throughout all its corridors, in response to an official assertion.
As a part of this initiative, Beckhaul Digital Technologies personal restricted will lay 700 km of fibre optic cables alongside all metro traces, together with the Airport Line, it mentioned.
DMRC PARTNERS WITH BECKHAUL DIGITAL TO BRING HIGH-SPEED INTERNET ACROSS METRO ROUTES
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has signed an settlement with M/s Beckhaul Digital Technologies Pvt. Ltd. to put in and keep a high-speed Optical Fiber Network in all metro corridors… pic.twitter.com/zh0wzW17EE
— Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (@OfficialDMRC) February 21, 2025
The rollout will occur in phases, with Pink and Magenta Lines being the primary to go dwell, and the remaining anticipated to be prepared within the subsequent six months, the assertion mentioned.
The fibre community will act as a spine for high-speed web, supporting telecom corporations, web service suppliers, knowledge centres, and sensible metropolis initiatives. It can even assist in the graceful rollout of 5G companies throughout Delhi-NCR, it acknowledged.
This initiative helps the federal government of India’s imaginative and prescient for a digitally linked nation, the assertion mentioned.
It will assist telecom corporations ship quicker, extra dependable web whereas permitting DMRC to make higher use of its current infrastructure. With rising demand for high-speed web and 5G enlargement, this challenge will play a key function in making Delhi higher linked and future-ready, it acknowledged.