{"id":1005220,"date":"2026-04-28T08:52:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005220"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:07:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:37:47","slug":"mmrcl-gets-no-bids-for-underground-mumbai-metro-3-telecom-infra-to-seek-government-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/28\/mmrcl-gets-no-bids-for-underground-mumbai-metro-3-telecom-infra-to-seek-government-guidance\/","title":{"rendered":"MMRCL gets no bids for underground Mumbai Metro 3 telecom infra; to seek government guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL) has not received any bids for the telecom infrastructure contract on the underground Metro 3 Aqua Line, leaving the project without a clear near-term solution for ensuring seamless mobile connectivity inside tunnels and stations. <\/p>\n<p>The request for proposal, floated on March 13, 2023, to appoint a neutral in-building solution (IBS) provider, failed to attract bidders despite the project&#8217;s scale and importance. The contract is meant to enable uninterrupted mobile network coverage across the 33.5km fully underground corridor with 26 underground and one at-grade station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL) has not received any bids for the telecom infrastructure contract on the underground Metro 3 Aqua Line, leaving the project without a clear near-term solution for ensuring seamless mobile connectivity inside tunnels and stations. The request for proposal, floated on March 13, 2023, to appoint a neutral in-building solution (IBS) provider, failed to attract bidders despite the project&#8217;s scale and importance. The contract is meant to enable uninterrupted mobile network coverage across the 33.5km fully underground corridor with 26 underground and one at-grade station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}