{"id":999000,"date":"2026-03-23T10:26:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999000"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:13:06","slug":"metro-3-faces-mobile-blackout-as-telecom-infra-contract-scrapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/23\/metro-3-faces-mobile-blackout-as-telecom-infra-contract-scrapped\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro-3 faces mobile blackout as telecom infra contract scrapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Metro-3 passengers in certain sections began losing even the patchy mobile network available on the underground corridor on Friday after Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL) terminated the contract of a third-party company that set up the existing telecom infrastructure across all underground stations and tunnels of the line. It will float a fresh tender to appoint a new service provider. <\/p>\n<p>The contractor was not able to fulfil contractual obligations, said an MMRCL spokesperson. She said efforts are underway to restore seamless mobile connectivity across the corridor at the earliest but did not specify a timeline for full resumption of services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Metro-3 passengers in certain sections began losing even the patchy mobile network available on the underground corridor on Friday after Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL) terminated the contract of a third-party company that set up the existing telecom infrastructure across all underground stations and tunnels of the line. It will float a fresh tender to appoint a new service provider. The contractor was not able to fulfil contractual obligations, said an MMRCL spokesperson. She said efforts are underway to restore seamless mobile connectivity across the corridor at the earliest but did not specify a timeline for full resumption [&hellip;]<\/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-999000","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\/999000","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=999000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}