No more dangling wires on city roads: GHMC

The GHMC has issued an ultimatum to all cable and telephone operators to remove their hanging cable wires from the twin cities in a week. After the deadline, the Electrical wing will swing into action  and remove the wires dangling from electric poles.

Speaking to Express, GHMC officials said they held a series of meetings with telecom service providers, cable operators and ISP and gave ultimatum that cable hanging will no more be tolerated.

The companies which have extensive overhead cables are Tata Communications Ltd, Tata Teleservices Ltd, Airtel, Idea Cellular, Vodafone, Aircel, Uninor, MTS, BSNL, Reliance Telecom, Videocon, Beam Telecom, Tikona, You Broadband, Hathaway, RVR Infra, DG Cables, In Cable, Vision Broadband, 3G Telecom, Sify and Tulip Telecom. They have requested the GHMC to give some more time for shifting wires. But it seems the GHMC wants them removed as soon as possible.

The body wanted operators to lay their cables by having common duct system. It had requested operators to establish a consortium through which they can have common duct systems and share their cables. This would have been cost-effective and beneficial to companies as well to the GHMC as road-cutting would be avoided to a large extent.