The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has identified
five representatives of service providers, who are conversant with cable
systems to sit with GHMC officials and fine-tune the cross section of
the proposed power and communication cable duct with regard to its size,
shape, number of cables etc.

A meeting was held at GHMC on
Saturday on Common Cable Ducting along with the stakeholders and the
members of the committee for examining the technical feasibility, cost
and design of the duct.

About 26 representatives from different
service providers like  Vodafone, Tata, Idea, Aircel, Fibertel,
Digicable and Siticable attended the meeting. Commissioner, MT Krishna
Babu explained about the proposed duct for carrying power and
communication cables and the need to locate them on the road.

It
also decided to send a team of officials, along with representatives of
the Federation of Aerial Cable Operators, to visit Chennai, Calcutta etc
and finalise the construction of the proposed duct.