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.