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Gautrain gets mobile connectivity

Staff Writer
By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 01 Jul 2015
The rollout is the first phase of a broader project for the installation of additional technical infrastructure, extending across the entire Gautrain reserve.
The rollout is the first phase of a broader project for the installation of additional technical infrastructure, extending across the entire Gautrain reserve.

Gautrain commuters will now be able to make use of their mobile phones and other mobile devices to make phone calls and connect to the Internet, underground at the Sandton, Park and Rosebank stations.

The Strategic Partners Group (SPG) - empowerment partner of the Bombela Concession Company that operates the Gautrain - says it has completed its work on the creation of a technological environment that enables mobile communications at the three stations.

"Making these facilities available represents the first phase of a much broader engineering project which will see the installation of additional technical infrastructure that will extend across the entire Gautrain reserve," says the group.

SPG executive chairperson Mzolisi Diliza says phase one of the project, undertaken with the Gautrain Management Agency, the Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport, the Bombela Concession Company, Vodacom and MTN, is an important addition to Gautrain services.

"Completion of this initial part of the assignment, which needed to be executed in a highly complex technical and operational environment, is a notable milestone for SPG.

"We continue to engage with our partners to expedite the strategic and operational imperatives that are needed to bring finalisation to an exercise that ultimately will give all Gautrain commuters, wherever they find themselves on the system, seamless connectivity to the outside world."

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