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Cellphone service coming to TTC subway platforms by 2014

Toronto commuters have been frustrated for years for the lack of cell service on subways. This service has been promised for a long time and it looks like the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) will be making an official announcement on Wednesday.

The RFP was originally?between 3 organizations, Bell Mobility, Chicago-based Extenet Systems, and Broadcast Australia Pty Ltd. (BA). According to a proposal on the TTC?s website it looks like they are putting for the approval to partner up with BA:

?Authorize the award of a contract to Broadcast Australia Pty Ltd. (BA), for the Wireless Network in the Subway System project, for a fixed fee payable to the TTC in the amount of Twenty Five Million Dollars ($25,000,000.00) over a twenty (20) year term. In addition, BA will pay the TTC an additional $8,000.00 (plus applicable taxes) for design review cost, per TTC existing and planned sixty one (61) underground subway stations.?

In addition to this news there?ll be a new TTC position created called ?Project Manager, Wireless Communications? who?s sole responsibility will be to oversee and manage the project. As for the completion dates, sometime in 2014, but riders will only be able to use their device (talk/text/data) on subway platform, not inside the trains. In the meantime BA, if approved, will conduct beta testing at a couple subway stations.

Finally, the TTC submission indicates that BA will only have to provide 60% of Toronto wireless subscribers service, not all subs. So there possibly might be some heavy fees for some riders to access the service: ?The successful proponent shall be deemed to have sufficient wireless carriers contracted if it has contracted with a wireless carrier or wireless carriers that have at least 60% of the wireless subscribers within the City of Toronto.?

Source: TTC
Via: TheStar

Related posts:

1. Update on the TTC subway cellphone service: ?We?re hopeful that we can share some news later this fall?
2. TTC says they expect to award subway cellphone service contract in December
3. Toronto subway cell service to be available mid-2012?
4. Montreal to have cell service in subways by the end of 2013

Source: http://mobilesyrup.com/2012/10/22/cellphone-service-coming-to-ttc-subway-platforms-by-2014/

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