India's first neutral shared RAN solution launched at Mumbai Central railway station

Category : Science and Tech Published on: August 29 2022

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RailTel, a Mini Ratna CPSU of Ministry of Railways and CloudExtel, a known Full Stack Network as a Service (NaaS) Provider have partnered together to launch India’s first shared Radio Access Network (RAN) solution for congested locations with the objective of enhancing telecom users’ experience.
RailTel and CloudExtel carried out the successful pilot of this project in partnership with Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea, Nokia, and the Telecom Infra Project (TIP)’s NaaS Solutions Group, with vital support from the Railways, in one of the most network stressed locations namely Mumbai Central railway station.
The outcomes of the pilot project have been impressive with 5 times increase in average user speed of mobile data from 3 Mbps to 15 Mbps for the mobile phone networks of both Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, while the data consumption jumped up by 20 per cent.
In the initial phase, the focus will be on extending this technology at more Railway Stations in Mumbai.