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NEW DELHI: Lack of mobile web sum connected road and expressway stretches is not lone causing inconvenience to commuters but is besides a interest for NHAI arsenic cellular connectivity gaps impact exigency connection to responders - specified arsenic ambulance services and patrol vehicles - successful lawsuit of an incident.Flagging this, NHAI has urged telecom regulator TRAI to nonstop operators to amended mobile web connectivity connected these sections. The authorization has identified 424 specified "telecom achromatic spots" covering astir 1,750km and has shared this with TRAI.TOI has learnt that NHAI president Satosh Kumar Yadav, successful a missive to TRAI president Anil Kumar Lahoti, pointed retired that nary mobile web is adversely impacting road operations, coordination with tract units and enforcement agencies.Officials said missing mobile web is much prevalent connected greenfield highways and expressways, and distant sections, including stretches of Delhi-Mumbai and Bengaluru-Chennai expressways. For instance, information shared with TRAI mentions however 3 stretches of Delhi-Mumbai expressway passing done Ratlam (approx 69km) has nary mobile network. Similarly, the full 51km agelong betwixt Harda and Betul successful Madhya Pradesh has nary network.
The database of missing mobile networks see astir 15km of Bengaluru-Chennai expressway, 17km of Tambaram-Tindivanam conception successful TN, 11.8km of Warangal-Khammam conception successful Andhra, 10.8km of Mumbai-Vadodara expressway successful Thane.NHAI has besides identified astir 1,665 accident-prone locations owed to stray cattle question crossed NHs and expressways. Officials said it has besides taken up this with TRAI and projected proactive SMS and flash SMS alerts astatine geo-mapped accident-prone zones, including stretches affected by stray cattle question and different hazards."Alerts are intended to scope users astir 15 minutes successful beforehand arsenic they attack specified locations. NHAI has urged TRAI to contented directions to telecom operators to facilitate these alerts escaped of cost, purely successful the involvement of roadworthy idiosyncratic safety. This volition prevention respective lives," said an official.
