MTNL official service provider for Commonwealth Games 2010

In a bid to provide a robust, effective and failure-proof system of telecommunication during Commonwealth games the Indian government has appointed state-run Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd as the official telecom provider for the Commonwealth Games and sanctioned Rs 182 crores for setting up the necessary communication facilities. With this support, MTNL will establish an exclusive and dedicated telecommunication network inclusive of supply, installation, testing, commissioning, operation and maintenance, and providing professional services.

“The main objective of this project is to provide a robust, effective and fail-proof system of telecommunication. This system will cater to the requirement of transmission of games data, security data, high definition (HDTV) broadcast signal etc. between sports venues, international broadcasting centre, main press centre, master control facilities etc,” said a press statement.

MTNL has planned a network with multiple redundancy using high capacity Internet protocol / multi protocol label switching (IP / MPLS) technology. MTNL would also provide dark fibre along with IP/MPLS at no cost to the Government.