MONTREAL – Half of Montreal’s metro is now plugged into an LTE mobile network, and the project is proceeding on schedule, according to the Société de transport de Montréal (STM).
With 34 out of 68 stations now connected, passengers have complete mobile connectivity between the Côte-Vertu and Mont-Royal stations on the orange line, between Beaudry and Lionel-Groulx on the green line, between Snowdon and Acadie on the blue line, and on the entire yellow line.
Deployment efforts for the second half of 2017 will be concentrated on stations to the north of Mont-Royal and will complete the blue line up to Jean-Talon. Work will be done to connect the orange line stations north of Jean-Talon in 2018, continues the STM.
The project, first announced in September 2013, will take five to seven years to fully complete, and make Montreal one of only a handful of cities in the world where the underground subway is equipped with a 4G LTE mobile network. The $50 million investment is being shared equally among Telus (acting as the project integrator), Bell, Rogers and Vidéotron.
