Since the Covid-19 epidemic began in 2020, 600 mobile phone towers in Tamil Nadu have mysteriously vanished.
The mobile phone towers were installed by GTL Infrastructure Limited, who claimed they had been stolen even though they had not been monitored since 2017. Meanwhile, 600 of the company’s mobile phone towers went stolen, according to a police investigation.
The mobile phone tower installation company, GTL Infrastructure Limited, has its corporate headquarters in Mumbai and a regional office in Chennai’s Purasavakkam. According to reports, the business installed and maintained 26,000 mobile phone towers in India. More than 6,000 mobile phone towers have been installed and are being maintained in Tamil Nadu alone.
Due to significant losses, the private tower service firm discontinued operations earlier in 2018. As a result, the network service of the mobile phone towers placed around the nation came to an end. The organizations in charge of monitoring it were unable to visit the tower site during the Covid-19 period to do monitoring and maintenance while these mobile towers in Tamil Nadu were not in use.
Officials were recently astonished to hear that a mobile tower in the Erode district had gone missing when they went to investigate the status of mobile phone towers that weren’t working for other network purposes. According to the firm that installed the mobile phone towers, a complaint was made as a result and a case was opened at the police station in the neighbourhood where the tower was situated.
Following assessments in Tamil Nadu on the state of non-functioning mobile phone towers, it was discovered that over 600 towers had gone missing. The victim firm claims that the enigmatic gang specifically took advantage of the Covid-19 closure to seize its unmanned and unsupervised mobile phone towers.
In the end, the corporation said that there are several such towers and that the police should act quickly to stop such robberies in the state. The corporation specifically said that installing a mobile phone tower would cost between Rs 25 lakh and Rs 40 lakh, and that the loss is now expressed in crores.
A Vodafone cellular tower that was installed in the Koodal Pudur neighbourhood of the Madurai district of Tamil Nadu at a cost of Rs 28 lakh is said to have vanished in January of this year in a similar occurrence.
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I think this kind of problem happening is itself an surprise for loss of cell towers and this should be taken up seriously by the government as if there are signal problems or weak signals or no signals it will lead to hardships as mobiles are now a days used in large by people