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A portable cellular tower, similar to the one installed during the U-17 Fifa World Cup in 2017, will now be installed at a much bigger scale at the Kolkata Book Fair and the Gangasagar Mela. At a meeting to discuss how to tackle the problem of mobile tower congestion and call drops at heavily crowded places, IT department officials, several cellphone operators, and tower infrastructure providers came to this decision.
Cell on Wheels (CoW) is a movable cellular network provider that provides the network in places that have low signals. Such a CoW will be installed at the Book Fair and the Gangasagar Mela to prevent call drops. Network congestion occurs due to continuous cell traffic at crowded places, which also leads to call drops. CoWs were earlier installed at Salt Lake stadium and at Eco Park during the U-17 Fifa World Cup in 2017.
Bidhannagar police have been asked to help the tower company install the CoW at the book fair. For Gangasagar Mela, the South 24 Parganas district administration will work with the tower company and mobile service providers on the issue. A trial will be conducted by each cell operator in which additional equipment will be installed on the existing poles on the CoW if required.
