This is undoubtedly very good news for the more than 5,5 million users who need to take the subway daily in Mexico City, and it is that although it is true that the coverage to make calls or have access to coverage for data is something that is usually complicated in the metro lines of any city, In most cases, the operators are in charge of reversing these situations Through agreements with city councils and the transport company itself, and in the case of Mexico, the AT&T operator will be in charge of starting this ambitious project to "attract customers" thanks to its services in the metro and outside of it.
For now there is no need to rush and it is a long-term project that requires a large infrastructure, so at first we are talking about a duration of the works and installation of approximately three years to cover all the metro network. In this case the first of the phases will start now and will end this year on lines 1,3 and 7 of the metro, these three lines would be the most used according to the study carried out with about 700 thousand daily users in each of them.
In this case AT&T explain that of the 12 metro lines they have in CDM 11 will have WiFi when the project ends and full coverage in the 4G LTE data network in all of them. Most large cities have agreements with operators to supply users with data networks and even WiFi, but we already know that free WiFi -at least in Spain- is a bit scarce of everything, so the best thing is have network coverage available with our operator.