RailTel Corporation of India Limited has signed a tripartite memorandum of understanding (MoU) with InoviTel (PTY) LTD, and Tsiko Africa Energy and Infrastructure for Tsiko Group.
It aims to cooperate and collaborate on projects to bring Indian technology, innovation and products to South Africa and the adjoining region and explore opportunities in telecom, railways and other information technology (IT)/ information and communications technology (ICT) businesses in South Africa.
The scope of this MoU covers activation and commercialisation of dark fibre along the railway lines and high voltage transmission lines in South Africa. It also covers railway signal and telecommunication solutions, digital twin modelling of railway assets for predictive maintenance and traffic simulation, optical fibre cable (OFC)-based distributed acoustic system (DAS), etc. for public and private rail operators within South Africa, connectivity solution to railway and private business fibre network operators, IT/ICT/digitalisation solutions for digital transformation of South Africa.
