India, March 20 -- Commuters on the 33.5-km Aqua line or Mumbai Metro 3 may soon face total mobile and internet blackout as the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) has terminated its contract with the firm which built and maintained infrastructure for mobile and internet connectivity in the fully-underground metro corridor, MMRCL officials told Hindustan Times.

"We have terminated the contract with ACES India as there was a lot of opposition from telecom companies who have been complaining of being arm-twisted for months now," a senior MMRCL official said on condition of anonymity.

ACES India, a subsidiary of the Saudi Arabia-based ACES, was engaged by MMRCL to install centralised telecom infrastructure on the Aarey to Cuffe P...