Public WiFi

The Delhi University has allocated a fund of Rs 67.71 crore for setting up a WiFi network across all its college campuses and in an upcoming girls' hostel in northwest Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar, according to an official document. The WiFi (Wireless Fidelity) connectivity will be set up across about 90 colleges of Delhi University, on both north and south campuses and the Dhaka Hostel complex, the document said. The execution of the work will be funded from the loan corpus of Rs 938.33 crore taken by the varsity from the Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA) in October last year to undertake various developmental projects. A loan share of Rs 261.33 crore from this corpus has been sanctioned by the HEFA for setting up the WiFi network as well as to start the work for the construction of a building for the Faculty of Technology. The HEFA is a joint venture company of Canara Bank and the Ministry of Education which provides financial assistance for the creation of educational ...

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The two other locations where the WiFi zones were established are Jammu railway station and the main bus stand, the official said.

Jammu Smart City Limited (JSCL) has signed an agreement with service provider LMES to install the WiFi hotspots

Delhi Metro commuters can now access the internet using free high-speed WiFi at all its Yellow Line stations

The PM WANI initiative can result in a massive scale-up of the internet in rural areas, which will be transformative, Trai Chairman said

The first, fixing technology gaps, should be easy. The second warrants consideration for better services and to avoid undue disruption

The networks will be set up through public data offices (PDOs) that will establish, maintain, and operate WANI-compliant Wi-Fi Access Points

Earlier in the day, Kejriwal announced that free 11,000 WiFi hotspots will be set up in the national capita

Under the partnership, Cisco is providing the network infrastructure and about 25 locations already live in Benagluru and another 200 locations will go live in the next 2-3 months in the city

The PDO creates Wi-Fi hotspots using 2G, 3G or 4G signals

India has nearly 31,000 such hotspots installed