VEECON ROK, a joint venture between VEECON and ROK Group of Companies, has tapped BSNL for its multi-billion-dollar public WiFi project across 27 cities in India.
VEECON ROK will be investing $5 billion in the next 3-5 years in India’s WiFi infrastructure to connect the country.
VEECON ROK has selected BSNL for billing, marketing, branding and servicing. VEECON ROKiT Network will provide the investment and technology.
BSNL will offer free WiFi service for all for 3 months as part of an introductory offer. BSNL will charge Rs 260-360 per month.
BSNL has recently installed over 130,000 miles of fiber optic communications infrastructure across India. The VEECON ROK partnership will enable wide area connectivity of more than 500 million potential WiFi users.
ROK Group of Companies, founded by John Paul DeJoria and Jonathan Kendrick, has been providing mobile services and WiFi products for 17 years.
They will launch ROKiT mobile handsets that include the world’s first Naked-Eye 3D mobile phone starting January 2019 through 22,500 BSNL-owned service centers, with the initial Q1 availability in the 500 largest service centers.
“The public WiFi project in 27 cities is in sync with our Smart City Initiative and will move forward with our superior technology” said Gaurav Kumar Srivastava, co-chairman of VEECON ROK Corporation.
The WiFi pilot project will include 27 cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Varanasi, Ghazipur, Panaji, Pune, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Jaipur, Patna, Cochin, Guwahati, Tirupati, Shimla, Chandigarh, Noida, Gurugram, Dehradun, Indore and Agra.
