Retail chain Cafe Coffee Day (CCD) has tied up with Indian Wi-Fi service provider O-Zone Networks to provide free Wi-Fi broadband access to customers at its cafes in select cities.
CCD aims to offer high-speed Internet connectivity to its tech-driven customers through a dedicated leased line at its cafes.
The Bangalore-based coffee retail company will set up the Wi-Fi infrastructure at CCD outlets in a phased manner. In the first phase of the launch, 225 CCD outlets in Delhi and Bangalore offer free Wi-Fi services to its customers. In the next phase, CCD retail outlets in other cities including Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai and Goa will offer free Wi-Fi broadband.
Apart from Wi-Fi, O-Zone Networks will be providing bandwidth and IP to run the cafe chain’s PoS systems and camera.
This apart, users in 24 CCD shops in the initial phase can download digital content such as games, Hollywood and Bollywood content at hyper speeds. Additionally, SpeedFetch users in the 24 cafes in Delhi will have unlimited access to content at zero bandwidth cost.
CCD will offer free Wi-Fi service for the first 30 minutes. Post this, the user will have to pay Rs 15 for 30 minutes for 1 GB usage. If they use more Wi-Fi, the charge will come down proportionately.
“We are the market leaders in providing Public Wi-Fi service and we believe this collaboration is another step forward in our endeavor to establish a large “neutral” network for our partners to broadcast their SSIDs to their subscribers like Reliance Communication and others in the future,” said Sanjeev Sarin, founder and CEO of O-Zone Networks.
