Telangana Government has launched Hyderabad city Wi-Fi project setting up over 3,000 Wi-Fi hotspots for offering free public Wi-Fi.
Bharti Airtel, ACT and Indus Towers are the technology partners.
“Telangana aspires to be the best state in all aspects. Hyderabad has been an inspiration for other cities in IT, business and living standards, and this city will continue to adopt new technologies to uplift the lifestyle of each citizen,” said Bonthu Rammohan, mayor of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.
Telangana launched the pilot version of Hyderabad City Wi-Fi Project in June 2015 and partnered with ISPs to provide free Wi-Fi for 30 minutes at approximately 100 public category locations across Hyderabad. Over the last two years, the number has more than doubled to cover about 250 locations.
The state government has introduced a new order to enable smooth execution of the Wi-Fi project for ISPs and cover more than 3000 locations across Hyderabad. At present, over 1000 hotspots are being installed with an assured bandwidth of 5-10 Mbps offering 30 minutes of free Wi-Fi.
“Digital India is the future and Telangana is marching ahead to achieve this dream. Hy-Fi is another pro-people initiative where citizens will avail free Wi-Fi to do their work,” said Jayesh Ranjan, principal secretary, ITE&C Department, Govt. of Telangana.
Telecom industry association COAI is the technical advisor to the Government of Telangana in this Internet project.
“Airtel has been a partner in the Government’s Digital India vision and we are delighted to support Hy-fi, the country’s largest and fastest public WI-FI network,” said Venkatesh Vijayraghavan, circle CEO – Bharti Airtel.
“With more than 1,000 hotspots to be installed across the city will enable users to get high-speed internet both inside their homes and on the go throughout Hyderabad,” said Bala Malladi, CEO of ACT Fibernet.
