Saturday 18 April 2015

Tank Bund, surroundings to be Wi-Fi enabled

Come Thursday, and the traffic police may have more to contend with. For they might find close to 2,500 citizens roaming Tank Bund and its vicinity, unmindful of the traffic, and engrossed in their mobile phones.

The environs of Tank Bund, Lumbini Park and Necklace Road will be Wi-Fi enabled, once Information Technology Minister K.T. Rama Rao inaugurates the free facility from Marriott Hotel in the evening.

Mr. Rao will be the first to use the services by interacting with Union IT Minister Ravishankar Prasad on video call.

The services are being offered by BSNL, in association with Quadgen Wireless Solutions, on an experimental basis.

At a time, 1,800-2,500 users can log in to use the services within 10-kilometre radius of Hussainsagar. The Wi-Fi will be free for 30 minutes, and will function at a speed of 2 Mbps to 20 Mbps.

Officials from BSNL and Quadgen have inspected the facility, and taken stock of the situation at the Tank Bund here on Wednesday.

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