City to get 10 Wi-Fi hotspots this month

May 03, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 05:39 am IST - Kochi:

By May 15, the ten Wi-Fi zones in major public centres of the city would be operational, said sources in the BSNL, which is implementing the project in collaboration with the Corporation of Kochi and QuadGen Wireless Solutions.

In the first phase of the project, Wi-Fi facility is being made available at the Corporation office, Subhash Park, Marine Drive, High Court, Kaloor bus stand, Edappally, Durbar Hall Ground, High Court, the Court Complex, Mattancherry and Fort Kochi.

“The facility is up and running as of Saturday on a trial basis. The hotspots have been set up and access points activated, within a radius of up to 300 metres in each of these locations. Traffic data is being collected from the public logging in for free for 15 minutes. We are just monitoring the volume of traffic and data flow to see if there’s a need to up the bandwidth for enhancing data speed in certain areas. However, bandwidth and validation of the tariff structure will only be finalised after evaluating the data traffic,” said an official.

The State-run BSNL had earlier maintained that the Wi-Fi zones would be at a radius of 300 metres from the access point and a bandwidth of 10 mbps would be made available to users.

Once commissioned, mobile users with a valid connection can log in using a login id and password and payment could be made either through net banking or using prepaid vouchers, to be made available to BSNL franchisees in the city.

Besides, the BSNL is working on a proposal to have a total of 500 Wi-Fi hotpots across the State. “BSNL Ernakulam alone will have 120 sites as part of this ambitious project,” said the official.

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