KTR launches Wi-Fi pilot project in State capital.

Trenches to be dug for laying drinking water supply pipelines would be used to also lay optical fibre cable (OFC) and provide broadband connectivity to every household across Telangana, IT Minister K. Tarakarama Rao said recently.

Launching the pilot of Hyderabad Wi-Fi Project to provide free connectivity around the Hussainsagar lake, Mr.Rao said the government having taken up an ambitious project of equipping each and every household with a drinking water tap, is using the same trench to provide broadband. 'In next four years, we hope to cover one crore households to make TS the first digitally connected State,' he said.

The pilot project covering Necklace Road and Hussainsagar road in association with BSNL and Quadgen Wireless Solutions offers 30 minutes free wi fi after which it would be charged. 'Very soon the entire city is to be equipped similar way to make Hyderabad the first in the country to become fully wi-fi enabled,' the Minister said.

The Wi-Fi project wijavascript:getvalue235();ll use BNSL's available optic fibre cable network running more than 4,000 km in the city. Plans are afoot to provide services at 2,000 locations and about 50 villages in the next 180 days.


THE HINDU