From now on, people visiting the Hussain Sagar Lake straddling the twin-cities can take a selfie at the scenic lake and post it to their social networks instantly – free of cost.
On Thursday a pilot Wi-Fi service project was started along the 10 KM boundary of the lake that is a major tourist destination and also a favourite hangout zone for the Hyderabadis. The famous tank-bund, necklace road, Lumbini Park, NTR gardens, Prasad’s IMAX are all located along the lake.
In what makes a visit here more preferred and more so for the students from nearby colleges running on low pocket money, the first 30 minutes of the Wi-Fi service would be totally free. But a charge of Rs 30 per hour would apply thereafter.
About 2500 people can make use of the offer at data speeds ranging from 2 to 20 Mbps enabled by the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited.
Telangana IT minister K Tarakarama Rao launched the experimental project by making a video call to the union IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
“We would make the entire city Wi-Fi enabled by this year end and plan to do the same for other major towns like Warangal, Karimnagar in five years,” Rao said at the event.
{{/usCountry}}“We would make the entire city Wi-Fi enabled by this year end and plan to do the same for other major towns like Warangal, Karimnagar in five years,” Rao said at the event.
{{/usCountry}}Hyderabad also known as Cyberabad and Hi-Tech City – a hub of IT companies and techies – has about 4000 kms of optic fibre network laid out already.
Speaking to HT, Jayesh Ranjan, secretary, IT, Telangana said that they are warm to an idea to make Wi-Fi free for the entire city.
“But for that to happen we need to have huge volume of users. And in any case that is not a decision we can make and is up to the service providers and their business calculations,” Ranjan said.