State-run telco BSNL said that it has joined hands with internet major Googleto expand its WiFi footprint across the country. The telco said that the new initiative will help the customers to use BSNL high speed internet services on WiFi.
"We have been partnering with various technology companies upgrading our platforms and increasing our customer reach in this era of ever increasing demand of high speed internet," BSNL Director (CFA) Board Shri Vivek Banzal said in a statement.
The telco said that it is also taking steps to increase the rural WiFi foot print promoting the government initiative of ‘Digital India’.
Google has previously completed the rollout of RailWAccording to an Analysys Mason study, public Wi-Fi will connect 40 million new users to the internet by 2019 and that around 100 million people would be willing to spend an additional $2 to 3 billion per year on handsets and a similar amount on cellular mobile broadband services, as a result of experiencing fast broadband on public Wi-Fi in Indiaire Wi-Fi across 400 railway stations in partnership with RailTel in India. It had also bagged a deal along with RailTel and Larsen & Toubro to deploy 150 Google Station hotspots in Pune.
About Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)
♦ Headquarter: New Delhi
♦ CEO: Anupam Shrivastava
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♦ CEO: Sundar Pichai