Govt to install 5 lakh hotspots by end of 2018
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New Delhi, January 20: The Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan has stated that the Indian government is likely to install over 5 lakh hotspots across the country. This move is under the support of 2nd phase of the BharatNet project.
Aruna Sundararajan said that every village in the country will get one Wi-Fi hotspot. To deliver the broadband through cable, the government is also likely to use the models of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
The second phase in many ways will be a game changer, one because of the big Wi-Fi roll out that we are targeting, that is by the end of this year we should go up to 5 lakh Wi-Fi hotspots from 38,000.
Bharat Net has focused on rural India, in the new policy we also want to focus on fibreisation in urban India. We will have to benchmark how much fibre we are putting in every day to achieve 4G and 5G. So, it has to become a national priority, with state governments and municipalities recognising it.