Policy to enable proliferation of public wifi hotspots on anvil: DoT official

A policy to enable proliferation of public wifi hotspots in the country is on anvil, a senior Telecom Department official said on Tuesday. Department of Telecom Member (Technology) K Ramchand said all technologies including satellite communication will be leveraged for providing broadband to all citizens.

“In the near future, we are going to come out with a policy which will enable proliferation of public wifi hotspots…again the demand for bandwidth for providing these public wifi hotspots will also be there, and we will try to use all the technologies including satellite technologies, for providing broadband