One million WiFi hotspots to be rolled out across the country by December 2019

NEW DELHI: In a bid to take another step towards the digital empowerment of the nation, Manoj Sinha, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Communications and Minister of State for Railways, announced at India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2018 that by December 2019, the Indian telecom industry will roll out one million WiFi hotspots across the country.
This initiative will benefit the consumers across the country allows to access Wi-Fi Hotspots of any of the partnering operators. Bharat Wi-Fi is a country-wide common inter-operable platform of one million Wi-Fi Hotspots. The hotspots to be rolled out will be owned and operated by Telecom Service Providers, Internet Service Providers and Virtual Network Operators