Public WiFi plan ‘PM Wani’ gets cabinet approval

Public Wi-Fi hotspots at countless eateries, supermarkets, hotels, and different places the nation over could be a reality sooner rather than later, with the Union bureau on Wednesday clearing a task to extend the remote broadband network.

The undertaking, named Prime Minister Wi-Fi Access Network Interface (PM Wani), was initially suggested by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) in March 2017.

The public Wi-Fi organizations won’t pull in any permit or enlistment expense for offering broadband types of assistance, Union interchanges, gadgets, and data innovation serve Ravi Shankar Prasad said.

Previous Trai executive R.S. Sharma invited the declaration. “Public Wi-Fi organizations will ‘democratize’ content conveyance and broadband admittance to millions at reasonable rates. This will be the UPI (unified payments interface) of network administrations,” tweeted Sharma, who headed Trai when the controller made proposals in this issue to the division of media communications (DoT).