Hyderabad :

If everything goes according to plan, Hyderabad is all set to be a 4G Wi-Fi enabled city by the year end.

Reliance Group officials including CEO K S Venugopal and company coordinator PVC Madhava Rao called on chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao following which information technology minister Taraka Rama Rao held a review meeting with them. Reliance officials explained the road map for enabling the entire Hyderabad with 4G Wi-Fi towards the end of the year.

According to a press release, Reliance officials assured the government that the 4G service would be commissioned in September in the western part of the city where IT companies are clustered and would be gradually expanded to the rest of the city by December.

“The 4G Wi-Fi service will be launched in a phased manner.

In the first phase, along with Hyderabad, six corporations and 37 municipalities would be covered. In the second phase, 220 mandals will get the service. And in the third and final phase, the entire Telangana will come under 4G cover,” said the release.

For the first six months the service would be free. Following Hyderabad, Warangal would be a Wi-Fi enabled city in the second phase. Hoping to complete the ongoing works within the specified time frame,

Reliance is investing Rs 4,100 crore on the venture which calls for 1,700 km of optical fibre cable network. So far, 500 km of cabling has been completed.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Hyderabad / TNN / July 18th, 2014