Traveling to India? You Can Now Access up to 23,000 Wi-Fi Hotspots Using iPass
Jun. 14, 2018State-run telcoBSNLhas partnered with iPass, a US-based connectivity solutions provider, to strengthen its country-wide network of public Wi-Fi hotspots. With this alliance,iPass users will have access to over 23,000 public Wi-Fi zonesat different tourist attractions, public places, and villages in India.
This initiative is aimed at providing easyinternet access to western tourists traveling to and within India. iPass offers SmartConnect, a cloud-based connectivity suite which automatically identifies authorized public Wi-Fi hotspots nearby and connects the user without the hassles of memorizing passwords or even entering OTPs. iPass has nearly 64 million Wi-Fi access points worldwide.
The Department of Telecom recently reported that with theintroduction of Wi-Fi to the BharatNetinitiative, the internet consumption in villages has jumped to nearly three times it was with ethernet. The government now covers 1 lakh gram panchayats, of which nearly 7,200 have Wi-Fi access.
Users can pay Rs. 100 per month and avail 12GB of data for 28 days, or even buy much cheaper data sachets starting at Rs. 10. More importantly, this service is not limited to a single hotspot and users can connect to any of the hotspots across India with a single recharge.
