BMC plan to make Mumbai WiFi-enabled

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MUMBAI: The metropolis will go WiFi in a few months from now if a public-private partnership initiated by the BMC fructifies. WiFi or Wireless Fidelity enables anyone with a PC or a laptop to access internet without having to plug in. Someone travelling in a car or a train could use it as well.

However, wireless access to the worldwide web will come at a fee although the BMC promises that it will be much cheaper than the present charges.

The Rs 50-crore project proposal is still in its nascent stage and tenders will be invited within a month. The civic body will take up the responsibility of erecting towers, while the service providers will pool in the funds. To get WiFi-enabled, towers will be erected throughout the city. While some will be in the city, others will be in the suburbs and the fringes. The pre-requisites such as roadmap detailing, the licensing, positioning of hotspots, hardware and software requirements and survey of the city for setting up the towers will soon be spelled out.
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Source: BMC's Rs 50 cr plan to make Mumbai WiFi-enabled-Mumbai-Cities-The Times of India
 
Is mumbai the perfect city ??? errr....I mean this is truely uncalled for.......
50 CR ? for something like this which WONT be made use of by the common public or the 'mumbai aam janta' ......seriously this is not cool......

Roads , Home for the Poor , Food plans for the poor , Security for the people , Jobs , Education ....??????? when will these issues be addressed ? or they are done with the spend quota on these ?

Is WiFi a higher priority than some of the pts mentioend above....:no: ...

An for something which will stop working in a few months ...or will always have a down time........seriously...WASTE.
 
Nice idea... wrong place, wrong time. As Rushabh and Hanzy mentioned, those issues should top priority to BMC than this stupid idea, which barely few people will use and will be usable (read: properly working) for half the time. 50 Cr on this?... sounds more like, increasing a bandwidth of income to few government officials. :P
 
I agree. BMC needs to get its act together. It is catering only to the needs of the rich, from where they get bribes and other illegal "revenue".

So, basically, what BMC is doing is only attending to the needs of the select few, who are able to fill the pockets of the top BMC authorities.

That, or the BMC is really stupid and just doesn't know what to do when.
 
rushabht said:
These bastids need to fix the roads
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Well I suppose BMC thinks it is providing the same service ... which is maintenance of Highways ..... Express Highways and Internet Highway. :ohyeah:

Hmm..... will they have potholes on their Internet Highway too. :rofl:
 
YYes they have too look those 1st...

Another reason would be they want cut those wires hang from bldg to other bldg ....look like wire jungle.....
 
Eazy said:
Well I suppose BMC thinks it is providing the same service ... which is maintenance of Highways ..... Express Highways and Internet Highway. :ohyeah:

Hmm..... will they have potholes on their Internet Highway too. :rofl:
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ROFLOL, and then prolly import 'foreign' technology to fix the potholes. Try it for one year & find out that it was unsuccessful. Which would lead to the final outcome i.e. shifting to desi fixation of roads. But these guys surely are hell bent about showing that even mars would suck to bombay when it comes to potholes that are seen on our roads :ohyeah:.
 
nice idea... right place.. right time... i say bring it on baby...

so many people have cell phones with wifi not used.... evena paltry 6-8kBps speed will do wonders for all those....

i have a 2mbps night UL connection for my downloading needs but i want to have a slow but unlimited connection for surfing from my desktop, laptop and mobile.. this would be absolutely perfect...

although it should be maintained properly... and have good security checks before giving free access...

and sorry to say terroist attacks and poor roads is here to stay... reason, they are the main drivers of votes for politicians.... cant u see, they purposefully use sub quality amterials for roads to get washed off by the rains... consider this as a RECURRING SUNK COST.... no point in pitching it against free wifi net...
 
they could invest 50cr to get some of the new concrete thats being used in europe that will automatically catalyze the CO and CO2 in the air
 
It's not a bad idea at all. but BMC does not have the expertise. Not even in filling up the potholes which they have been trying to learn through ages.
 
This project already put in deep-freeze by BMC after Bomb blast in Ahmadabad, this is what I saw/hear in one Marathi News Channel.
 
Emperor said:
This project already put in deep-freeze by BMC after Bomb blast in Ahmadabad, this is what I saw/hear in one Marathi News Channel.
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they are experts in wasting money and never giving satisfactory services to people... just so that they can keep asking for more votes... bloddy #$%% @#$@# !@#!@#$ !@$ @#$@#$%.... (that was the most i swear ever)...

it takes me 60 mins toa nd from office coz of roads which should take 10 misn straight... :@ :@
 
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