Lok Sabha Question No. 248 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-11-27
Subject: Wi-Fi Service for Smart City Project
Ministry: COMMUNICATION
Asked by: Shri Imran Masood

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 248 TO BE ANSWERED ON 27 TH  NOVEMBER, 2024

## WI-FI SERVICE FOR SMART CITY PROJECT

## †248 SHRI IMRAN MASOOD:

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATION be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  free  Wi-Fi  service  is  being  offered  as  per  the  set  standards  in  all  100  cities selected under Smart City Project;
- (b) if so, the city-wise details of service provider companies;
- (c) the number of places where the service provider company is obligated to provide the service, city-wise;
- (d) the number of places where service is actually being provided, city-wise; and
- (e) the city-wise details of data consumption?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT (DR. PEMMASANI CHANDRA SEKHAR)

- (a) The free Wi-Fi service is currently being offered in 39 cities through Smart City projects under the Smart Cities Mission.
- (b) to (d) The city wise details of the smart cities where the free Wi-Fi service is being provided along with the details of the service provider companies, the number of places where the service provider company is obligated to provide the service and the number of places where the service is actually being provided is as follows:

|   S. No. | Smart City   | Service Provider Company           |   Number of places where the service provider company is obligated to provide the service |   Number of places service where is actually being provided |
|----------|--------------|------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Agartala     | Honeywell Automation India Limited |                                                                                        28 |                                                          28 |
|        2 | Agra         | BSNL                               |                                                                                         6 |                                                           6 |
|        3 | Ahmedabad    | BSNL                               |                                                                                       159 |                                                         159 |
|        4 | Aizawl       | Bharti Airtel, DHI Enterprise      |                                                                                        15 |                                                          15 |
|        5 | Aligarh      | BSNL                               |                                                                                         4 |                                                           4 |
|        6 | Bareilly     | Aruba                              |                                                                                        10 |                                                           9 |
|        7 | Belagavi     | BSNL                               |                                                                                        16 |                                                          16 |
|        8 | Bhopal       | Indus Towers Ltd                   |                                                                                        83 |                                                          83 |

|   S. No. | Smart City        | Service Provider Company                                      |   Number of places where the service provider company is obligated to provide the service |   Number of places service where is actually being provided |
|----------|-------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|
|        9 | Bhubaneswar       | BSNL                                                          |                                                                                       518 |                                                         518 |
|       10 | Bilaspur          | Idea, Vodafone, Airtel                                        |                                                                                        23 |                                                          23 |
|       11 | Chennai           | Airtel                                                        |                                                                                        50 |                                                          50 |
|       12 | Dahod             | Ishan Netsol                                                  |                                                                                        23 |                                                          23 |
|       13 | Erode             | Jio Fiber                                                     |                                                                                         1 |                                                           1 |
|       14 | Faridabad         | Honeywell Automation India Limited                            |                                                                                         9 |                                                           9 |
|       15 | Gandhinagar       | Amnex Infotechnologies Pvt. Ltd.                              |                                                                                        49 |                                                          44 |
|       16 | Jhansi            | L&T Technology Services                                       |                                                                                        17 |                                                          17 |
|       17 | Kakinada          | City Online Pvt Ltd                                           |                                                                                       420 |                                                         420 |
|       18 | Kanpur            | Reliance Communication                                        |                                                                                        66 |                                                          59 |
|       19 | Karimnagar        | D - Atum Vilcom Private limited                               |                                                                                        22 |                                                          21 |
|       20 | Kohima            | Symbios                                                       |                                                                                        16 |                                                          16 |
|       21 | Lucknow           | Sikka Broadband Pvt. Ltd.                                     |                                                                                        22 |                                                          22 |
|       22 | Moradabad         | Airtel                                                        |                                                                                        35 |                                                          35 |
|       23 | Nagpur            | BSNL                                                          |                                                                                       290 |                                                         290 |
|       24 | NDMC              | Indus, Planat, Sign Post                                      |                                                                                       153 |                                                         153 |
|       25 | New Town Kolkata  | New Town Telecom Infrastructure Development Co. Ltd (NTTIDCO) |                                                                                        10 |                                                          10 |
|       26 | Panaji            | Reliance Jio                                                  |                                                                                        98 |                                                          95 |
|       27 | Pasighat          | Shaildhar Telecom Services Pvt Ltd                            |                                                                                         5 |                                                           5 |
|       28 | Pimpri- Chinchwad | VI and Airtel                                                 |                                                                                       215 |                                                         215 |
|       29 | Pune              | Railtel Corporation                                           |                                                                                       199 |                                                         199 |
|       30 | Raipur            | Airtel                                                        |                                                                                        20 |                                                          19 |
|       31 | Rajkot            | Honeywell India Automation Limited                            |                                                                                       142 |                                                         142 |
|       32 | Salem             | Airtel                                                        |                                                                                         3 |                                                           3 |
|       33 | Srinagar          | Peer Network                                                  |                                                                                         1 |                                                           1 |
|       34 | Thanjavur         | BSNL, Evergreen Technologies                                  |                                                                                         3 |                                                           3 |
|       35 | Thoothukudi       | Prutech                                                       |                                                                                         3 |                                                           3 |
|       36 | Tiruchirappalli   | Lantrasoft Private Limited                                    |                                                                                         3 |                                                           3 |
|       37 | Ujjain            | Reliance Jio                                                  |                                                                                         3 |                                                           3 |
|       38 | Vadodara          | Indus tower                                                   |                                                                                        85 |                                                          85 |
|       39 | Visakhapatnam     | L&T                                                           |                                                                                        50 |                                                          50 |

(e) The data  consumption in  a  city  may  vary  based  on  the  location  of  the  wi-fi  hotspot,  the population,  service  quality  and  service  accessibility  among  others,  based  on  which  the  data consumption in a city can range from 0-15 GB per hotspot per day.

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