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Total investment for the project will be to the tune of Rs 100 cr

Pune April 3 Pune, bypassing Bangalore and Hyderabad (preferred IT destinations), has become the first wireless city in the country with the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), Microsense and Intel Technology Pvt Ltd joining hands to commercially roll out the first phase of the 802.16d Wi-Fi and WiMax network in the city.

Mr R. Sivakumar, Managing Director of Intel, South Asia, said that Intel has received request for proposal from these locations. Intel is the technical consultant (on architecture) for this project, which is a private-public partnership initiative under PMC. Microsense would be the broadband and network service partner.

Targeting schools

Dr Nitin Kareer, Commissioner of the PMC, said the Phase 1 of `Unwire Pune' projected deployment targets to provide wireless connectivity to an area of 25 sq km covering four locations in the city.

The first phase may be completed within four to six months and the entire project of 250 sq km would be rolled out in the next 12 to 18 months, he added.

The total investment for the entire project is to the tune of Rs 100 crore over the next two years. Dr Kareer said the first phase would also target 30 PMC schools and with the complete deployment all the 300 municipal schools under it would become part of the project.

He said all schools — private and aided ones — would be charged an amount while the municipal schools would be near free of charge.

Dr Kareer said rates would be at Rs 250 per month and speed would range between an initial 256 kbps.

It could be upgraded as per the requirement noting that it could also be equipped for voice.

Current spectrums for the project are 2.4, 3.3,3.4 and 5.8 ghz, which was recently de-licensed by the Centre.

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