The Hindu Business Line : O-Zone to set up 2,000 Wi-Fi hotspots

NEW DELHI: Wi-Fi infrastructure and services firm O-Zone Networks expects to implement about 2,000 public 'Wi-Fi hotspots' projects across the country by March next year with orders coming in from various industry verticals such as hotels, hospitals, sho pping malls and coffee chains.

“We have already partnered with real estate developer, DLF to bring Wi-Fi Internet access to 256 towers across the country. We are working on similar projects for Cafe Coffee Day, hospitality players such as Radisson and Orchid as well as hospitals sucgh as Fortis,” O-Zone Networks Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Mr Bobby Sarin said.

The company expects to implement about 2,000 Wi-Fi projects by March 2010, he added.

Wi-fi is a technology which gives user broadband access in a limited radius of around 300 metres and is used by restaurants, airport lounges and other commercial places to offer visitors mobile broadband access to Internet within their premises.

The coverage of these interconnected access points is called a hotspot. The investments in these projects would be done by O-Zone as well as the project owner.

“The revenue sharing depends on the investment made and who has made the investment,” Mr Sarin said. - PTI

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