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MarcaTel, a provider of Wi-Fi connectivity in public spaces, has opened its first centre in Bengaluru and is planning to create 2,000 jobs this year.
MarcaTel installs towers that allow Wi-Fi access in a fixed radius and also maintains these towers. It is a division of LaMarca Knowledge and Services, which has a tie-up with BLUETOWN India, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Denmark-based BLUETOWN. MarcaTel‘s solution comes with three antennas, a base transceiver station and a power supply unit.
“The centre would cater to the needs of South India,” said Narayanan Rajagopalan, President, LaMarca Group. MarcaTel has bagged four retail commercial orders from Karnataka.
Further, the company plans to install 1,000 such towers this year, as the need for internet access goes up in urbal and rural areas. MarcaTel will hire people in sales, marketing, engineering and customer support functions. “We have opened a 50-seat call centre and plan to employ 200 there,” Rajagopalan added.
Wi-Fi networks use radio waves that are deployed within unlicensed spectrum over the 2.4 gigahertz (GHz) and 5GHz frequency bands to connect to a wireless access point, which directly connects to the internet.
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