Vijayawada, Pandit Nehru Bus Station (PNBS)
is the first city bus stand in the country went live with providing Free 5G Wi-Fi services to passengers, the bus station is equipped with 17 hotspots to cater internet services with high broadband speed.
The state government bus transport service provider, APSRTC, tied up with BSNL and BSNL and Quad Gen and started offering free 5G Wi-Fi Services on Monday, for first 30 minutes public access to internet through Wi-Fi hotspots located in bus station is given for free, after that passengers have to shell out Rs.30 to purchase scratch card which available in bus station or the users can also load the money by topping up the amount through online, With recharge of Rs.30 a user would get data of 300 MB.
“The innovative MIMO antenna technology enables the 5G Wi-Fi access from each hotspot at a high speed of 1.2 Gbps and the limit of free WiFi is 2 to 20 mbps. People can use their smart phones, tablets and laptops with this WiFi service. Nearly 400-500 people can access the WiFi services from each hotspot. Initially, we are providing 30 minutes free WiFi, which will be later reduced to 15 minutes and for additional WiFi service, people need to buy scratch cards,” said Satish Benarji, COO of Quad Gen
APSRTC MD N Sambasiva Rao, said, the launch of free 5G Wi-Fi service in the city bus stand will provide a additional cash flows to entity, “For the convenience of the passengers, we have initiated the 5G WiFi service on pilot basis and it will soon be extended to Visakhapatnam and Tirupati. We will have 50 per cent share in the revenue generated with this new service,”
The Qfi brand based Wi-Fi service will be extended to all district-level bus depots of APSRTC in the next 90 days
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