We are going to open a tender in a week’s time. Once this is done, a feasibility study will be carried out to check the potential of setting up Wi-Fi services across Navi Mumbai. Although we are planning to provide the service to all the sectors in the city, household consumers will be our priority. Depending on the project’s initial success, we will extend the service to business houses and industries.”

He added, “We will award a contract to a private company for installation of Wi-Fi nodes and setting up a Wi-Fi network. The same company will be allowed to provide connections. But we will regulate the charges, as we intend to provide low-cost Wi-Fi to the citizens.

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Since the NMMC won’t be paying any licence fee to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) for the Wi-Fi service, it will help us keep the charges reasonably low.” Once the tendering process for the first phase is over, the contract-winning firm will carry out a survey to decide upon the spots in Belapur area for installing Wi-Fi nodes. u00a0