Sunday 31 December 2017

Wi-Fi hotspots & CCTVs to see good growth in 2018

This is an age of CCTV where every move of the people is watched and recorded to check crimes and other illegal activities. This has given a big boost to the industry. The government is also giving a major push to CCTV to be set up at public departments and also to monitor traffic as well as Wi-Fi with plans to deploy 7.5 lakh public internet hotspots by the end of 2018.


At present, the number of Wi-Fi is not too big and the country has only 31,000 Wi-Fi hotspots compared with 1.3 crore in France and 98 lakh in the United States, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).

If we look at CCTV, the United Kingdom has one CCTV for every 14 people, while India is believed to be nowhere near, though exact figures are not available.

The Wi-Fi rollout will benefit Reliance Jio, Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Cellular and state-owned BSNL, apart from internet services providers (ISPs).

Google too will complete its deployment of Wi-Fi hotspots at 800 railway stations; 227 stations are already online, with an average of 75 lakh users accessing the internet via these hotspots.

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