New Delhi: The government is planning to allow interoperability of public WiFi that will enable users to login for the facility once and stay connected with the wireless internet service across the country without any need for refilling entire details again on their mobile devices.
"Interoperability of public WiFi is under consideration. This will enable a user to stay connected with all public WiFi across the country when they come within its range. A mobile device user have to login once, and other WiFi networks, be it of BSNL, Airtel, Jio, etc, will recognise the device and connect it to the network," an official source said.
The source said the proposal is likely to come up under consideration of inter-ministerial panel Digital Communications Commission (DCC), at its meeting scheduled on Tuesday.
Under the National Digital Communications Policy 2018, the government has targeted
to enable deployment of
five million public WiFi hotspots by 2020 and 10
million by 2022.
Under the current rules, a mobile device user is required to fill form and enter the one-time password (OTP) sent on his mobile number to connect to a public WiFi. Sometimes, users do not get one-time password on their mobile device and, hence, fail to connect with the service.