The Airports Authority of India had apparently given the contract to set up a Wi-fi network at the new terminal to BSNL. Parts of the terminal did get Wi-fi connectivity under a pilot project, only for BSNL to withdraw it in May.
Airport officials said several rounds of communication between the AAI and BSNL had failed to end the impasse.
Wi-fi allows digital devices within a particular area to connect to the Internet and one another. For travellers on the move, especially foreign tourists, Wi-fi access is the ideal alternative to a high-tariff mobile phone connection with international roaming.
Many use the facility to check in by showing e-tickets on their tablets or send WhatsApp, Skype or FaceTime messages to those waiting outside airports to receive them.
“A pilot project was started in March for a month but there was a delay at our end in making the system fully operational. Three months back, we wrote to the AAI to say that we were withdrawing,” Gautam Chakravarty, chief general manager of Calcutta Telephones, told Metro.
According to a senior airport official, four to five passengers verbally complain to the airport managers every day about the absence of Wi-fi in the terminal.
21/10/13 Kaushik Ghosh/Sanjay Mandal/Telegraph
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Airport officials said several rounds of communication between the AAI and BSNL had failed to end the impasse.
Wi-fi allows digital devices within a particular area to connect to the Internet and one another. For travellers on the move, especially foreign tourists, Wi-fi access is the ideal alternative to a high-tariff mobile phone connection with international roaming.
Many use the facility to check in by showing e-tickets on their tablets or send WhatsApp, Skype or FaceTime messages to those waiting outside airports to receive them.
“A pilot project was started in March for a month but there was a delay at our end in making the system fully operational. Three months back, we wrote to the AAI to say that we were withdrawing,” Gautam Chakravarty, chief general manager of Calcutta Telephones, told Metro.
According to a senior airport official, four to five passengers verbally complain to the airport managers every day about the absence of Wi-fi in the terminal.
21/10/13 Kaushik Ghosh/Sanjay Mandal/Telegraph
