Mysore, India offers commercial WiFi

Om Malik, Tuesday, August 16, 2005 at 9:00 PM PT Comments (10)

Mysore, one of the most beautiful cities in India, has become one of the first cities in India to offer commercial WiFi access, thanks to a company called WiFiyNet. “Don’t let the oldworld charm of Mysore fool you. It has raced past hi-tech Bangalore, by going completely wireless (Wi-Fi), an achievement still beyond Bangalore,” says Times of India

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10 comments so far

August 17th, 2005
12:35 AM PT
Sridhar Pai said:

Exciting to know this. but not sure what the note means by saying 100% covered? Also wonder why the Mysore Bangalore hiway is not getting wired? - Kushalnagar is enroute Coorg (a lovely hill station in Karnataka) but less dense in terms of traffic..besides with hiway to Blr getting six-laned…
Will try this out soon…
cheers
Pai

August 18th, 2005
9:36 PM PT
Robin Ghose said:

Hi,

The entire area as mentioned in the papers is not covered. These are actually 3 hotspots with a effective radius of around 50-100m.

August 19th, 2005
6:31 PM PT
dan said:

Appreciate it !!!
We being in US are not able to get the wifi. Whereas in Mysore they have made it reality. That itself is an achievement.

September 2nd, 2005
4:53 AM PT

it was not expected form times of india that it will present such misleding and exaggerated News.
please looda lee le maammu kaa!!!!!!!!!!!! bahut baadda hai

September 16th, 2005
11:28 AM PT
Robin Ghose said:

We are covering over 150 hotspots all india… with effective radius of 50 - 100 meters… do the math

October 15th, 2005
10:55 PM PT
Ravi said:

I would like to know how to test this out - i cannot find any website/directory information on this wireless provider.

November 15th, 2005
5:35 PM PT
MG said:

Hi, Is there coverage in Kuvempunagar? Does anybody know the telephone contact of the provider?
Thanks
MG

December 2nd, 2005
1:40 PM PT
rwar said:

I will be arriving in Mysore (Gokulum) December 6 2005 and living in the city through March 2006 I will be working by email with my clients in the US. Do I need to have Airtel come and hook up the DSL or is Mysore and more specifically Gokulum truly a free WiFi hotspot?

If anyone can provide information, I would really appreciate first hand knowledge.

Best regards,
Rwar

December 27th, 2005
3:33 AM PT
Apurva said:

Its really difficult to find details on who is giving Wifi, which areas are Wifi Hotspots etc.

I feel this is more propoganda than truth. Last I enquired from one provider and he told me that you need to buy a wireless router worth 7K rs. If that is what I have to do then why is city called wifi city.

January 23rd, 2006
11:03 AM PT
George said:

What’s so great about the Wi-Fi of Mysore if covers just an area of 100 meters(radius)i don’t think that’s a big achievement .

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