Lucknow gets Wi-Fied!: 27 spots in the city now offer free Wi-Fi facility for 30 minutes

Forget begging, bribing and threatening your friends for their hotspot passwords, for Lucknow city has now got WiFi-ed! The service was first started in 7 spots in the city and has now been expanded to 20 new areas. Reportedly, while Wi-Fi in 7 places was set up at the cost of ₹10 lakhs, the cost of setting up the facility in additional 20 places has gone up to a whooping ₹94 lakhs.

Places in Lucknow that now have free Wi-Fi service include Hazratganj market, KGMU, Janpath market, Balu Adda, Aminabad, Bhootnath market, Avadh Bus Stand, Gaus Nagar, Kapurthala market, Kaiserbagh Bus Station, Alambagh Market, Faizullaganj, Balrampur Hospital, Choti Jugauli, Civil Hospital, Gomti Riverfront Area, Lucknow University, Patrakarpuram Chauraha, Lucknow Zoo and National PG College.

Totally digging the idea of a Wi-Fi-equipped Lucknow!

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Waiting for your bus, but your phone’s data network seems to be in transit too? Or accompanying your mother to the market where she ends up bargaining for so long, that forget your data network, even the shopkeeper has given up on you? Enough for the sad emojis, cuz through this latest development, you can now access Wi-Fi facilities in markets and selected hospitals across Lucknow.

According to smart city officials, at present, a Wi-Fi facility is being provided at all places for 30 minutes with monitoring. Wi-Fi introduction in Lucknow has been in the pipeline for way too long now but was postponed due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. With the pandemic slowly pulling back, as part of the first phase, the facility was first started in about seven places, including some major parks and railway stations in Lucknow.