Municipal Wi-fi: Unwire Pune, an Analysis: Public Private Partnership Model Towards Ubiquitous Connectivity

Various cities across the world are moving towards providing ubiquitous wireless connectivity and municipal wireless systems are being experimented with. The city of Pune in western India launched the Unwire Pune project promising to make the entire city wire-free by March 2007. The project being conceptualized by the city municipal corporation in partnership with Intel if successful would make Pune the first fully wireless city in India. The research in this book discusses the project in detail emphasising the realistic benefits of the project to the local population of the city alongside laying down the hindrances which the project could likely be faced with.