VSNL which is the market leader for Wi-Fi Hotspots in India, today announced expansion of its International In-roaming service on Wi-Fi, with the addition of NTT, Japan. Starhub, Singapore already utilizes the VSNL Wi-Fi network across India for its customers.

VSNL has been leading the growth of the Wi-Fi industry in India and today has the largest Wi-Fi deployment among domestic ISPs with over 350 hotspots. It has drawn up major plans this year to further enhance the footprint to over 1000 hotspots – bringing high-speed broadband internet much more closer to the large Indian traveling population

VSNL’s hotspots include the major domestic and International airports, leading premium Star hotels, educational institutions, sports stadia, hospitals, chain of restaurants and coffee shops. Its partners include companies like Taj Group of Hotels, Le Meridien, Café Coffee Day, Barista, Manipal University, Wockhardt, amongst others. VSNL has also been driving innovation through creating hotspots at non-traditional locations like Mobile Stores, IT stores, Railway Stations, etc.

VSNL is the only Indian ISP to be a member of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), a leading global consortium of Wi-Fi service providers. It has been a key player in developing the Wireless market in India and has drawn up a number of initiatives leveraging the alliance. Operator members of WBA own and operate over 60,000 Wi-Fi hotspots worldwide and the membership in WBA enables VSNL to leverage the same.

“Over the next six months, VSNL intends to open up its extensive Wi-Fi network to millions of customers of international telecom operators, thereby enabling for travelers to India, access to high speed wireless broadband zones in key locations in the top 10 cities in the country. " said Mr Prateek Pashine, Vice President--Planning, Retail Broadband Business, VSNL.

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About VSNL

Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL), a part of the Tata Group, is the leading provider of public international telecommunications services in India. VSNL has, with the acquisition of Teleglobe, a provider of international voice, data and value-added services comprised mainly of mobile global roaming and signaling services, become a global major in wholesale voice and carriage of international long distance minutes, and has acquired ownership of submarine cable systems and has gained access to teleport antennae and transponder capacity serving the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. VSNL now carries a large share of VoIP traffic as well. VSNL has a global presence including operations in India, the United States of America, Canada, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Singapore and Sri Lanka. Its range of service offerings include wholesale voice, private leased circuits, IP VPN, Internet access, hosting, mobile signaling and other IP services. VSNL offers a full range of retail products in India to individual customers such as high-speed broadband, dial-up Internet, Wi-Fi, and net telephony under the Tata Indicom brand name.

VSNL is listed on the major stock exchanges in India and its American Depository Receipts are listed on the New York Stock Exchange.