Tata Teleservices (TTL) has unveiled new Wi-Fi business in Chennai. The company plans to connect everything from India Inc’s employee buses to educational institutions. Apart from the usual sectors like airport, hospitality and malls, the company is planning enter in sectors such as education and transit busses. The company is also planning to launch Wi-Fi roaming scratch cards that can be bought through retail outlets to monetized banner space. The scratch cards can be used at Tata Docomo hotspots across India.
Tata Teleservices was the pioneer of the CDMA 1x technology platform in India, embarking on a growth path after the acquisition of Hughes Tele.com (India) [renamed Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra)] by the Tata Group in 2002. Today, Tata Teleservices, along with Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra), has a reach in more than 450,000 towns and villages across the country, with a bouquet of telephony services encompassing Mobile Services, Wireless Desktop Phones, Public Booth Telephony and Wireline Services.