{"id":72360,"date":"2020-12-10T10:43:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T05:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=72360"},"modified":"2021-01-06T14:58:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T09:28:05","slug":"cabinet-approves-setting-up-of-public-wifi-networks-under-pm-wani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cabinet-approves-setting-up-of-public-wifi-networks-under-pm-wani\/","title":{"rendered":"PM-WANI: Cabinet approves setting up of public WiFi networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong>\u00a0Union Cabinet has approved a public Wi-Fi access network called PM-WANI (Wi-Fi Access Network Interface).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aim:\u00a0<\/strong>To enable easily accessible public Wi-Fi hotspots spread across the country.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stakeholders:\u00a0<\/strong>PM-WANI will be operated by different players as described herein under:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Public Data Office(PDO)<\/strong>: It will establish, maintain, and operate only WANI compliant Wi-Fi Access Points and deliver broadband services to subscribers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Read Also :-<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-previous-year-questions-gs1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GS Paper 1 Previous year Questions<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Public Data Office Aggregator(PDOA):<\/strong>\u00a0It will be an aggregator of PDOs and perform the functions relating to Authorization and Accounting.<\/li>\n<li><strong>App Provider:\u00a0<\/strong>It will develop an App to register users and discover WANI compliant Wi-Fi hotspots in the nearby area and display the same within the App for accessing the internet service.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Central Registry:\u00a0<\/strong>It will maintain the details of App Providers, PDOAs and PDOs. To begin with, the Central Registry will be maintained by the Centre for Development of Telematic (C-DOT).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Other Features:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>There would be no license fee for providing broadband internet through these public Wi-Fi networks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:\u00a0Union Cabinet has approved a public Wi-Fi access network called PM-WANI (Wi-Fi Access Network Interface). Facts: Aim:\u00a0To enable easily accessible public Wi-Fi hotspots spread across the country. Stakeholders:\u00a0PM-WANI will be operated by different players as described herein under: Public Data Office(PDO): It will establish, maintain, and operate only WANI compliant Wi-Fi Access Points and deliver&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cabinet-approves-setting-up-of-public-wifi-networks-under-pm-wani\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PM-WANI: Cabinet approves setting up of public WiFi networks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[959],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704949592},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}