Bengaluru’s Wifi Dabba Wants to Beam Broadband to You Using Lasers
Lasers could bring Wi-Fi broadband home at a fraction of the cost of fibre. By Gopal Sathe | Updated: 10 December 2020 09:33 IST
Photo Credit: Wifi Dabba
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The cost is a fraction of deploying underground fibre, it said
Wifi Dabba says it will offer unlimited 1Gbps connections for Rs. 799
Bengaluru-based Wifi Dabba has plans to cover the city in lasers that carry data signals, so that it can provide fast and cheap broadband access without the huge expense and time involved in digging up and laying fibre cables. Gadgets 360 had first spoken to Wifi Dabba back in 2017, when the company was working with kirana stores and paan shops small retailers and kiosks to place dabbas (boxes) in these locations which contained routers, and would offer sachet pricing of Rs. 20 for 1GB of data over Wi-Fi.