pune come august passengers waiting at the pune airport lounge will be able to connect their laptopspalmtopsmobiles to the internet without bothering about the telephone wires whats more they wont even have to pay for it not at least this yearas a part of its pilot project to provide connectivity using wireless fidelity wifi technology bharat sanchar nigam limited bsnl is planning to make the city airport a hotspot this is a runup to the companys planned nationwide commercial wifi launch we are talking to authorities and expect to launch the wifi service at pune airport in two to three weeks time gk agarwal principal general manager of bsnl pune saidthe service will be free in the pilot stage till it is commercially launched he said the idea is to let existing and potential customers experience broadband wireless connectivity a wifi network can be used to connect computers to each other to the internet and to wired networks the technology allows computers to send and receive data from anywhere within the range of a base station it can connect buildings and can be extended to pubic areas like restaurants and airports too bsnl has already invited tenders centrally from system integrators si for the purpose the si is likely to be a bsnl franchisee and its face to the publiccommercial launch will happen soon after the corporate office finalises the various modalities like the payment charging mechanism and the authentication according to agarwal that process will take three to four months he said it would initially be limited to commercial establishments and public places but may move to residences at a later stage he addedwhile bsnl will use its own leased lines and internet network for the connectivity it will have to outsource certain services like a radio survey to decide where the access points should be located and products like access points at its first hotspot operational at bsnls bajirao road office mahindra british telecom has done the radio survey while the access points came from dlink and the router from cisco