Speaking on the occasion the Minister said that MTNL would provide Wi-Fi connectivity to all the hostels at its own cost to ensure that students, staff, and faculty are able to access Internet anywhere in the hostels. To ensure good coverage and good quality of service, MTNL has set-up four additional 3G towers on campus to cover the sprawling JNU Campus. The capital expenditure for this is being incurred by MTNL as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility, he added. Announcing that shortly all MTNL users in JNU would also be able to make free calls to each other, the Minister said students will have to pay only Rs.199 in place of Rs. 599 per month, MTNL's commercial rate for this -service and will also be able to access internet service using high speed browsing. Cautioning MTNL and JNU authorities on the misuse of the facility the Minister asked to ensure safety and security of the network.

Vice Chancellor Prof. Bhattacharya said that Academic Resources, such as journals containing research publications are shifting to the use of digital media with online access - for which the university's subscriber cost is over four crore rupees per year and new technologies were being explored to disseminate them to large research student and faculty base. The MTNL solution is elegantly designed to link the university LAN with its MPLS 3G infrastructure that permits roaming access to these resources.

Using this facility the students will be able to access the various journals, research articles and other literature-resource available with JNU from any place in the campus including the hostels, canteen etc. and also when they are outside the Campus or even travelling outside. The Vice Chancellor, faculty, Chairman, MTNL and other senior officers of MTNL were present on the occasion.