{"id":1027972,"date":"2026-08-11T09:08:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027972"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T04:29:07","slug":"corporation-restores-free-wi-fi-at-44-locations-in-chennai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/11\/corporation-restores-free-wi-fi-at-44-locations-in-chennai\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporation restores free Wi-Fi at 44 locations in Chennai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The Greater Chennai Corporation has restored free Wi-Fi facilities at 44 locations across Marina beach, Besant Nagar beach, and the Secretariat Park on Monday. Of the 44 locations, 27 are along Marina beach \u2014 between Labour Statue and Lighthouse \u2014 while five are at Besant Nagar beach and 12 at the Secretariat Park. The Wi-Fi poles weer installed five years ago and had eventually stopped functioning. <\/p>\n<p>As part of the first phase, the corporation has taken measures to provide high-quality free Wi-Fi at high-footfall locations, including the Marina, Besant Nagar and Thiruvanmiyur beaches, the Secretariat Park, and other parks and sports grounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The Greater Chennai Corporation has restored free Wi-Fi facilities at 44 locations across Marina beach, Besant Nagar beach, and the Secretariat Park on Monday. Of the 44 locations, 27 are along Marina beach \u2014 between Labour Statue and Lighthouse \u2014 while five are at Besant Nagar beach and 12 at the Secretariat Park. The Wi-Fi poles weer installed five years ago and had eventually stopped functioning. As part of the first phase, the corporation has taken measures to provide high-quality free Wi-Fi at high-footfall locations, including the Marina, Besant Nagar and Thiruvanmiyur beaches, the Secretariat Park, and other parks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028001,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027972\/revisions\/1028001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}