The civic body plans to repair existing non-functional poles and install nearly 120 new ones across ChennaiChennai: The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) has begun efforts to revive the city’s free Wi-Fi initiative, five years after several of its smart poles stopped functioning. The civic body plans to repair existing non-functional poles and install nearly 120 new ones across Chennai. At Marina Beach, several of the Wi-Fi poles have remained unused for so long that bird nests have appeared on some of them. The existing poles at Marina are spaced around 70-80 metres apart, between the Labour Statue and the lighthouse. However, the corporation does not plan to extend the free Wi-Fi usage limit beyond 45 minutes a day per user ID, citing the need to prevent misuse.