MahaKumbh 2025: How HFCL Kept 660 Million Pilgrims Seamlessly Connected

At the MahaKumbh Mela 2025, India’s largest mobile operator faced an extraordinary challenge: how to keep millions of daily visitors connected in the world’s biggest temporary city, without overwhelming cellular networks. With peak concurrent users and heavy data consumption, traditional infrastructure alone would have fallen short.

HFCL stepped in with a full end-to-end solution. Using its indigenous Wi-Fi Access Points, Unlicensed Band Radios, Managed Switches, and Centralized VMS, HFCL created a city-wide Mobile Data Offload (MDO) and wireless backhaul network. The result was a 99.9% uptime connectivity fabric that didn’t just keep pilgrims online, but also empowered real-time surveillance, crowd management, and civic safety.

• How HFCL designed a high-capacity network to handle 250,000+ concurrent connections without service drops.
• Why Wi-Fi offload became the backbone of uninterrupted voice and data services during the 45-day mega-event.
• The dual role of the network, keeping pilgrims connected with families while enabling authorities to manage security at scale.
  

Tune in to hear how HFCL united tradition and technology at MahaKumbh 2025, redefining what’s possible in mobile network deployments at extreme scale.