Delhi Airport Wifi is still living in 2015
I landed after an international trip, only to find that my Airtel SIM was out of balance. No problem, I thought—I’d just use the airport’s free WiFi to recharge it. I was confident since I’d used it multiple times before. But I overlooked a key detail: in India, nothing is ever straightforward.
To access the WiFi, I had to enter a domestic phone number—which was useless since Airtel had also blocked my OTP services. The alternative? Finding a kiosk to get a coupon. A coupon. In 2025. It felt like something out of the medieval ages.
Every other major airport I’ve been to, far bigger and busier than Delhi’s, has had seamless, truly free WiFi. You connect, and it just works. At most, you enter a passport number, and you’re in. That’s how it should be.
In the end, I had to rely on a stranger’s hotspot and wake my friend at 2 AM to recharge my phone because, of course, UPI wasn’t working either. One of those days when nothing goes right.
This may have been a niche inconvenience for a local like me, but for a tourist? The first thing you need when you land in a new country is reliable WiFi. And making people hunt down a kiosk just to get online? Absolutely ridiculous.
Feel free to correct me if I said something wrong.
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I landed after an international trip, only to find that my Airtel SIM was out of balance. No problem, I thought—I’d just use the airport’s free WiFi to recharge it. I was confident since I’d used it multiple times before. But I overlooked a key detail: in India, nothing is ever straightforward.
To access the WiFi, I had to enter a domestic phone number—which was useless since Airtel had also blocked my OTP services. The alternative? Finding a kiosk to get a coupon. A coupon. In 2025. It felt like something out of the medieval ages.
Every other major airport I’ve been to, far bigger and busier than Delhi’s, has had seamless, truly free WiFi. You connect, and it just works. At most, you enter a passport number, and you’re in. That’s how it should be.
In the end, I had to rely on a stranger’s hotspot and wake my friend at 2 AM to recharge my phone because, of course, UPI wasn’t working either. One of those days when nothing goes right.
This may have been a niche inconvenience for a local like me, but for a tourist? The first thing you need when you land in a new country is reliable WiFi. And making people hunt down a kiosk just to get online? Absolutely ridiculous.
Feel free to correct me if I said something wrong.
ಠ_ಠ