New Delhi: The Telecommunication wing of the Indian Railway, RailTel, in collaboration with Google plans to provide free wifi service to nine more railwaystations in India. The decision was taken after its first attempt to offer free WiFi at Mumbai Central became a huge success with over one lakh users perweek.
Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Ranchi, Raipur, Pune, Vijayawada, Kacheguda (Hyderabad),Vishakhapatnam and Kochi are the key stations selected. Thus, Ernakulam Junction becomes the tenth railway station in the country to receive free WiFi service.
Internet service will be provided by RailTel; Google offers the wireless area network (WAN) and set up points of access at platforms.
Google-RailTel partnership aims to offer high-speed internet access to 10 million commuters across 100 stations by the end of the year. “This project will be the largest publicly accessible high-speed WiFi network in the country ”, says Gulzar Azad, Head of Access Project , Google India.
