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Vijayawada, Vizag & Kacheguda WiFi enabled rail stations
After free WiFi took off at Mumbai Central in January this year where one lakh people use the service per week, the service started at Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam and Kacheguda railways stations on Friday.
New Delhi/ Hyderabad: After free WiFi took off at Mumbai Central in January this year where one lakh people use the service per week, the service started at Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam and Kacheguda railways stations on Friday.
Apart from the railway stations mentioned above, users will be able to access the network using their smart phones in Pune, Bhubaneswar, Bhopal, Ranchi, Raipur and Ernakulam junction. The formal launch in Bhubaneswar is slated for Sunday, said a senior railway ministry official.
Google in collaboration with RailTel, the telecom arm of the Indian Railways, has rolled out free WiFi service at these nine stations, taking the total to ten where it will offer high-speed internet to an estimated 1.5 million passengers and visitors.
Google and RailTel have collaborated to make WiFi network available across 100 stations to deliver high-speed Internet
to 10 million a day by the end of the year.
Jaipur, Ujjain and Allahabad will go live next week. "The network is now live in 10 key stations and will enable about 1.5 million people to access high-speed Internet service," said Google official Gulzar Azad. RailTel owns a pan-India optic fibre network exclusively on railway track.
It has laid out over 45,000 km of optic fibre network across the country, which Google looks to utilise for its WiFi. The network is built for a wide coverage and high-capacity usage unlike a typical WiFi hotspot which offers connectivity in limited area.
As per the plan, RailTel will be the ISP while Google will provide the wireless area network (WAN) and set up points of access at platforms.
