Google's About to Provide Free Wi-Fi to 1600 Indian Railway Stations

April 28, 2019

Author: Birendra Kumar

\Indian Railways accomplishes another achievement! Indian Railways effectively transformed 1,600 railroad stations crosswise over India into RailWire WiFi zones. The national transporter has included 600 railroad stations the WiFi map in a limited ability to focus 10 days. Mumbai's Santacruz rail station situated on rural segment is the 1600th rail station in the nation to approach free open WiFi.

Indian Railways has been endeavoring to accomplish the objective of giving free fast WiFi at all rail stations aside from stop stations inside a year. Indian railway passenger enquiry can check, erail running status etc now. CPRO of Western Railways Ravindra Bhakar has said that Mumbai Suburban Railway has seen the real achievement with the voyage of the RailWire station WiFi venture starting from Mumbai Central. Reay Road turned into the 1000th station to get open WiFi, Bhakar said.

RailTel gives free WiFi at railroad stations through 'RailWire'. RailTel is a Mini Ratna (Category-I) PSU and offers one of the biggest and quickest open WiFi systems at 985 stations with possess/other financing and at 415 An, A1 and C class stations. As of late, RailTel has tied up with Tata Trust to give WiFi at staying 4,791 B,C,D and E classification railroad stations.

Aside from giving the administration at urban-driven railroad stations, Indian Railways said the thought behind giving free WiFi to exceptionally little stations in country just as low populace thickness zones is to give individuals access to cutting edge WiFi office. The simple and minimal effort accessibility of cell phones in the market combined with free WiFi at railroad stations in the country territory will go far in the advanced development for provincial India, Indian Railways said.

The growth of what Google described as "the largest public Wi-Fi project in the world" is in line with the company's expectations. Earlier this year, at the time of the launch, Google had said it aims to be at 100 railway stations by the end of 2016. Udhagamandalam, a town, and municipality in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu is the 100th railway station to get Google's free Wi-Fi in India. The service was available in 52 railway stations as of the end of September. The company plans to bring its free Wi-Fi service to over 400 railway stations eventually. Google is working with state-run ISP RailTel to bring internet connectivity to people. RailTel has optic fiber cable that runs alongside railway tracks covering almost 70 percent of the country.

How to utilize WiFi at Rail stations?

Travelers, who have a cell phone, will approach the RailWire. The cell phone client should switch on the WiFi on their telephone and RailWire landing page arrange consequently shows up. The client must enter the versatile number on this landing page and therefore, an OTP will come on a cell phone. The OTP should be entered to access the fast web.

Indian Railways had signed an MoU with Google in December 2015 to launch the service, which offers thirty minutes of free internet access. The average data consumption per user per session has been recorded around 350MB.

The project has succeeded in its mission of bringing connectivity to millions of unconnected Indians, leveraging on the nationwide optic fiber network backbone created by RailTel, it added.

Within the first year of the project's launch, 100 of the busiest rail.