Internet related News · 2018-06-07

Google has finished rolling out free WiFi to 400 rail stations in India – News

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Google has said it has rolled out free public WiFi at 400 Indian railway stations in collaboration with RailTel.

Launched as a key initiative under Digital India programme, the service was kicked off from Mumbai Central station in January 2016. Dibrugarh in Assam became the 400th station to go ‘live’ on Thursday, Google said in a statement.

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

Within the 1st year of the project’s launch, 100 of the busiest railway stations across India were brought Online, enabling 15,000 people to experience the Internet for the first time every day, it said.

“With over 8 million monthly unique users connecting to the network, this is a lighthouse project for India and every growing economy that is looking to bring the benefit of connectivity to everyone in their country,” Google India Director Partnership Next Billion Users K Suri said.


 

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