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High speed Wifi in 5 more railway stations
Posted on: 10/May/2016 12:00:36 PM
In an official release, Google announced the launch of its free high speed public WiFi service at the railway stations in Ujjain, Jaipur, Patna, Guwahati and Allahabad.
The release said, This is in continuation with its project to provide high-speed public WiFi service at 100 Railway stations across India by end of the year. Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhu will formally inaugurate the service at these stations soon. (We have) been deploying the service over the extensive fibre network of Indian Railway’s arm Railtel which provides Internet services as RailWire. With these launches, the service is now live and available to users at 15 stations across the country. (We) will deploy the service in Dadar, Bandra Terminus , Churchgate, Thane, Kalyan, Panvel, Vashi, Kurla, Chattrapati Shivaji Terminus, Borivali and a few others. Google is committed to working with Indian Railways and Railtel to deliver high-speed WiFi network that will be available to 10 million Indians by the end of the year, covering 100 of the busiest train stations in India. The project will be eventually rolled out to cover 400 train stations across India.
A Google official said, We’re seeing incredible usage of the WiFi service across the stations and over 2.5 lakhs users are using the service every week, demonstrating more than 2x growth in less than a month.
Currently, the Railtel - Google free high speed WiFi service is available at Mumbai Central, Pune, Bhubaneshwar, Bhopal, Ranchi, Raipur, Vijayawada, Kacheguda, Ernakulum Junction, Vishakhapatnam, Jaipur, Patna, Guwahati, Ujjain and Allahabad.
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