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Soon metro train commuters in Chennai to get free entertainment

Posted on: 22/Feb/2019 9:56:22 AM
Don’t feel bad if you have missed watching your favourite stars in action, or films or TV serials due to lack of time etc. Soon you could watch all those mentioned above by travelling also. The important piece of news is soon CMRL would be launching a mobile based entertainment system or app and by this the commuters would be able to watch their favourite films, songs or TV serials for free by the touch of a button. Sound’s incredible isn’t it!!

In-flight entertainment system has been taken as the role model for this upcoming entertainment app from CMRL now. It is now revealed that a commuter must download the app on their smartphone when he or she enters the metro station in Chennai. Trials have been conducted in as many as 3 trains and these trials have been successful. The service would be launched either in the month of March or in early April and the amazing point is Chennai metro train service would be the first in India to have such facility.

There would be wide variety of contents available in the app and these would be of languages like Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and Malayalam. The commuters using metro trains would be able to access these in their smartphones. By either watching it on the app or by downloading the contents and watching it offline within a specific period, the commuters could feel very happy and entertained.

Soon all metro stations, trains and depots, servers would be installed so that this service is obtained without any issue. The point is the commuters after installing the app could connect to the server over Wi-Fi and by this the commuters would be able to watch the contents easily.

The official belonging to CMRL explained how the wireless network that would give access to the content would be different when compared to the WiFi CMRL is planning to install to provide free entertainment for the metro train travellers. Important information is the connectivity that comes with the content would work only on the app and cannot be used to browse the internet.