Google initiative in 400 Indian Railway Stations

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Fri, Jun 08, 2018, 01:00 PM

Google initiative in 400 Indian Railway Stations

New Delhi, June 08: The Tech giant search engine, Google said on Thursday that it has rolled out free public WiFi at 400 Indian railway stations successfully 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, and Dibrugarh in Assam has become 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 first 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 80 lakhs 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.

The service, which offers thirty minutes of free access to the internet, saw users consuming about 350 MB of data per session on an average.