Google To Offer Wi-Fi Services At 400 Stations Across India
A day after tech giant Google come out with proposal to setup Wi-Fi network across railway stations in India, followed by Modi visit to the company headquarters on Sunday.
The RailTel Corporation, a railways PSU unit, announced partnership with US tech giant Google to setup high speed wi-fi network across 400 railway stations in India. “Railway stations being places of human aggregation of all sections of society are ideal places to bridge the digital divide. With high penetration of smartphones, the station Wi-Fi could become locations where people can get initiated into experiencing broadband and digital literacy,”
Once the project comes to reality and starts providing internet services, people in the railway station can access to high speed wi-fi services capable to provide HD video streaming services and passengers will be able to download a movie in 4 minutes before they embark on long journeys.
Besides just providing internet services to railway users, the RaiTel said, it is planning to bring the station ecosystem under purview of Internet of Things (IOT) by leveraging Google setup high speed wi-fi network, allowing vendors to offer customer services and Railways to internally.
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