Google And Railtel Ties up and Launched Free Public Wifi at Mumbai Central Railways and had set their goal to cover 400 Busiest rail stations to Provide free wi-fi in India
Recently, on Friday 22 jan 2016, Indian Railway's arm Railtel announced the availability of free high speed public wi-fi service at the Mumbai Central Railways Service station. this is the first step towrds the Digitalisation in india with the help of Google.
Commenting on the launch of railtel wi-fi, Representative of RailTel Shri R. K. Bahuguna said, "Our intent was to fulfil Indian Railway's vision of providing Railway passengers access to high speed Internet through our optical fibre communication network. Affordable smartphones have made it possible for the common men to experience the power of Internet. With our partnership with Google, we are very confident of rolling out a robust, scalable service at Railway stations in the near future.".
Railtel-a unit of Indian Railways, aims towards the ambitious programme "Project Nilgiri" to power its free wifi project in over 400 railway stations across the country-the largest public wifi project in india. also, the cost will be spend by the railtel will be nearly 55 Crores.
out of 400 Railway stations 100 stations will be ready by 2016 end, starting with Mumbai Central in October 2015.
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but, with some delay google had completed his promise on 22 jan 2016. this deal is Officially announced by Sundar Pichai in a blogpost to provide free basic internet services to the busiest railwys of india like Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, and Bangalore.
free wi-fi has some limitations over it.The free wi-fi is available only for 30 minutes over a 24-hour period for each user, after the time duration users have to purchase extra browsing time online using a credit card or buy a scratch card at the Wi-Fi helpdesk at the stations. For 30 minutes of extra browsing time Customers have to pay Rs 25 and for 1 hour the price is Rs 35, and these are valid for 24 hours. and hope that will be same for next 4 set-ups for Railtel's free wi-fi of 4 busy stations of india which are Allahabad, Patna, Jaipur and Ranchi Said by the Gulzar Azad, Head of Access Project, Google India.
The project estimated to provide free Wi-Fi to 10 million people who pass through every day. Google will cover the so called A and A1 class of stations.
Railtel has built over 45,000 km of optic fibre network across the railways network in India, connecting over 4,500 cities and towns and over 5,000 railway stations in the country to provide wi-fi service in india.
How to log in to RailTel's free public Wi-Fi:
- Go to the Wi-Fi Settings of smartphone, and ON your WI-FI then select the RailWire network.
- then open your mobile browser, and then go to "railwire.co.in".
- On the RailWire website, users will be prompted to their phone number on the Wi-Fi login screen, and then press Receive SMS.
- Now, you will receive an SMS message with a 4-digit OTP code, and then enter the code at the Wi-Fi login screen, and click Done.
- After Successful login users can see a checkmark, which confirms they are connected to the free WiFi.
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The Wi-fi Speed is as High as in the Developed Country Provides to their civilians Instead of Poor experience of wi-fi hotspot service trends in India. this service will Ahead up the Digital India project One Step more. the Credit Goes to this Brilliant project of the Free Public WI-FI Provide to the Indian Railways for their support and vision to provide a world class high speed public Wi-Fi network at the stations and also the Google to promote Internet in India.
