Last Updated: October 28, 2023, 14:38 IST
Railway stations in India get free public Wi-Fi service
RailTel began its public Wi-Fi with Google in India however now fully runs the operations throughout 1000’s of stations.
Free public Wi-Fi service at railway stations in India garners over 46 lakh GB of information consumption for RailTel, the corporate which manages the free public Wi-Fi companies which can be obtainable at 1000’s of railway stations in India. We acquired these particulars from the corporate on the India Mobile Congress 2023 (IMC 2023) that’s occurring in Delhi from October 27 to October 29. In reality, RailTel is powering the Wi-Fi community for the general public on the occasion.
(*46*)This is a staggering determine and reveals the facility of free service that permits thousands and thousands of individuals to entry the web on the railway stations. As you could be conscious, the corporate labored with Google to arrange Wi-Fi service at over 400 railway stations however after 2019, it has managed to get the quantity nicely above 6000 that are actually fully managed, operated and run by the corporate.
If you flick thru the RailTel web site and see the variety of stations coated by its free Wi-Fi service, you will notice the enlargement work has been spectacular, particularly when utilizing public Wi-Fi networks are seen as a safety concern by consultants.
Most folks find out about RailTel by its Wi-Fi service that it began with Google. We had been knowledgeable that Google principally helped with the advertising and organising train however RailTel has been the brainchild of the whole Wi-Fi operations on the railway stations.
To entry the free web, you simply must register along with your cell quantity on which you’re going to get an OTP to begin utilizing the Wi-Fi service on the stations. The free Wi-Fi service is out there for the primary half-hour of utilization day by day at 1Mbps pace however you even have the choice to check out the service at speeds as much as 34Mbps by paying Rs 10 for a day or Rs 75 for one month.
We additionally enquired if RailTel plans to increase its public Wi-Fi service to additional stations, to which, they didn’t give any readability about their plans for the longer term.
