With 4,791 more stations to cover in less than 100 days, RailTel is on a mission to complete the work of providing Wifi at the railway stations across the Indian Railways network, according to the managing director of the public sector undertaking who added that he was hopeful of meeting the “ambitious” deadline.
In two-and-a-half years, RailTel has covered 1,606 stations, including Mumbai, Howroh, Patna, Shimla, Ranchi, Surat and New Delhi.
“We are working along with Railways and Tata Trust [on the WiFi project], and equipment installation has started. Of course, it is an ambitious target [October 15] but our teams are working day and night,” Puneet Chawla told Hindustan Times.
According to data from RailTel, the total WiFi user logins across 1,606 stations in May was 235 million. The total unique users were 119 million, and a total of 8,781.30 TB data consumed that month.
The data showed that stations in Tier 1 cities such as Kolkata, New Delhi and Mumbai registered a greater number of user logins and data consumption than their Tier 2 counterparts such as Gaya, Solan and Jodhpur. Howrah station alone saw 49 million user logins in one month - the highest in the country.
“Internet in India is largely mobile Internet with a high percentage of users on 2G and 3G, while RailTel sought to bridge the digital divide by providing free and fast Wi-Fi, which also bridges the experience divide where millions of users experience fast access to the Internet for the first time,” Chawla said.
Read more of this news in a report by Faizan Haidar published in Hindustan Times... (Link given below)
Also read our post of 17th April 2019 titled - 1,600 Railway Stations Now Offer Passengers High-Speed Free WiFi.
The link is http://bharatmahan.in/positive-news/1600-railway-stations-now-offer-passengers-highspeed-free
