Free Internet to Passengers at Railway Stations (RailWire)
Indian Railway is providing free Wi-Fi Broadband facility to its passengers. This initiative was taken to contribute towards the fulfillment of Digital India dream.
This project has been taken by RailTel Corporation of India Ltd, in collaboration with Google as the technology partner.
The initiative started initially by providing this service to 400 stations around India, but as of now the number has increased to 1600 stations being connected with the fast free Wi-Fi connectivity.
This service has provided numerous benefits to the regular as well as occasional travelers. Many a times we have face the cellular network problems at railway stations, which give a hard challenge to take updates about the train running status and use other Internet services. But RailWire has given the solution to this by providing a fast and free Internet with strong signal quality in its railway platforms and surrounding coverage areas.
People have also started using this service to kill their boring wait time for trains by watching Youtube, listening online musics and many other stuff for entertainment.
There were also some news about some youths using this network for their study and preparation of different competitive exams.
Therefore, we hope that Government will keep taking up initiatives like this and will make this service available to remaining stations soon.
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