Under the 'Digital India initiative', Railways is committed to provide better internet facilities to the passengers at 100 busiest stations by the end of this year. (File photo)
Expanding the high speed Internet network facility, Railways will launch the Google's free Wi-Fi service at Vijayawada, Kachiguda and Raipur stations tomorrow. Last month, Wi-Fi service was launched at Bhubaneswar station.
Designed to offer passengers the best internet experience, Wi-Fi will be available to any user who has a smartphone.
"Trial of the Wi-FI is going on for some time at these stations and it will be launched on May 5 through video conferencing here," a senior Railway Ministry official said. Before Bhubaneswar, Google's free Wi-Fi service was launched in the Mumbai Central.
Passengers would be able to stream high definition videos while waiting for their respective trains at the railway station with Wi-Fi becoming operational.
Under the 'Digital India initiative', Railways is committed to provide better internet facilities to the passengers at 100 busiest stations by the end of this year.
Railtel, a PSU of the Railways, in collaboration with Google is providing free Wi-Fi service at stations.
Eventually, the service will be rolled out at 400 stations across the country covering all major rail premises.
Railtel owns a Pan-India optic fiber network exclusively on railway track. It has laid out over 45,000 km of optic fibre networks across the country, which Google will utilise for its Wi-Fi.
The network is built for wide coverage and high capacity usage unlike a typical Wi-Fi hotspot which offers connectivity in limited area.
As per the plan, Railtel will be the ISP, while Google will provide the Wireless Area Networks (WAN) and will set-up the points of access at platforms.