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Google & RailTel’s WiFi now has 300,000 weekly users

Google and RailTel’s high speed free WiFi service on railway stations has crossed 300,000 users per week, Google said in a blog post. Additionally, the company has expanded the WiFi service to cover Allahabad, Jaipur, Patna and Ujjain Junction stations. Interestingly, Google mentions that it will look to expand the WiFi to 17 suburban train stations in Mumbai, including Bandra Terminus, Borivali, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Churchgate, Dadar, Kalyan, Kurla, Panvel, Thane and Vashi, by the end of this year. Overall, the company expects to cover 90 stations by the end of this year, and 400 in total. Note that earlier this month Google and RailTel extended their high speed free WiFi service to nine cities. This would include the railway stations of Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Ernakulam Junction, Kacheguda, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Vijaywada and Vishakhapatnam. The initiative had initially launched in January starting with Mumbai Central station, and would be available for all users with an active mobile connection. In September 2015, Google announced that it would tie-up with the Indian Railways and RailTel to provide high speed WiFi coverage in 400 stations.  RailTel owns a pan-India optic fibre network exclusively on railway track. It has laid out over 45,000 kms of optic fibre network across the country, which Google looks to utilize for its WiFi. At the time, Google did not say how it will actually make the platform self-sustainable. The public Wifi space has been really picking up steam in India, although questions over security and privacy remain. The rising…

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