Building on its public WiFi collaboration with RailTel, Google has launched Google Station, a public WiFi platform which allows other venues and locations to become partners with the company to provide high speed Internet. "We asked ourselves, why stop at railway stations. What if we could bring connectivity to more people? By getting wifi into more alls, bus stops, city centers, cafes, million more will be able to learn and find info they need, not just in India but anywhere," Caesar Sengupta, vice president for product development said at an event in Delhi. Currently, Google is live in 52 stations including Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus. The company added that more than 3.5 million users are using the RailWire WiFi every month. "Among them, around 15000 are coming online for the first time every single day is our estimate," Sengupta said. He added that the average usage per user is 600 Mb on a 30 minute free connection. Google Station says that it will be taking care of managing the network, customizing on boarding of users, KYC. The company added that Google Station will provide a single unified login. Sengupta said that company will offer different means to monetize. "Some will make it free, some show ads, some will charge users," he added. TRAI’s WiFi consultation paper Google Station's launch takes importance as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) took notice of the growing number of public WIFi services, and floated a public WiFi consultation paper last month, asking “how do we get WiFi hotposts…
