Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu at the launch of the service at Mumbai Central Station
On Friday, Google and RailTel announced the launch of the free Wi-Fi service at 9 more stations across the country.
Mumbai Central was the first station in the country to receive the free Wi-Fi in January. At the time, Google had announced it’s plans of rolling out the service across 100 stations, of the total 400 planned, by end of 2016.
The 9 new stations were the facility was launched are:
- Bhubaneswar
- Bhopal
- Ernakulum Jn
- Kacheguda
- Pune
- Ranchi
- Raipur
- Vijayawada
- Vishakhapatnam
Google’s Wi-Fi service is built over RaiTel’s fibre network and designed to offer a high-speed broadband experience.
Google, in an email statement, said that it is committed to work with Indian Railways and RailTel to deliver high-speed Wi-Fi network that will be available to 10 million Indians a day by the end of 2016.