New Delhi, August 20: Ministry of Railways has successfully provided high speed and free ‘RailWire’ WiFi service at 3,000 stations.
The Ellenabad railway station which falls under the Bikaner Division of the North Western Railway zone, became the 3000th station in the country to be equipped with free public RailWire WiFi, according to a recent official release issued by Indian Railways.
In the first week of this month, the 2000th station to have been equipped with free WiFi service was the Rana Pratap Nagar railway station which also falls under the NWR zone.
With the recent feat of providing WiFi at the 3000th station, RailTel has completed the task of providing free, high-speed WiFi at 1000 stations in just a span of 15 days. RailTel is working to provide fast and free WiFi service at all railway stations across the network, except the halt stations, in less than two months.
The free WiFi facility was made live at 1,600 stations in the first phase. RailTel has now roped in Tata Trust for providing free WiFi at remaining stations across the country. Puneet Chawla, Chairman and Managing Director, RailTel has said that the PSU is going full throttle for providing the WiFi service at all the assigned stations across the network.
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