GUWAHATI:: RailTel Corporation of India Ltd., a Miniratna PSU Under Ministry of Railways, has successfully turned 68 railways stations of Northeast Frontier Railways (NFR) into free Wi-Fi Zone out of which 23 stations were completed in a record time of one month. The Wi-Fi has proved to be a boon for the passengers of NFR and in the month of February 2019, a total number of 614397 user logins and 278.88 TB aggregated data consumptions have been recorded in the stations of NF Railways
Wi-Fi services to passengers are being provided under ‘RailWire’- the retail Broadband initiative of RailTel. Designed to offer users the best Internet experience, RailWire Wi-Fi will be available to any user who has a smartphone with working mobile connection for KYC considerations.
To use the Wi-Fi the user has to switch on the Wi-Fi mode in the smartphone and select the RailWire Wi-Fi network. After the RailWire homepage network automatically appears on the smartphone, the user has to enter his or her mobile number on this homepage. The user will get one-time password (OTP) in form of SMS in the message box which has to be entered in the home page of RailWire. After entering OTP Users will be able to access high speed internet & can start internet browsing.
Talking about the Wi-Fi at the stations of NF Railway, Sanjive Roy, GM, NFR, said “Northeast Frontier Railways is an important zone of Indian Railways. Wi-Fi at 68 stations of this zone is proving to be really helpful for the passengers. The response to the Wi-Fi at Railway stations of N F Railways has been phenomenal. With number of stations increasing with each passing day the Wi-Fi facility is reaching more and more people.’
Pan India RailTel has successfully completed work of turning 1000 railways stations across the country into Free Wi-Fi zone. With a vision of turning Railway stations into a platform for Digital inclusion, RailTel Corporation of India Ltd, a Mini Ratna CPSU under the Ministry of Railways, started providing high speed Wi-Fi service at Railway stations. The journey started in January 2016 from Mumbai Central station in Maharashtra being the first station to have the fast & free RailWire Wi-Fi and in a span of mere 2 years 3 months RailTel has completed 1000 stations.
In the month of February 2019, the total number of unique users of station Wi-Fi across the country was 11577141 and aggregated data consumption was 9065.27 TB.