Google today announced that it has rolled out of Railwire Wi-Fi at Udhagamandalam (Ooty), which is 100th railway station to get its Wi-Fi services in India, as it had promised. “With over 5 million monthly users, the Google Railtel Wifi is helping millions of Indians discover the benefits of Internet with 15000 first time users connecting to the network everyday,” said the company.
Google already said that it will launch high-speed Wifi across 400 stations in India in partnership with Railtel. Today it said that it will continue to deploy the high speed Wi-Fi in the next 300 stations.
In addition to this, Google has recently introduced Google Station, which gives partners an easy set of tools to roll-out Wi-Fi hotspots in public places.
Regarding the roll-out of high-speed Railwire Wi-Fi at the 100th station in India, Gulzar Azad, Country Head – Connectivity, Google India said:
We’re really excited about reaching this milestone and it is an incredible feeling to look back and see how far we’ve come since we announced that we were partnering with Indian Railways and RailTel to provide Wi-Fi at 400 railway stations throughout the country. But what has really inspired us are the stories of how people are using this high-speed access to the full and open Internet. They’re using Railwire Wi-Fi to be more productive with their time and to get things done more efficiently.