Google's India Wi-Fi Rail Project Set to Double -- Market Talk
November 22 2017 - 1:15AM
Dow Jones News
0545 GMT - Google will extend its Wi-Fi services to 400 railway
stations in India by the end of next year to tap the country's
growing internet usage. The company now covers 216 stations,
servicing more than 7 million users daily, says Google India chief
Rajan Anandan. RailTel Railwire is a joint initiative of Google and
Indian Railways. Once implemented, the expansion will make it 1 of
the world's largest public Wi-Fi projects, says the RailTel
website. Anandan notes India currently has about 300 million
smartphone users, a figure seen jumping 50% by 2020.
(debiprasad.nayak@wsj.com)
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November 22, 2017 01:00 ET (06:00 GMT)
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