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Indian Railways Wi-Fi Indian Railways decided to provide Wi-Fi Broadband facility to Rail users at major Railway stations as part of PM's Digital India initiative. Following are the details of Wi - Fi in Indian Railways. RailTel has taken a lead in providing fast Wi-Fi for the use of passengers at A1, A category Railway stations. RailTel roped in Google as the technology partner for setting up fast Wi-Fi network initially covering 400 stations for providing fast Wi Fi to millions of passengers everyday. Wi-Fi services to passengers are being provided under ‘Railwire’, the retail Broadband distribution model of RailTel. Designed to offer users the best Internet experience, Railwire Wi-Fi will be available to any user who has a working mobile connection on a smartphone. Railway stations are the places where the cross section of the society is available. This initiative is part of bridging the digital divide and providing high speed access network to all rail users with financial inclusion of Local Cable Operators. This facility shall provide our railway passengers to remain connected while waiting for the train. They can also use this facility for streaming High Density Videos, do their office work online etc. RailTel shall be providing high speed end to end network connectivity on Fiber, Google shall be providing the Radio Access Network along with Technology support. Once implemented this shall be one of the largest public Wi-Fi project in the World.The Wi-Fi service shall provide high speed connectivity for viewing uninterrupted high definition video, download of movies, songs, games by the passengers at Railway station. Wi-Fi at Railway Stations All 15 Kashmir Valley Railway Stations, including Srinagar, have now got integrated with 6021 Station Wi-Fi Network of Indian Railways.Public Wi-Fi, provided under the brand name of RailWire, is available at 15 stations (Baramula, Hamre, Pattan, Mazhom, Budgam, Srinagar, Pampore, Kakapora, Avantipura, Panzgam, Bijbehara, Anantnag, Sadura, Qazigund, Banihal) of UT of Kashmir which are spread out in four District HQs – Srinagar, Budgaon, Banihal & Qazigund.Wi-fi was already available at 15 stations in the Union Territory of Jammu -Kathua, Budhi, Chhan Arorian, Hira Nagar, Ghagwal, Samba, Vijaypur, Bari Brahman, Jammu Tawi, Bajalta, Sangar, Manwal, Ram Nagar. https://twitter.com/PiyushGoyal/status/1406528575818240000?ref_srctwsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1406528575818240000%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_urlhttps%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FPiyushGoyal2Fstatus2F1406528575818240000widget%3DTweet Wi-Fi based Internet Facility has been provided at 5957 railway stations in the country till now. Indian Railway announced via Press release on 10.03.2021.RailTel has submitted a proposal to DoT for leveraging its network in rural India and its collaborative broadband services model to provide PM Wani-enabled community Wi-Fi services.RailTel has a high capacity backbone like 10 Gigabits per second at Railway stations where OFC has been commissioned.Implementation time will be based on acceptance of the proposal & its terms & conditions by DOT. https://twitter.com/PiyushGoyal/status/1163407385383321602 https://twitter.com/RailMinIndia/status/1163408837019258880 https://twitter.com/WesternRly/status/1167028050241835008 4 Simple Steps for getting fast free Wi-Fi You can connect to Free Wifi on google via following simple steps. Search for Wifi networks from Mobile or Laptop etc.Go to wi-fi setting and select the railwire network. Open an Internet Browser, then go to railwire.co.in websiteEnter your Phone Number in Wi-Fi Login Screen. Click on to the RECEIVE SMS button, Now you will receive one OTP.Enter this OTP on the column provided. That's all now you can able to surf Free on Internet. List of Railway Stations having Wi-Fi facility Railway Stations having Wi-Fi facility are following Back To Top ^

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