For the convenience of travellers at Bhopal railway station free Wi-Fi service was introduced on Monday. This service was started by a Railway Ministry enterprise Railtel along with Google. There are a total of 34 access points and 15 access switches installed to enable this service in the zone.
The Wi-Fi service will be available at all the platforms and public places of the railway station. Under this project, by the end of the year 2016, hundred platforms will be made Wi-Fi enabled. Besides the State Capital the other cities of the State that would be covered under this project are Jabalpur, Ujjain and Gwalior.
While talking to mediapersons Railway Spokesperson IA Siddiqui said that the Railway Ministry has given the responsibility of turning all the A1, A, and B class railway stations into a Wi-Fi enabled zone to Railtel Corporation. Railtel with the help of Google has planned to cover 400 railway station under this project. Railtel will primarily install a backbone network with 1 GB capacity and also make power and fiber network available till the platforms. The construction of the network will be carried out through Google Radio SS.
Siddiqui said that this is a special broad band service by Railtel that is being provided through Railwire. Till now it was only installed at five stations which included Mumbai, Bhubaneswar, Raipur, Vijaywada and Kachiguda. On Monday along with Bhopal it was also started at Jaipur and Ujjain.
Siddiqui further said that under this project, Railtel and Google will start this service at 400 railway stations out of which 100 will be completed by December 2016 and the remaining by the end of the year 2017.
On this occasion, Bhopal Member of Parliament Alok Sanjar, Mayor Alok Sharma, legislators Vishwas Sarang and Arif Aqueel and many Railway officials were present.