Bangalore City Railway Station Offers BluFi

The Bangalore City Railway Station on Friday March 2,2012 became the first in the railway network to offer BluFi, a combination of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

The facility was launched by Railtel Corporation of India in collaboration with TeleBrahma, a mobile advertising solutions provider.Telebrahma provides the Bluetooth solution, Railtel offers free Wi-Fi facility.
To get Internet access, passengers should send their mobile numbers through the Wi-Fi registration portal.

The passwords would be sent through SMS. A passenger could use Internet for 45 minutes; if he wished to continue, he had to start a fresh session.

Launching the facility, South Western Railway's Bangalore Divisional Railway Manager Sudhanshu Mani termed it another step to enhance passenger comfort. Bangalore being India's IT capital, it deserved to be the first in the country to offer the facility

B.R. Ravi, Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of TeleBrahma, said that while Bluetooth worked on all Bluetooth-enabled mobiles, Wi-Fi worked on Wi-Fi-enabled handsets and laptops.