More than 23 million people use the railways every day in India.
Mumbai Train Commuters Get Free Wi-Fi And Quickly Log On
Users will have to visit the Wi-Fi section of their smartphone, select the RailWire network, and then open their browser, where they navigate to railwire.co.in. On the website, users will be prompted to their phone number on the Wi-Fi login screen, and then press Receive SMS. Users will receive an SMS message with a 4-digit OTP (one-time password) code, and they will then have to enter the code at the Wi-Fi login screen, and click Done. Users will then be shown a checkmark, which confirms they are connected to the free Wi-Fi.
Giggling groups of students, bored commuters and snack-shop vendors were all logging on Friday January 22,2016 at Mumbai Central Train Station, the first of 400 stations the company plans to eventually reach with the service.
"If my train is leaving, and I need to search, don't know where to go, then immediately I will get the answer," student Divya Patel said excitedly while waiting for a train to her hometown of Ahmedabad in Gujarat.
Free Wi-Fi is rare across India. Most of the country's 300 million Internet users pay for personal access and often rely on slow-loading smartphone connectivity.
With a massive 1.25 billion population in India, including six million new Internet users every month, Silicon Valley tech giants such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft have set sights on expanding in the Indian market.
With more than 23 million people using the railways every day, Google said free Internet in train stations will give high-speed access that many can't afford.
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Google's CEO Sundar Pichai announced in September 2015 Wi-Fi hotspots for 100 railway stations; it will be expanded to 400 next year.
The map shows the first 100 stations that will have high-speed Wi-Fi by the end of 2016
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