Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, has revealed ambitious plans to connect millions in India to WiFi across 400 train stations.
Speaking from his experience as a child, he sees a huge opportunity in bringing the next 1 billion people online, after connecting 100 million to the internet for the first time last year.
Working with Indian Railways, which operates one of the world’s largest railway networks, and RailTel, which provides Internet services as RailWire via its extensive fiber network along many of these railway lines, our Access & Energy team plans to bring the first stations online in the coming months. The network will expand quickly to cover 100 of the busiest stations in India before the end of 2016, with the remaining stations following in quick succession.
Aside from China, India has the largest internet population, and this project will connect 10 million people who pass through the railways stations every day.
Source: Google
