RailTel Corporation of India, a Public Sector Company Undertaking by Ministry of Indian Railways is all over the news portals recently. The Economic Times recently published this news that RailTel is planning to install wi-fi at near about 500 Railway Stations. But this news was published back in Oct. 2006 on RailTel's website. Right after this news, RailTel also published a news about providing internet access on running trains. According to the site, RailTel has successfully carried out tests on a few long distance trains and the results says that passengers could experience seamless connectivity on running trains.
The targetted trains would be Rajdhani Express, Shatabdi Express and Jan Shatabdi Express. "With the help of local area network (LAN), Railtel hopes to provide Internet services to passengers in all important mail and express trains," said a senior RailTel offical. The company also proposed to start Cyber Cafes on stations. One of the Cyber Cafe has already been launched at Gorakhpur Railway Station.Under the new system, a wireless LAN is to be created in the coaches through a transmitter placed inside them. Besides, a roof-mounted antenna would catch the signal from towers which are to be set up at railway stations. Thus, passengers can use their own laptops to login as well.If this happens, business class passengers would be benifited from this feature. Stay connected all time. Cities, trains, stations are becoming wi-fi enabled. But the question is, when are we getting the actual broadband connection in households? People are still suffering from low bandwidth and slow internet connections.
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