RailTel Reports 46 Lakh GB of Wi-Fi Data Used at Indian Railway Stations Each Month

Free public Wi-Fi service at Indian railway stations garners over 46 lakh GB of data traffic for RailTel, which manages free public Wi-Fi services available at thousands of Indian railway stations. We got this information from the company at the India Mobile Congress 2023 (IMC 2023) which will be held in Delhi from October 27 to October 29. In fact, RailTel will feed Wi-Fi to the public at the event.

This is a staggering figure and shows the power of a free service that allows millions of people to access the internet at train stations. As you may know, the company partnered with Google to set up Wi-Fi service in more than 400 railway stations, but since 2019, it has managed to reach the number of more than 6,000, which the company now fully manages, operates and maintains.

If you browse RailTel’s website and see the number of stations covered by its free Wi-Fi service, you’ll see that the expansion effort has been impressive, especially since the use of public Wi-Fi networks is considered a security issue by experts.

Most people know RailTel through the Wi-Fi service it started with Google. We were told that Google mainly helped with marketing and setting up the exercise, but RailTel has been the brainchild of the entire train station Wi-Fi operation.

To access the free internet, you just need to login with your mobile number from which you will receive an OTP to start using the Wi-Fi service at the stations. The free Wi-Fi service is available for the first 30 minutes every day at a speed of 1 Mbps, but you also have the option to try the service at a speed of up to 34 Mbps by paying Rs 10 for a day or Rs 75 for a month.

We also knew if RailTel plans to expand its public Wi-Fi service to other stations, for which they did not give any clarity about their future plans.