Bangalore City Railway Station
The Union Minister for Railyways D.V.Sadananda Gowda recently inaugrated the facility.
Bangalore City’s Railway Station has become the first railway station in the country to have WiFi facility that will provide high speed internet to passengers.
The facility has been created by RailTel with a gigabit ethernet network using optic fibre in a ring. RailTel has been mandated by Railyways to provide WiFi facility at major railway stations.
‘RailWire’ the retail broadband distribution of RailTel Corporation of India (a PSU of Ministry of Railways) is the powering engine for distribution internet bandwith through WiFi.
Free of Cost:
The WiFi facility will be available to the passengers on their mobile phones free of charge for the first 30 minutes.
Subsequently the user can purchase scratch cards for additional usage. The scratch cards are to be priced Rs 25 for 30 minutes and Rs 35 for one hour with a validity of 24 hours.