RailTel plans to install Wi-Fi at 500 Rly stns

NEW DELHI: In order to provide Internet and Cybercafe facilities, RailTel is preparing to install advanced Wi-Fi systems at 500 Railway stations across the country.

"Though we are preparing to install Wi-Fi System at 500 stations across the country, initially we will be doing so at 50 stations," K K Bajpayee, Managing Director of the RailTel told reporters here.

He said one such system would be first provided at Bangalore Railway station, which would be operational within the next two-to-three months followed by Jaipur.

Bajpayee said "Airlink", a Bangalore based company, has signed an agreement with US based Rontog to provide technical know-how for the system.

Once in operation, the system would provide Internet and Cybercafe facilities not only at the stations but within at least one km radius around the station it was installed.

In reply to a question if such a system could be operationalised in a moving train, the RailTel Managing Director said "definiotely it could be possible. It could be possible by eracting towers on the route".

However, he made it clear that at present there was no no such move to eract towers to provide Wi-Fi facilities in a moving train but it could be be possible after two-to-three years time from now.

Bajpayee said RailTel was also in the process of shifting Passenger Reservation System (PRS), Freight Operations Information system (FOIS), Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS), for train operations and Control communication on the OFC and MPLS network of RailTel.