Google Station Free WiFi Initiative Reaches 400 Stations in India
Jun. 7, 2018In a recentblog postregarding the initiative, Google has announced that the company has now achieved what it first set out to accomplish. The Dibrugarh railway station in Assam, which was recently added to the Google Station initiative, is the 400th station in India to have received free WiFi access.
Google’s VP for the Next Billion Users team, Caesar Sengupta, also revealed that over 8 million people in the country go online with Google Station each month. Talking about their usage trends, Sengupta wrote:
“On average, people consume 350MB of data per session, roughly the size of a half hour television episode and over half of the people using Google Station engage in multiple online sessions a day.”
Since the company has already achieved the target of reaching 400 stations, it now plans to take the free public WiFi initiative beyond stations and into cities. Earlier this year in January, the company extended the Google Station initiative to150 locations in Pune, in partnership with Larsen & Toubro. The project has brought free WiFi access to a number of gardens, hospitals and police stations across the city. The Google Station initiative has also reached Indonesia and Mexico, with plans to bring it to even more countries in the near future.
It’s worth noting that while Google’s initiative offers free WiFi at all locations, the company introduced newpaid premium tiersat select railway stations across the country.
