The benefit of free Wi-Fi facility will no longer be available in trains, Railway Minister said.
Railways have canceled a project to facilitate internet connection to passengers in trains. The reason behind that, the railways do not find this project beneficial or cost-effective. The government has informed Parliament about this.
In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said that as a pilot project, WiFi based internet facility is being provided in Howrah Rajdhani Express train through satellite communication technology.
Railways has started a project to provide free WiFi internet to the people. Under which Google company was providing this service.
If you go to the train station you have to request for wifi. After which you get free WiFi for 30 minutes. If you still need WiFi after 30 minutes, you have to pay for it. The free WiFi you get for 30 minutes also has a speed of just 1 Mbps.
Regarding the provision of WiFi in trains, the government said that this technique was of the type that costs more in the form of frequent bandwidth charges as well as costs, and it's not cost-effective. At the same time, the availability of internet bandwidth for passengers was also inadequate. That is why the project was abandoned, he said. Currently, there is no cost-effective technology available for the provision of WiFi-based internet facilities.
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