- Tinsukia Junction in northeast region has become the 4000th railway station in the country to have free public WiFi.
- As per the Indian Railway, on average they have been rolling out WiFi in 83 stations everyday.
- The journey to provide free public WiFi started from Mumbai Central in January 2016 and in the near future all railway stations over Indian Railway (except the halt stations) will have fast and free Railwire WiFi.
- Designed to offer rail passengers the Internet experience, RailWire WiFi will be available to any user who has a smartphone with a working mobile connection.
- Indian Railway is the largest public transport of the country, while free WiFi is a pro-passenger initiative of the Ministry which in line the Prime Minister’s ‘Digital India’ programme.
