News: Indian Railways to make 500 stations wi-fi-enabled
(PTI 05/10/2006) New Delhi - RailTel, a railway public sector undertaking, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a U S-based software company to make its 500 stations across the country Wi-Fi-enabled.
"We are in touch with one of the companies to make 500 major railway stations wi-fi. We have signed an MOU in this regard. We are on the job," K K Bajpayee, President and Managing Director of the RailTel Corporation Ltd, said here on Thursday on the eve of a two-day international conference on telecommunications signaling, to be inaugurated by Railway Minister Lalu Prasad on Friday.
The objective behind the Wi-Fi scheme was to connect passengers with the rest of the world through internet and websites, he said.
About the 139 call centers meant for providing railway related information, Bajpayee said two such centers were already in operation at Bangalore (Karnataka) and Patna (Bihar) and tenders have been floated for over 200 such call centers across the country, to be operational within a year.
Observing that since 2006 has been declared as "year of the passenger service with a smile", he said railways were concentrating on providing "touch and feel" items to achieve this goal.
In line with this, he said five stations have been identified in each division (total 69 divisions) for provision of passenger information systems such as train arrival, departure, coach guidance system, interacting voice response system and cyber cafes etc.
"We are in touch with one of the companies to make 500 major railway stations wi-fi. We have signed an MOU in this regard. We are on the job," K K Bajpayee, President and Managing Director of the RailTel Corporation Ltd, said here on Thursday on the eve of a two-day international conference on telecommunications signaling, to be inaugurated by Railway Minister Lalu Prasad on Friday.
The objective behind the Wi-Fi scheme was to connect passengers with the rest of the world through internet and websites, he said.
About the 139 call centers meant for providing railway related information, Bajpayee said two such centers were already in operation at Bangalore (Karnataka) and Patna (Bihar) and tenders have been floated for over 200 such call centers across the country, to be operational within a year.
Observing that since 2006 has been declared as "year of the passenger service with a smile", he said railways were concentrating on providing "touch and feel" items to achieve this goal.
In line with this, he said five stations have been identified in each division (total 69 divisions) for provision of passenger information systems such as train arrival, departure, coach guidance system, interacting voice response system and cyber cafes etc.
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