Rail Tel

Why is it in news?
  • The Indian Railways has one of the world’s largest public WiFi networks in RailWire WiFi.
  • RailWire WiFi has around 2.6 crore users logins in a monthand has presence at 746 railway stations across the country.
Rail Tel and Rail Wire WiFi
  • RailWire WiF i:
    (1) Free WiFi services to commuters are being provided under ‘RailWire’, RailTel’s retail Broadband initiative.
    (2) The network, provided by RailTel.
    (3) It is not only one of the largest but also one of the fastest public WiFi networks.
    (4) RailTel has provided high speed WiFi at 414 A, A1 and C category railway stations across the country, in association with Google as the technology partner.
  • Rail Tel:
    (1) A ‘Mini Ratna’ central PSU (Public Sector Undertaking) under the Ministry of Railways.
    (2) Vision: To become the preferred telecom solutions and services provider for knowledge economy.
    (3) Mission: To attain leadership in providing premier telecom infrastructure service by offering the cost-effective state of the art communication solutions.
  1. Objective :
    (1) To facilitate Railways in expeditious modernizing of their operation and safety systems and network providing by state of art communication infrastructure.
    (2) To plan, build, develop, operate and maintain a nationwide broadband telecom and multimedia network to supplement national telecom infrastructure to spur growth of telecom, broadband and IT enabled value added services in all parts of country specially rural,remote and backward areas.
    (3) To generate revenue through commercial exploitation of its telecom network.
Source
The Hindu




Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 21st Jan 2019
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