New Delhi: Railways has assured the continuation of free WiFi services at 415 railway stations in India. Railtel, a Miniratna PSU under the Ministry of Railways said: "We entered into a five-year contract with Google for supporting us with setting up WiFi at 415 stations only and the contract is going to expire in May 2020. However, RailTel will continue to provide uninterrupted WiFi service, with same speed and network quality, to passengers at these 415 stations after May 2020 as well. We sincerely value the support we received from Google in this journey.”

Google launched its Station initiative in India in 2015 at the busiest railway stations in the country by 2020. According to Google, the decision to shut Station has been taken keeping the affordable mobile data plans and mobile connectivity in mind that is improving globally including in India. "Passengers will not face any inconvenience in terms of WiFi availability. We will also continue to execute WiFi connectivity at the balance stations," the RailTel said.

Google launched its Station initiative in India in 2015 to bring fast, free public WiFi to 415 of the busiest railway stations in the country by mid-2020. Global networking giant Cisco last year teamed up with Google to roll out free, high-speed public WiFi access globally, starting with India.