mumbai central station is a massive heaving hub connecting the city to the north and east of india., if you look closer you'll see something else connecting the commuters to the rest of the world. 116 wireless access points provide free wi—fi to anyone with an indian phone number. it has been provided by google which at the moment says about 2.5 terabytes are being downloaded here every day. and here's the interesting part — this is notjust about this station, along india's railway tracks lie 115,000 kilometres of optic fibre and google is piping internet access down those cables to feed wi—fi access to 114 other train stations as well. i caught up with the man overseeing the project while he was waiting for his train. if you had to take one place in the country where you want tremendous fibre and you had to have reliable power, relatively speaking power is a challenge across the country and you had to have an entire country walking there at that one place, there is only one place that is the railway stations. can you guarantee that all services on google's wi—fi will be treated equ

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mumbai central station is a massive, heaving hub, connecting the city to the north and east of india.e interesting part — this is notjust about this station. along india‘s railway tracks lie 45,000 kilometres of optic fibre and google is piping internet access down those cables to feed wi—fi access to 114 other train stations, too. the man overseeing the project is gulzar azad, who i caught up with while he was waiting for his train. if you had to take one place in the country where you wanted tremendous fibre and you had to have reliable power, relatively speaking, power is a challenge across the country... and you had to have the entire country walking through it. that one place, that‘s only one place — that‘s the railway stations. can you guarantee that all services on google‘s wi—fi will be treated equally? absolutely, i think the whole idea and motivation for us, if you look at the reason why we did this, was to see if we can provide an open internet, completely open, with full access to the entire web, the way the web was designed. so there is a fibre—optic network that‘s rollin

mumbai central station is a massive heaving hub connecting the city to the north and east of india.orld. 116 wireless access points provide free wi—fi to anyone with an indian phone number. it has been provided by google which at the moment says about two and half terabytes are being downloaded here every day. and here's the interesting part, this is notjust about the station, along india's railway tracks lie 45,000 kilometres of optic cables and google is piping internet access down those cables to feed wi—fi access to 114 other train stations as well. i caught up with he man overseeing the project while he was waiting for his train. if you had to take one place in the country where you want tremendous fibre and you had to have reliable power, relatively speaking power is a challenge across the country and you had to have an entire country walking there at that one place, there is only one place that is the railway stations. can you guarantee that all services on google's wi—fi will be treated equally? absolutely, i think the whole motivation for us, if you look at the reason why w