Since 2015, Google has been working with federally-owned and operated entities, the Indian Railways and RailTel, a pan-India optic fiber network running along railway tracks in rural and urban regions covering 70% of India’s population, to bring public Wi-Fi to India’s train stations. The first Wi-Fi-enabled railway station, Mumbai Central, went live on January 2016.
Having reached its target of 400 Wi-Fi enabled stations in Phase 1 of the project, Google plans to provide Wi-Fi on board moving trains across India in Phase 2. “India has the second largest population of Internet users in the world, but there are still almost a billion Indians who aren’t online. We realize that not everyone in India lives or works near a train station, so we’re moving beyond train stations and into the rest of the cities,” says a blog post by Google.
Google rolled out a global public Wi-Fi program called Google Station based on the model that they developed in India. It has been launched in Indonesia and Mexico and is expected to extend to other countries.
Last updated: December 26th, 2025
