Wi-Fi enabled stations would be a great opportunity for domestic equipment manufacturers: TEMA

New Delhi, Feb 26 (KNN) The Telecom Equipment Manufacturers Association of India (TEMA) is happy with the announcement of developing 100 Wi-Fi enabled railway stations during the Rail Budget on Thursday.

The Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu while presenting Railway Budget 2016-17 in Parliament yesterday said that the process has begun to introduce Wi-Fi services at stations especially for youth and business travellers.

He proposed to commission Wi-Fi services at 100 stations this year and at 400 more stations in the next 2 years. He said that Indian Railways is partnering with Google in this endeavour. 

Reacting to this, TEMA said, “The domestic telecom industry welcomes the development of enabling 100 new railways stations with Wi-Fi services. This is a positive development in line with the government’s Digital India initiative to bring more internet users online.”

TEMA said that the initiative would serve to be a great opportunity for the government to encourage domestic Wi-Fi equipment manufacturers to participate in the project and provide level playing field to the domestic players in line with the Make in India campaign.

The domestic telecom industry would look forward to more such positive developments in the future and also appreciates the government’s efforts to urbanize the Indian Railways infrastructure, said TEMA. (KNN Bureau)