Railway Minister Inaugurates Cyber Express Cafe at New Deli Station
Platform 12 of the New Delhi Station now has a Cyber Express Café.
The [Railway] Minister announced that RailTel would establish such cafes on all railway stations gradually to provide internet and other telecom connectivity to passengers, industries and market places as ‘A’ category Internet Service Producer licensee. The Minister also announced that RailTel would introduce soon Internet facilities in one of the trains buoyed by its recent successful experiment, which would be extended to other trains later. …
The Café is fully air-conditioned and is powered by a broadband internet connectivity of 256 kbps. Browsing is based on pre-paid billing through pin billing coupons of three denominations of Rs. 15/- for 15 minutes, Rs. 20/- for 30 minutes and Rs. 30/- for 60 minutes. The Internet Telephoy can be used with the ease of a normal telephone call and is aided with the bill printing machine used in the normal PCOs.
This facility shall be open 24 hours to travelling public. RailTel is running the café withM/s Appologic Broadband Systems Limited acting as a franchisee. This is the first experiment of RailTel doing this business using the revenue sharing model.
I’m sure the vast population of India will run with their laptops to catch the train.
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