Firms shy away from providing WiFi at railway stations

RailTel has revised the final date for bidding as many as 10 times over the past two months

The government’s aim of of connecting 7,700 railway stations with WiFi facilities might not be met. Companies have not shown much interest in the tender it has floated for a contract in this regard, citing lack of commercial viability and huge infrastructure costs.
 
The tender was floated by RailTel Corporation some months earlier. The idea was to make all 8,500 stations across the country enabled with WiFi by the end of this year.  “We would like the tender to be broken into several smaller ones. It would be difficult to manage these many stations at one go. We would