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This is smart. By offering free WiFi in 400 train stations, they're undoubtly getting the Right of Way allowances to run fiber along the majority of the rail system

This will allow them to spread a Google-owned backbone across the country that they can use as the start of rolling out Google fiber in different cities.

This isn't about free Wifi. It's about free Right of Way for their infrastructure.

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Where are you picking this up from? The official Google announcement [1] only talks about Google using RailTel's fiber network?

1 - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/bringing-the-internet...

sigh That's what I get for making assumptions and not reading in depth enough. You're absolutely right, they're going to be leasing existing fiber.

All the Railway tracks in India post 1980s were built assuming that the same track will also have cables for communication. But in reality that capacity is not much used.

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