Google winds down free Station Wi-Fi program

guest · Feb 17, 2020

Google winds down free Station Wi-Fi program
Service is currently deployed in India, South Africa, Mexico, and beyond
February 17, 2020
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/17/...free-wifi-india-south-africa-railway-stations

Google is shutting down Station, a program that saw the company offer free Wi-Fi across over 400 railway stations in India and other locations worldwide since 2016, TechCrunch reports. Google Station’s website says that the service is currently live in Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, Thailand, the Philippines, Mexico, India, and Indonesia. The Station program will be wound down globally this year.

Google explained that it took the decision to end the program because it was becoming difficult to scale up and to make it a sustainable business.
TechCrunch notes that part of the challenge is likely to have been exacerbated by a decline in mobile data prices in markets like India, making free Wi-Fi programs less necessary.

Google says that it is working with its partners so that it can “transition existing sites so they can remain useful resources for the community.” In South Africa, a spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider, that it would be transferring operations to Think Wifi, “who will now carry out the project independently.”
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TechCrunch: Google ends its free Wi-Fi program Station

TechCrunch has reached out to a RailTel spokesperson to check whether the company plans to keep offering Wi-Fi in the 400 odd railway stations where it worked with Google. Update: RailTel will continue to service free Wi-Fi in all those railway stations. “We sincerely value the support we received from Google in this journey,” the spokesperson added.
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