India’s railways has the capacity to carry 21 million people daily and it plans to create capacity for 30 million passengers in the next five years. The service will be free to start, with a long-term goal of making it self-sustainable. “We think this is an important part of making the Internet both accessible and useful for the more than 300 million Indians already online, and the nearly one billion more who are not,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a company blog. Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, has already intention to link India’s 600,000 villages through fiber optic networks, upgrading his country’s technology infrastructure for attracting foreign investment.
