 "Rail Budget 2013: Bansal's promise of Free Wifi on trains trends on cynical Twitter")
During the Railway Budget 2013, Railways Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal proposed Free Wifi access in some trains. The minister also promised that the e-ticketing service via the Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Company (IRCTC) website would be improved and promised that the facility for mobile e-ticketing would be operational by . You can view more on that here.
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Now obviously his comments have generated quite a buzz on Twitter with the term Free Wi-fi trending on the micro-blogging site. A lot of the comments seem around the fact that free wi-fi on railways a far-fetched idea and that instead they should concentrate on improving the services in trains.
Here is a selection of tweets:
The actual idea of Free Wifi on trains must be to make ppl believe that all websites are just as slow as IRCTC ! What an idea, Sirji ! - Tinu Cherian Abraham (@tinucherian) February 26, 2013
No Fare Hikes, Free WiFi, Sigh, If only trains could fly.
— Gabbar (@GabbbarSingh) February 26, 2013
Free WiFi means the prices of Routers in the grey market will go down coz of over supply of freshly yanked routers from Train coaches
Free WiFi means the prices of Routers in the grey market will go down coz of over supply of freshly yanked routers from Train coaches
— Gabbar (@GabbbarSingh) February 26, 2013
Impact Shorts
More ShortsFree WiFi on running trains. Hope the WiFi is running too.
Instead of spending on free wifi , they can make those disgusting toilets better #PuttingCartBeforeHorse #RailBudget
Pawan Bansal is Mary Antoinette- "If they can't have freedom, let they have free wifi"
— AN (@ajith27) February 26, 2013
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