Internet giant Google has announced Google Station, which the company claims will bring fast and affordable Wi-Fi to millions of people across India. Under the service, Google plans to rollout Wi-Fi hot spots at public places such as malls, metro stations, cafes and universities across the country.?
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"The goal is to give people many hot spots within a few minutes walk from their home, university, or workplace, unified by a simple login process that works across all of them," Caesar Sengupta, vice-president, Next Billion Users at Google said in a statement. The company plans to set up infrastructure for the same and offer unified logins to users.
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The company in association with RailTel currently offers free Wi-Fi access at 53 railway stations across India and plans to take it to 100 stations by the year-end. The plan is to take the service to 400 train stations.
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The company also announced at the event that its AI-powered Google Assistant will soon be available in Hindi. Google Assistant is the company's rival to Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana.
Google also announced that India was the first country to get its new messaging app Allo. Google Allo takes on Facebook-owned WhatsApp.