Broadband RailWire customers can now use their home broadband plans on RailTel’s high speed wifi network across 6,105 railway stations, the public sector company said on Saturday.

RailWire subscribers need not buy prepaid wi-fi plans at railway stations and can use their RailWire FTTH (fiber to the home) subscriptions on RailTel’s wi-fi network.

“To avail this facility they just need to use their smartphone, switch on Wi-Fi, select RailWire SSID and click hyper link provided on captive portal (log in screen) to punch RailWire user ID and password.

“RailTel’s Wi-Fi at railway stations are spread across India and is one of the single largest integrated public Wi-Fi networks, globally, which gets accessed by more than 10 lakh unique users every day. Currently, RailWire has 4.82 lakh subscribers across India and the number is only growing,” the rail company said.

“RailTel is committed to strengthen its RailWire infrastructure, spread deeper into data starved areas, unleash more infotainment offering and improve value propositions for its RailWire customers in near future . Making home broadband plans available at station WiFi network across India is a unique value proposition for our esteemed RailWire customers”, added Sanjai Kumar, RailTel CMD.

Recently, RailTel introduced “RailWire SATRANG” — a multi-faceted multi-screen broadband entertainment package aimed to redefine the new age digital experience of streaming OTTentertainment contents on the go. It means that OTT contents can now be enjoyed on any of the 6,105 railway stations using the Wi-Fi network available at the stations. The OTT bundled RailWire broadband plans start from  Rs. 499 per month with 14 OTTs services, which are available across the country, Mint newspaper added.