Google Station is coming to an Indian city before anywhere else in the world

Moving beyond railway stations in India, Google will soon begin working on its Station project to bring fast Wi-Fi at other public places.

About 150km south-east of Mumbai, the city of Pune will soon become the first place in the world to see Google deploy fast-internet hotspots at public places as part of its Station project, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The move comes as IT giant Larsen & Toubro (L&T), in association with Google, state-run internet service provider RailTel, and IBM form a consortium to bag a Rs 1,500 million ($22.2 million) with local authority Pune Smart City Development Corporation to turn Pune into a smart city.  Read more...

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