NEW DELHI: Indian railway future looks bright because of the activity Railway ministry has shown to improve railway service quality has clearly seen. Whether it’s about cleanness drive on stations, technology use (wifi & tie-up with startups) and better communication approach using twitter and caller service.
As we reported last to last week that Indian Railway has tie-up with Chaayos to serve chai in luxury trains. Moving one step further Indian railway has now tie-up with Video streaming application PressPlay TV for started offering free video service in some trains. PressPlayTv expand service in about 30 trains soon.
“PressPlay TV has tied up with Northwestern Railways to offer free VoD service Delhi-Bikaner and Delhi-Udaipur bound Delhi Bikaner Intercity and Chetak Express respectively.
The company is in talks with Northwestern Railways to offer this service on 30 more trains in the next quarter. The service is absolutely free,” PressPlay TV co-founder and COO George Abraham said in a statement.
PressPlay TV offers video services like movies, songs, news through its wifi spot overs it application on Android devices. The airwaves used for wifi are free and company uses it to create its own local wifi hotspot.
The PressPlay TV app automatically downloads when phone is connected to the wifi and users can start streaming movies & videos for free without using their mobile data, the statement said.