Indian train stations to go online

Search giant Google is collaborating with Indian Railways and RailTel to bring high-speed Wi-Fi to 100 of the country’s busiest stations – serving over 10 million commuters a day – by the end of 2016

Narendra Modi
Prime Minister plans to connect 600,000 villages across India using fibre optic cable

China 641.6m
Japan 109.1m
Nigeria 67.1m
UK 57.1m
Brazil 107.8m
U.S. 279.8m
Rest of world 1,263.2m
India 243.2m
World internet users 2,925 million (July 2014 est.)
Russia 84.4m
Germany 71.7m

19.2% Less than one-in-five of India’s 1.27 billion population have internet access
40% Google wants 500m Indians online by 2017

Sources: Internet Live Stats, eMarketer
Picture: Associated Press