Free Wi-Fi turns Secunderabad railway station into hub of porn downloads
Free WI-Fi is offered by the RailTel for the first 30 minutes at railway stations.
New Delhi: What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think about free WiFi at railway stations ? Well by the time you think about it, let us tell you that the main idea behind offering free WiFi at railway stations was to ensure better connectivity for travellers.
But, this has terribly gone wrong and for a wrong reason, as these free WIFI services are being misused and the service is being used mostly to watch and download sexual content.
According to a Times of India report, it has been found that Secunderabad has registered maximum downloads of sexual content under South Central Railway (SCR) followed closely by Hyderabad, Vijayawada and Tirupati.
Sources in RailTel, said that pornography accounts for over 35% of all searches and downloads in Secunderabad and Vijayawada.
Free WI-Fi is offered by the RailTel for the first 30 minutes at railway stations.
In fact, concerns about slow internet bandwidth at stations have been blamed on the misuse of free WiFi even as South Central Railway looks to extend internet services to 588 stations.
Meanwhile, slow internet bandwidth at stations have been blamed on the misuse of free WiFi even as South Central Railway looks to extend internet services to 588 stations.
A senior RailTel official told TOI that the gateway data showed that a substantial number of Wi-Fi searches relate to pornographic content.
Meanwhile, hundreds of porn websites are not accessible. Also, VPN and access to some websites are yet to be blacklisted.