mumbai commuters can get wifi service at stations and in moving trains if railway authorities approve plans of a cellular firm which wants to offer the technology by piggybacking on central railways initiative that allows realtime tracking of trains on smartphones a cellular firm has approached crs mumbai divisional office with a proposal that will allow commuters to use wireless computer network cr is not averse to the proposal as commuters will get a valueadded service at zero cost of the railways in fact the railways can also seek revenuesharing model from firms who may eventually bag the contract for the project explaining the working of the system an official said as soon as a commuter with a smartphone enters a suburban station on cr a popup will appear on his cell that will display the realtime status of trains through trainenquirycom the commuter can use the service for say five minutes to track the position of trains if he wants to use wifi for longer he will have to pay for it cr also said that charges have not yet been finalized but these will be affordable the official said it will not be as expensive as the ones at airports as the average commuter will not like to spend much it is not still clear how the payment system will work but commuters may be able to pay online through debitcredit card or by using the onlinebanking system the official said that the company that wins the contract will create the infrastructure to provide wifi connectivity the official said the wifi service will act as a backup highspeed network option as the 3g services offered by cellular service providers may not be strong at some stations particularly when trains are on the move he further said for the wifi to work the operator will have to design the revenue model in such a way that it is extremely cheaper compared to 3gplans offered to commuters by their service providers the official said commuters can use this wifi facility without changing their existing service provider