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Google deployed 2,000 Mobstac beacons across 117 Indian train stations

Ravi Pratap · 789: Google Bought Their Beacons to Distribute Free Wifi in India · Sep 21, 2017 · at 11:14

Ravi Pratap is the co-founder of Mobstac. He discusses Mobstac's major customer deployment with Google for public railway Wi-Fi in India.

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“Google has deployed over 2000 beacons at 117 train stations, and they're using these beacons in conjunction with our platform to do essentially proximity marketing.”

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The claim, plainly

Google deployed over 2,000 beacons across 117 train stations in India using Mobstac's platform for proximity marketing.

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Assessment

The core assertions of the claim are corroborated by independent reporting and industry case studies. In August 2017, Gulzar Azad (then-Country Head of Connectivity, Google India) confirmed to India Today that Google was deploying Bluetooth beacons across Indian railway stations in partnership with RailTel to push proximity notifications alerting passengers to free Wi-Fi. Subsequent technical case studies (e.g., Fablian Technologies and Jelvix in 2018) documented that Google installed over 2,000 Eddystone BLE beacons across Indian stations. Furthermore, The Hindu reported in October 2016 that MobStac's backend technology integrated with Google and RailTel's 100+ station Wi-Fi rollout. Together, these sources substantiate that Google deployed over 2,000 beacons across 100+ (specifically 117) stations leveraging MobStac's platform for proximity engagement.

India Today reported in August 2017 that Google officially confirmed using Bluetooth beacons at RailTel railway stations to notify passengers upon arrival.
Technical case studies in 2018 documented that Google deployed more than 2,000 Eddystone BLE beacons across Indian railway stations.
The Hindu reported in October 2016 that MobStac's platform technology integrated with Google and RailTel's 100+ railway station Wi-Fi network across India.

Checked against

[1] indiatoday.in [2] fabliantechnologies.com [3] jelvix.com [4] thehindu.com [5] startupintros.com [6] repcard.com [7] medium.com [8] toptenaiagents.co.uk

"Google" "Eddystone" "railway stations" OR "train stations" India "Google" "beacons" "railway stations" India "Google" "Mobstac" OR "Beaconstac" "train stations" OR "railway stations" "Uniqode" formerly "Beaconstac" "MobStac" "MobStac" rebrand "Beaconstac" "Uniqode"

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Disclosure

Beaconstac charges a $22 one-time hardware fee per Bluetooth beacon

“We charge 22 dollars a beacon.”

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