While you're being downvoted (probably due to HN aversion to "downer debbies" for tech stuff), the question is legitimate. Why just train stations (the 400 part

While you're being downvoted (probably due to HN aversion to "downer debbies" for tech stuff), the question is legitimate. Why just train stations (the 400 part is just a beginning I assume). I was thinking along the same lines. One plausible answer seems to be pragmatism. There's a govt. agency running fiber along train tracks all over India (http://railwire.co.in/who-we-are.html http://railwire.co.in/who-we-are.html) and this allows Google to light up the fiber using their ISP expertise and have 400 test nodes to begin with. Think of it as potentially 400 new cities where Google (or some partner) could then start a googe fiber type ISP (but perhaps use wireless local loop for quicker results).