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Rail passengers to get free on-board Wi-Fi
15/08/2007 by swordfish.
Rail passengers on the London to Scotland east-coast mainline will get free Wi-Fi as part of National Express’ £1.4bn winning bid to run the franchise.
National Express will take over the rail route from GNER in mid-December this year after beating off competition for the franchise from Arriva, FirstGroup, Stagecoach and Virgin.
GNER completed the £3.2m installation of Wi-Fi broadband connectivity on all 41 of its east-coast trains last year and, although the service is free for first-class passengers, those in standard have to pay either £2.95 per half hour or £9.95 for a full day’s use.
But, in addition to faster journey times, National Express has also promised to extend free Wi-Fi to passengers in standard class as part of its seven-year contract.
The on-board Wi-Fi uses a combination of a satellite link and mobile 3G/GPRS networks to maintain 100 percent connectivity, even when going through tunnels. A server from Swedish company Icomera on the train provides a 2MB satellite downlink, which is combined with the mobile connectivity.
Source: ZDNET
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