Wi-Fi to arrive at UK's railway stations
News Megabeam, a European wireless ISP, said on Monday it has reached agreement with Railtrack -- which currently owns the UK's railway infrastructure -- to install Wi-Fi hot spots based on 802.11b at nine London terminals and six regional stations.
[July 16, 2002, 10:35]
Railways set for Wi-Fi showdown
News Megabeam signed a deal with Railtrack -- now Network Rail -- last year to create hot spots at 15 of Britain's largest railway stations. When Megabeam's agreement with Railtrack was announced, back in June 2002, industry figures thought it placed...
[February 3, 2003, 14:37]
Gambling predicted to drive interactive TV
News A surprise entry in the top ten is Railtrack. Railtrack had four million hits in November last year -- the time it emerged that the rail industry was in deep crisis following a series of crashes. Interactive TV is beginning to take off as research...
[May 17, 2001, 8:04]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary 16.11.2001
Blog On the other hand, Railtrack was using 4004s in railway station displays until quite recently -- the ones with flippy letters -- and there may still be some in service. If someone said that Railtrack maintained a Colossus in a cave somewhere, with...
[November 16, 2001, 16:25]
Rip-Off! review
Reviews Disasters like Enron, Worldcom and Railtrack dealt it another. Rip-Off! is the story of the 1980s and 1990s, when the consultancy business in Britain escalated to £60 billion a year. Largely, according to Craig, it is a story of greed, a time when...
[June 28, 2005, 10:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News A frantic check on the Railtrack website reveals my permanent way options, plus a telephone number for Great Weastern telesales. The BT story rattles around like prune stones in an empty beer can. You can get too close to a story, and have to keep...
[September 19, 1998, 6:01]
BT creeps away from consumer broadband
News BT is currently planning to maintain the management of all of its different sectors under the same parent company, leading AOL to liken the telco to the beleaguered RailTrack. BT has denied that is ditching its consumer ADSL service, but at the...
[April 19, 2001, 16:09]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A frantic check on the Railtrack website reveals my permanent way options, plus a telephone number for Great Weastern telesales. The BT story rattles around like prune stones in an empty beer can. You can get too close to a story, and have to keep...
[September 19, 1998, 7:01]
