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Trains get satellite broadband boost
News Trains also need to deal with ground obstacles and tunnels. Previously, licensing constraints barred trains from using a satellite uplink. Ofcom has had licence types for planes and ships for some time, but created the new type because of the...
[September 12, 2006, 17:35]
Trains
Downloads Trains provides you with live departures and arrivals information for every single National Rail station in the United Kingdom. Whether your train is on time, delayed or cancelled, now you can check its status before you even set off for the station.
[October 1, 2008, 14:53]
Virgin Trains boosts on-board mobile signals
News Virgin's cross-country trains are being fitted with equipment which will boost mobile signals. Because of the design of Virgin's Voyager trains — the windows are made out of glass containing metal compounds — making a phone call can currently be...
[May 15, 2007, 15:17]
Wi-Fi gets onboard Asia's trains
News Singapore's public trains could also be equipped with Wi-Fi capabilities. Wireless internet services, currently available on Japan's Tsukuba Express, are slowly making their way onto other public train networks in Asia.
[June 22, 2007, 11:07]
Wi-Fi rollout completed on East Coast trains
News Rail operator GNER has completed the fit-out of all its trains with Wi-Fi broadband connectivity. As predicted, the company has installed the technology on all 41 of its trains — electric and diesel — ahead of schedule.
[October 27, 2006, 12:25]
More Virgin trains get on-board Wi-Fi
News Virgin Trains has introduced Wi-Fi broadband services on its Super Voyager trains that travel between Birmingham and Scotland, as well as from London Euston to North Wales and Chester. Broadband provider T-Mobile has teamed up with Nomad Digital to...
[November 6, 2009, 11:05]
All aboard for Wi-Fi trains?
News The Wireless LAN Event heard on Thursday that several companies in the railway sector are interested in the possibility of implementing wireless networks in trains, with some trials already planned or underway.
[May 23, 2003, 17:13]
Wi-Fi rollout on trains needs passenger push
News The worldwide market for high-speed wireless networks on trains will be worth many hundreds of millions of pounds within five years, even though railway operators may be slow to embrace Wi-Fi, according to industry analysts.
[August 29, 2003, 17:45]
Virgin Trains Wi-Fi arrives one year late
News Virgin Trains has completed the rollout of Wi-Fi on its Pendolino trains operating between London and Scotland, more than a year later than originally planned. When the project was announced back in September 2006, Virgin Trains set the completion...
[April 30, 2009, 9:17]
Survey: Give us Wi-Fi trains
News Commuters are crying out for Wi-Fi on their trains and in their train stations -- it's all work, work, work for tech-savvy travellers. We're not changing commuters' behaviour here, this isn't a new end-user concept -- [travellers] are already...
[May 21, 2004, 11:05]
Survey: Give us Wi-Fi trains
Talkback so terrorists can give their final commands via their PDAs to blow up our trains? why? uh - no thanks.its already too easy for this sh-theads to move about our cities and towns.
[May 23, 2004, 3:26]
GNER speeds up Wi-Fi trains
News GNER announced on Wednesday that 21 of its 41 trains now offer wireless Internet access. Train operator GNER has accelerated the rollout of Wi-Fi networks on its rolling stock, after seeing strong demand for the service.
[April 26, 2006, 17:00]
All aboard for Wi-Fi trains?
Talkback hello, any update on wifi on trains ? I've heard about deployments in Taiwan, in Denmark, issues with rain, pulz8 company involved in some of that .could someone comment ? cheers, MP - France
[May 20, 2004, 8:33]
Virgin Trains aims for 49Mbps broadband
News Travellers on Virgin Trains' West Coast line may soon be getting Wi-Fi access with WiMax backhaul. The WiMax signal would in turn be relayed to Wi-Fi access points on the trains to provide seamless connectivity for passengers even in tunnels or...
[September 21, 2006, 13:55]
Wi-Fi rollout completed on East Coast trains
Talkback The main reason nobody uses laptops on First "Great" Western trains is that they have yet to manage to provide power points, something even Virgin have had for years. It's about time some of the other railway companies got with the 21st century...
[October 27, 2006, 23:35]
Virgin Trains boosts in-carriage mobile coverage
News Travellers on Virgin Trains could soon be chattering for longer. Repeater technology, which retransmits 2G and 3G, will be installed on all 52 of Virgin's high-speed Pendolino trains on the London to Glasgow route by November.
[April 8, 2008, 9:29]
GNER speeds up Wi-Fi trains
Talkback You say that it's more expensive than many cafes, but a lot charge a minimum of £6 per hour. GNER lets you buy just 30 mins and an hour is cheaper. I used GNER's system myself last summer - it was convinient but a bit unreliable if your train...
[April 27, 2006, 15:21]
GNER speeds up Wi-Fi trains
Talkback Can anyone explain how they provide it free to 1st yet paid to Standard passengers - how does the network differentiate?
[April 28, 2006, 20:11]
Virgin Trains aims for 49Mbps broadband
Talkback So its 2M really - "WiMax can theoretically provide speeds of up to 49Mbps, although in this case the DSL land connections will limit that to 2Mbps" though they could use MaxDSL or bonding to get double-digit MBit/s speeds from ADSL.
[October 1, 2006, 9:01]
Bluejacking spawns 'toothing' on trains
Talkback There's a report at the quoted URL detailing how many men vs women are bluetoothing, what devices they use and which manufacturers are most popular. Enjoy the statistics :-) http://www.zero-sum.net/partners/gr/bluetooth-and-social-networking-april...
[April 28, 2004, 12:29]
