Rail mobile internet speeds set to get faster in the UK

[Mors]

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[QUOTE=BBC News][B]The rail industry plans to roll out "high-speed mobile broadband" across the busiest parts of Britain's rail network, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has announced.[/B]

By 2019, 70% of train passengers should have access to the faster technology, the Department for Transport added.

Passengers may be able to watch streamed videos on their mobiles, for example, if the plan to raise data capacity per train 25-fold succeeds.

The programme will be industry funded.[/QUOTE]

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Somehow I can't see this happening, the trains I regularly use [sp]which, by the way, can be very busy even at non-peak times[/sp] don't even [I]have[/I] internet, yet they're quite modern.

[godinthehouse]

Welcome to SouthWest/Southern trains, Mors.

[Thomo_UK]

This is good and all but can I get a cheaper trains instead.

[Mors]

[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;42360441]This is good and I all but can I get a cheaper trains instead.[/QUOTE]

I very much would like that too. It's so expensive even for relatively short journeys.

[Worldwaker]

"Company decides to upgrade old hardware to slightly less old hardware, still fucking over consumers massively."

There, now you all can skip the article.

[The mouse]

Even the Buses where I live have High speed Wifi, such a waste of money.

[Ishwoo]

I bet they'll raise train fares again to cover the costs of this

[Sadim]

[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;42360441]This is good and all but can I get a cheaper trains instead.[/QUOTE]

Megabuses is where the futures at.

[Memobot]

[QUOTE=godinthehouse;42360430]Welcome to SouthWest/Southern trains, Mors.[/QUOTE]

I swear SouthWest have a lot of shares in a bus company. Even when you've got 90,000 going to Twickenham for an event they put up a rail replacement service!
They should just dig up the rails and replace it with a set of bus lanes.

[Mors]

[QUOTE=Memobot;42360732]I swear SouthWest have a lot of shares in a bus company. Even when you've got 90,000 going to Twickenham for an event they put up a rail replacement service!
They should just dig up the rails and replace it with a set of bus lanes.[/QUOTE]

I believe SWT and Stagecoach are the same company. There are a lot of Stagecoach bus services around where I live, so it would make sense.

Their rail replacement units are absolute shit though, at least that is when they can [i]actually get one[/I] when the train fails.

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[agentalexandre]

[QUOTE=Sadim;42360707]Megabuses is where the futures at.[/QUOTE]
Megabus is great. Paid 14 GBP return from London to Yorkshire just the other day. The journey was half way by bus half way by train which is an awesome offer.

[Reshy]

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Somehow I can't see this happening, the trains I regularly use [sp]which, by the way, can be very busy even at non-peak times[/sp] don't even [I]have[/I] internet, yet they're quite modern.[/QUOTE]

Twenty-Five times zero is still zero.