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Free wi-fi steams into St Pancras
News A wi-fi service on the UK's East Coast Main Line, which was made free for all passengers late last year, has proved particularly popular with commuters - underlining how much demand there is for free and fair wi-fi. [06 Aug 2008]
GNER Chose THUS to Provide a Next-Generation Network to Transfer Business-Critical Data Up and Down the Country, 365 Days a Year..
White Paper Great North Eastern Railways (GNER) provides high-speed train services along the East Coast Main Line, a key transport link between regions of England and Scotland and one of Britain's fastest railway... [11 Jul 2008]
Free Trade, Smart Borders, and Homeland Security: U.S.- Caribbean Cooperation in a New Era of Vulnerability
White Paper Customs Service, Coast Guard, and Border Patrol were being called upon to open U.S.borders and seaports once again to legitimate trade and travel. At the same time, they were tasked with exercising increased vigilance in... [03 Jul 2008]
Free wi-fi arrives in York station
News Station manager and train operator National Express East Coast has introduced free wireless internet across most of the station, which is used by more than 10 million rail passengers per year. Steve... [13 Jun 2008]
Eurostar links up with UK train operators
News The first seven UK rail operators to be linked are Chiltern Railways, East Midlands Trains, First Capital Connect, Hull Trains, London Midland, National Express East Coast and Virgin Trains. International... [04 Jan 2008]
Stories of the month - November 2007
News November also saw the reopening of the London St Pancras station, which is now the new home to the Eurostar and a high-speed train service to the south coast. This month started with an iPhone bang and... [29 Nov 2007]
Photos: St Pancras steams ahead with new tech
Photo This is the main entrance to the newly reopened London St Pancras station which is now home to the Eurostar and a high speed train service to the south coast. There are six Eurostar platforms all housed... [19 Nov 2007]
Rail passengers to get free on-board wi-fi
News 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. GNER completed the £3.2m installation of wi-fi broadband... [14 Aug 2007]
Virgin trains kitted out with mobile signal boosters
News The installation of the repeaters is separate from the on-board wi-fi hotspots being tested on Virgin's Pendolino trains, which service the west coast. But the train company is now fitting all its... [16 May 2007]
Done and dusted: GNER wi-fi trains rollout
News Several other rail routes, such as Virgin's West Coast service and Southern Trains' Brighton Express, have opted instead for WiMax backhaul, which theoretically provides better speeds and lower latency and is based on... [27 Oct 2006]
Photos: How GNER's on-board wi-fi works
Photo That will mean GNER is the first UK train operator to offer on-board wi-fi on its entire fleet of trains across the full route of its east coast franchise, which runs from London's King's Cross to... [27 Jul 2006]
GNER's on-board wi-fi arrives early
News East coast rail operator GNER is on target to fit out its entire fleet of trains with wi-fi by the end of this summer - eight months ahead of schedule. The technology for GNER's wi-fi service is supplied by Icomera and... [26 Jul 2006]
Virgin Trains get connected with WiMax and HSDPA
News Virgin will be experimenting with the long range broadband wireless standard on its west coast mainline service, with the first installation already completed on a Pendolino train. He said: "If we were... [29 Jun 2006]
Business Traveller: Staying connected on planes, trains and automobiles
Comment Speed of travel is also an issue: 3G struggles with extremely fast moving terminals so hurtling up the West Coast mainline at more than 100mph may result in substantial data loss. To cope with the speed of the... [02 Jun 2006]
Wi-fi trains arrive nine months early
News Currently the operator of the East Coast Line, which runs from London Kings Cross through cities such as Peterborough, York, Newcastle and Edinburgh, offers wi-fi on a number of services. UK train... [31 Mar 2006]
