By Jo Best, 2 December 2008 16:00
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Business travellers on their way to Heathrow by coach will soon be able to trim their downtime thanks to a new wi-fi service.
Vehicles used by the RailAir coach service, which runs between Reading and Heathrow airport every 20 minutes, have been upgraded to provide a free wi-fi service to passengers.
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The cellular broadband gateways behind the service come from vendor Icomera.
According to the company, users can expect broadband speeds over 2Mbps during their journey.
As well as giving travellers an opportunity to surf gratis, the gateways will allow FirstGroup, which runs the RailAir service, to track the coaches en route.
By getting real-time access to the vehicles' whereabouts, FirstGroup can track how the service is being affected by any traffic delays and how closely drivers are sticking to schedules.
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1. Karen Challinor
if the business traveller is so vital to the business that they cannot be away from their PC for a short period then they have don't really have much business taking a flight and should try to conduct their meeting via telepresence
you could do most meetings using a webcam and skype!
flying isn't that necessary, but it does suggest a certain status for the traveller
after all a person who "has to fly to paris in the morning" and spends hours away from their desk on some mysterious errand that mere mortals cannot handle is sooo much more important than someone who holds a virtual meeting without leaving their desk and seamlessly gets on with their work once it's done