Unwired Europe: High-speed trains with high-speed WiFi

Xeni Jardin 4:27 pm Tue Feb 11, 2003

Flemming points us to what is being touted as the first WiFi-enabled high speed train in Europe:

This story (in Danish) in the web-edition of the weekly newspaper of the Danish Association of Engineers says that an 802.11 WLAN has been installed in the train between Gothenborg (Sweden) and Copenhagen (Denmark). The connection to the Internet is made with a combination of several GSM-nets (mobilephone-nets) and a satelite-link. Icomera is the supplier of the system. And in the article Michael Johansson from Icomera says:

"~~It's the first place on Earth where passengers will have access to high-speed Internet~~ This is the first place in the world where passengers on a train can get access to the the high speed Internet." (Thanks, Daen!) What's unique is that it's without a cache – and the stability is also quite unique."

The price is around $9 for access during the whole trip from Gothenborg to Copenhagen (or the other way).

Link to Icomera press release (in English), Discuss

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