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High speed broadband to trains
Posted by: eusty on Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 09:08 PM
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21NET has secured a £10m contract to provide an advanced satellite system to
provide broadband for high speed trains.
The service will have to cope with trains travelling at over 300km/h and will
take satellite signals from the train roof to the carriages.
The bad news is that the service will only be able to passengers on Thalys, with
the first 27 high speed trains to having the system will be on Thalys
services travelling between Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Cologne. Here in the
UK the company says that the lack of any high speed trains, and the height of
railway bridges will cause problems for the satellites, so there are no plans to
being it to this side of the channel.
'Poor man of Europe' yet again!!
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