A major European Thalys rail carrier announced plans to offer passenger trains plying between Amsterdam, Paris, Brussels and Cologne, broadband access based on a number of wireless technologies. The new service will be available in 2008. Engage in sale and maintenance of the project will be a consortium of Nokia Siemens, the British 21 Net ( satellite operator ), and Belgium's Telenet ( operator of terrestrial communications ), according to TelecomWeb.
Inside the rolling stock, accelerates to a speed of 300 km / h, will be installed access point Wi-Fi, so that passengers do not even notice the switch between satellite networks, GPRS, UTMS or WiMax in different parts of the path. Testing of the project should begin in the near future. About what kind of bandwidth will be available for passengers not informed.
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