Govt. to cut wifi connection on trains?!

Tue 23 May 2023, 08:42

I hate to say it, but I always found the GWR wifi connection pretty good. I also know a lot of people who use it when working on the train.

Tue 23 May 2023, 07:06

Wow, once again the UK is going backwards compared to the rest of Europe. 

Mon 22 May 2023, 23:14

I’ve never once managed to join the GWR wifi - 4g on a phone way more reliable.

Mon 22 May 2023, 18:18

"networks will need to be re-nationalised",

So we'd lose the choice between Chiltern and GWR - and go back to the four trains a day between Cby and London we had in my student days.

Advocates of renationalisation seem to forget that virtually all the line closures in the sixties were planned under State ownership. And. the closures were carried out under a Labour government.  

Mon 22 May 2023, 18:07

Possibly one should welcome this move, because it will discourage passengers using the privatised rail networks, with the result that the rail companies will lose money and their networks will need to be re-nationalised, which, I would argue, they should have remained all along!

Mon 22 May 2023, 15:40

To save money apparently.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/22/rail-passengers-in-england-could-lose-wifi-access-amid-cost-cuts

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Rail passengers in England could lose wifi access amid cost cuts

DfT tells operators wifi is low priority for travellers and they need to justify business case for it

Gwyn Topham

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