Free Wi-Fi service for train passengers

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Free Wi-Fi service for train passengers

BANGKOK: -- The board of directors of the State Railway of Thailand has instructed acting SRT governor Prasert Attanan to install free Wi-Fi services for train passengers.

In the initial phrase, the services will be available on express trains, inside sleeping carriages and inside Bangkok Railway Station.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Free-Wi-Fi-service-for-train-passengers-30238708.html


-- The Nation 2014-07-17

[canopus1969]

Good news, now if they can just get the trains to stay on the track ...

[poohy]

Absolutely Fantastic ... but why not just get the toilet's working properly first!

[colinneil]

Wi-Fi great. Would it not be better to spend the money on security ???

[jaltsc]

"In the initial phrase, the services will be available on express trains..."

Hopefully the Wi-Fi service will have access to better grammar/vocabulary check than the Nation.

[UbonRatch]

And sockets to keep things charged, such as: phones, laptops, pads and notebooks will be provided in carriages, in case of emergency?

No point in having Wi-Fi if your source of use for it is battery dead!

Edited July 17, 2014 by UbonRatch

[lostsoul49]

Wow!!

How generous.

That must be costing them at least 70,000 baht.

[chotthee]

People on the train can logon to WiFi to report on crimes like Rape, Murder, Robbery, Molest etc.

Good idea.

[londonthai]

now the kids will be congregating at stations to play online games, watch porno, gamble. No curfew at 6pm, like internet shops

[TimCM]

So many positive comments here, are they cynical or wise

[munters meadow]

And sockets to keep things charged, such as: phones, laptops, pads and notebooks will be provided in carriages, in case of emergency?

No point in having Wi-Fi if your source of use for it is battery dead!

there are a couple of device charging sockets already in some sleepers. not really adequate.

am wondering where they are going to get the internet access from to feed the wifi on a moving train?

satellite? 3g phone? whatever it going to be slow, so perhaps will still be using your own 3g phone connection as before.

Edited July 17, 2014 by munters meadow

[lemonjelly]

Hope the download speed is faster than the trains. But great news anyway, and yes, they'll need to provide more electrical sockets. I presume they'll be using a 3G signal, how many connections can that handle?

[WhizBang]

WiFi good... but, I would rather see new rolling stock, clean toilets, good security and good food (well, ok, edible food) first.

[UbonRatch]

People on the train can logon to WiFi to report on crimes like Rape, Murder, Robbery, Molest etc.

Good idea.

DOES your phone stay charged all the way from, for example, Ubon to BKK - a 12 hour journey, for those who do not take the express?

I have a Samsung S4 and, if fully charged before embarking, then yes it would be operative for such a long journey.

How many Thai kids have up-to-date phones? Probably 10% - the rich ones. All others use battered old Nokias and the likes, or second hand decent phones in which the battery is almost defunct.

Therefore, unless they take a charger, and have access to such to charge their phones, then no - they can actually report zilch, zero, nada, rien, ไม่มีอะไร ....

Without sockets available to each seat then the idea is fairly useless.... but a nice idea, at second best. It looks and sounds good only.

[baboon]

Thanks, but I would prefer just to be able to have a few beers and watch the world go by. It is healthy to be away from the Internet every once in a while.

[tso310]

Hope the download speed is faster than the trains. But great news anyway, and yes, they'll need to provide more electrical sockets. I presume they'll be using a 3G signal, how many connections can that handle?

Actually pigeon post would be faster than the trains.

[munters meadow]

Thanks, but I would prefer just to be able to have a few beers and watch the world go by. It is healthy to be away from the Internet every once in a while.

i would have said it is healthier to stay away from the booze than the wifi .

[SoFarAndNear]

WOW!! Welcom to the future... !!!!

ohh ..wait!!!.. it is 2014 and there was still no wifi on trains till yet

[Chicog]

It's quite useful really, because then the drunken, drugged up nephews of SRTexecs who've gotten them cleaning jobs can beat off to some quality interweb porn instead of raping kids.

[impulse]

So many positive comments here, are they cynical or wise

I know where my money is.

A positive step, and nothing but negative comments so far...

[farangbanok]

Retrograde, populist decision to attract the 30 - 40 IQ group to trains (NOTE IQ group - not AGE group!).

Now it will be absolutely impossible to relax on a train, with all the lowest grade morons playing smartphone and notebook games - with the associated beeps, grunts and farts.

Pity SRT haven't the intellect of Cotswold Trains in UK where they have mobile/smartphones banned in many coaches!

Bliss! And a coach full of intelligent companions for the journey from Stourbridge to London.

[Hawk]

Give me free drinks and food but I will never get on a Thai train ever again. Too slow, too expensive, disgusting toilets, lousy service.

[ginjag]

Give me free drinks and food but I will never get on a Thai train ever again. Too slow, too expensive, disgusting toilets, lousy service.

This has gone completely OFF THE RAILS, way OFF TRACK, wi fi--ON LINE, Someone needs to be re-TRAINED in their thinking, until the stock and lines are bettered.

[ratcatcher]

Retrograde, populist decision to attract the 30 - 40 IQ group to trains (NOTE IQ group - not AGE group!).

Now it will be absolutely impossible to relax on a train, with all the lowest grade morons playing smartphone and notebook games - with the associated beeps, grunts and farts.

Pity SRT haven't the intellect of Cotswold Trains in UK where they have mobile/smartphones banned in many coaches!

Bliss! And a coach full of intelligent companions for the journey from Stourbridge to London.

'Bliss! And a coach full of intelligent companions for the journey from Stourbridge to London."

Ah yes, England, that green and pleasant land where intelligent companions abound.

Too bad you live in Thailand where you may be lucky to get one person to engage in a brief conversation with you, assuming you speak a little Thai. travelling in Thai trains is usually a reasonably pleasant experience if you've time on your hands and a sense of adventure and you are a people watcher..

[Benmart]

Try to make improvements and the naysayers will twist it into something negative.

"No good deed goes unpunished".

[Benmart]

Give me free drinks and food but I will never get on a Thai train ever again. Too slow, too expensive, disgusting toilets, lousy service.

I've learned that the center of the universe doesn't revolve around me and I have options. One is to accept life on life's terms. The other is to move on.

[Brian Corrigan]

This Country is a joke. For Gods sake get the bloody trains running on time,before you introduce the free internet to 3rd class passengers. They really do need to fix the toilets as well.

[davehowden]

Just fix the crapper first please.

[IAMHERE]

So many positive comments here, are they cynical or wise

I'm guessing that the toilet fixing reference was experience ?

[swampdonkey]

Thanks, but I would prefer just to be able to have a few beers and watch the world go by. It is healthy to be away from the Internet every once in a while.

Not allowed to have a few beers on the train anymore