this is worth a quick glance http://bit.ly/1CqHJfg
OK its marketing blurb, but it makes it clear that for a new trainset with all the modern contrivances such as passenger announcements, destination boards, seat reservation signs, on board ticketing, fault identification........adding broadband for customers is a trivial bolt-on just requiring an interface between the rail comms network and the internet. The data network is already there on the train, its just a case of allowing the public to use it. Safely. Last thing you want is someone hacking into the drivers controls and overriding a braking action...................
where you're going to have problems is if the powers that be insist on broadband in older stock such as the Pacers........the cost of wiring and fitting is probably greater than the residual scrap value of those clapped out bus-bodied boneshakers
Biting the hand that feeds IT
