Da-Chief
05-24-2008, 11:26
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Earlier this year, the San Francisco Bay Area demonstrated (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/91508) that Wi-Fi on public transportation could be successful. The region is now working (http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/23/SF-BART-in-talks-for-full-Wi-Fi-rollout_1.html) with a company called WiFi Rail to bring full wireless service to its BART transit system. The company plans to build the system over the next two years at an out-of-pocket cost of $20 million. This won t cost BART or the city of San Francisco anything. Instead, it will be paid for through advertising and rider subscriptions to the service.
Riders will be able to get free wireless service with intermittent pop-up ads or they can choose to pay for either daily or monthly service as they would at other hot spot areas. Subscribers are expected to get speeds of 15 22 Mbps; testing showed that there was no slowdown in speeds when the service was shared by up to eight riders. There could be more than eight people sharing the signal though as a lot of interest was shown for the service; 9,000 people signed up to use it during testing and logged on over 40,000 times.
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Earlier this year, the San Francisco Bay Area demonstrated (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/91508) that Wi-Fi on public transportation could be successful. The region is now working (http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/23/SF-BART-in-talks-for-full-Wi-Fi-rollout_1.html) with a company called WiFi Rail to bring full wireless service to its BART transit system. The company plans to build the system over the next two years at an out-of-pocket cost of $20 million. This won t cost BART or the city of San Francisco anything. Instead, it will be paid for through advertising and rider subscriptions to the service.
Riders will be able to get free wireless service with intermittent pop-up ads or they can choose to pay for either daily or monthly service as they would at other hot spot areas. Subscribers are expected to get speeds of 15 22 Mbps; testing showed that there was no slowdown in speeds when the service was shared by up to eight riders. There could be more than eight people sharing the signal though as a lot of interest was shown for the service; 9,000 people signed up to use it during testing and logged on over 40,000 times.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/SF-Bay-Area-to-Get-Public-Transit-WiFi-94702)
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