{"id":5479,"date":"2009-09-03T13:15:02","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T04:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=5479"},"modified":"2009-09-03T13:15:02","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T04:15:02","slug":"narita-express-in-train-wifi-service-starts-in-competition-with-other-transit-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/narita-express-in-train-wifi-service-starts-in-competition-with-other-transit-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"Narita Express: In-train WiFi Service To Start In Competition With Other Transit Operators"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As a countermeasure against other transit operators<\/a> which have been providing in-cabin WiFi service for their passengers, JR East<\/a>, a railway company operating a rapid express service from\/to Narita International Airport<\/a>, just announced it would start WiFi service in the train this coming October.<\/p>\n

UQ WiMax<\/a> users and Softbank Telecom’s WiFi<\/a> users are allowed to use the in-train Internet service without any additional cost.\u00a0\u00a0 For having Internet connectivity for trains on the move, JR East installed rooftop WiMax antennas onto some new model train cars.\u00a0\u00a0 The connectivity will be dropped in tunnel sections of the route where WiMax signal cannot reach.<\/p>\n

Via Nikkei Net[J]<\/a><\/p>\n

See Also:<\/strong><\/p>\n

JR East’s Press Release: Brand-new Narita Express will debut on October 1, 2009[PDF]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a countermeasure against other transit operators which have been providing in-cabin WiFi service for their passengers, JR East, a railway company operating a rapid express service from\/to Narita International Airport, just announced it would start WiFi service in the train this coming October. UQ WiMax users and Softbank Telecom’s WiFi users are allowed to… Continue reading Narita Express: In-train WiFi Service To Start In Competition With Other Transit Operators<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,23],"tags":[1879,2529,3910],"class_list":["post-5479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-new-service","tag-jr-east","tag-narita-express","tag-uq-wimax","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}