T-Mobile Wi-Fi comes to Virgin Trains

Following on from both BT and O2 announcing the rollout of their Wi-Fi services in every Starbucks coffee house in the UK and Ireland, T-Mobile have just confirmed that they have teamed up with Virgin Trains to unroll their HotSpot Wi-Fi service onto Virgin’s tilting Pendolino trains. Apparently, the mobile internet connections work everywhere on the rail network, even when a train passes through a tunnel.

This is great news for T-Mobile Mobile Broadband pay monthly customers who get unlimited HotSpot Wi-Fi bundled with their plans already. The service is also free to Virgin Trains customers who upgrade to First Class.

Non-T-Mobile and standard class customers however can sign up for access for an hour, which sets you back £5, or for a whole 24 hours, which costs £10.

The Pendolino lines currently from London Euston to various destinations in the UK, including Manchester via Crewe or Stoke on Trent, Liverpool, and up through to Glasgow via Preston.

No Comments »Posted by Tom on May 5th 2009 in BT Broadband, O2 Broadband, T-Mobile

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