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Paris & London might as well be one city, when you figure that a train ride from the center of Paris to the center of London takes just two hours, leaves every hour, and, with the one-hour time-zone change, only makes you lose an hour in your day; however, that two hour train ride gets pretty long for commuters, who are necessarily roaming in the beginning or that end half of their journey. This trans-chunnel train ride might get a little smoother, as Nomad Digital announced it has signed a contract with Siemens to provide Eurostar trains with on-board wifi.<\/p>\n
This announcement, coupled with an existing contract that Nomad Digital has had with Eurostar since 2011, is part of a \u00a3700 Million investment that Eurostar is making in refurbishing its entire fleet.<\/p>\n
French train provider SNCF announced earlier this month that it had no plans in the next few years to install Wi-Fi on its trains<\/a>; while one may wonder why SNCF does not work with a company like Nomad Digital, the answer lies in the fact that SNCF, as a company partially owned by the French Government, is required to work only with other French public entities, limiting its options in the Wi-Fi space to few players player: Orange, Alcatel-Lucent (We all know how well things are going for them these days<\/a>), etc.<\/p>\n Alcatel-Lucent’s Wi-Fi technology for trains was quoted at \u20ac2 Million per train, and Orange has an apparent on-going ‘live test’ on the Paris-Strasbourg line that has never been rolled out across France. For now, the only way French businessmen can expect to get wifi on a train out of a French train station is to catch an international train – both Thalys (62% owned by SNCF) & Eurostar are now set to offer on-board Wi-Fi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paris & London might as well be one city, when you figure that a train ride from the center of Paris to the center of London takes just two hours, leaves every hour, and, with the one-hour time-zone change, only makes you lose an hour in your day; however, that two hour train ride gets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":21097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[1545],"class_list":["post-21096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-sncf"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}