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Queensland Trains Will Soon Get Some WiFi Love

April 21, 2009 at 8:56 AM | by | Comments (0)

If you are lucky enough to live in southeast Queensland, you might be able to email your boss right from the commuter train—just make sure you don’t tell her how you really feel about your annual review. New wireless equipment is being installed to allow security footage to be streamed to the train’s headquarters in Brisbane, and commuters are going to get the WiFi runoff. Hopefully, American politicians have an idea like this in mind when they start to finalize those new high-speed trains.

Officials with Queensland Rail expect all this new technology to cost about between $1 and $4 million—quite a range, no? The WiFi will be available on all the trains and stations within the Citytrain network by early in 2010. Until then, you’ll have to call out of work the old-fashioned way.

Once complete, this new service will give Queensland some pretty serious techno bragging rights, as it will become the only state in Australia where commuters will have constant access to the Internet. Let’s just hope it’s reliable.

Related Stories:
·Queensland Train Commuters To Get Free Wi-Fi [Gizmodo AU, via Courier Mail]
·WiFi Coming To Japanese Bullet Trains [Jaunted]
·WiFi coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: Cyron]

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