{"id":5168,"date":"2014-11-29T09:34:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T09:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=5168"},"modified":"2014-11-29T09:35:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T09:35:28","slug":"china-testing-free-wifi-on-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=5168","title":{"rendered":"China testing free WiFi on trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers on board Train No. T809 from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guangzhou\">Guangzhou<\/a>, China\u2019s third largest city, to Hum Hong station in Kowloon (Hong Kong) enjoyed free wireless internet access for the first time yesterday (Friday), <a href=\"http:\/\/europe.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/2014-11\/28\/content_18995786.htm\">according to ChinaDaily Europe<\/a>, marking the inauguration of the first WiFi access service on the Chinese railway network.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5169\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5169\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/11\/kowloon_guangzhou.jpg\" alt=\"image of train providing Guangzhou-Kowloon service\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/11\/kowloon_guangzhou.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/11\/kowloon_guangzhou-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the trains serving the Guanzhou-Kowloon route<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The other 23 trains serving the route will also be fitted with the equipment to provide the service soon. After installation there will be a trial service period of three months before the service is launched officially.<\/p>\n<p>The equipment on the train is able to provide WiFi for up to 1,000 passengers at a time.<\/p>\n<p>It is not known whether there will be a charge for the service once it is officially launched. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers on board Train No. T809 from Guangzhou, China\u2019s third largest city, to Hum Hong station in Kowloon (Hong Kong) enjoyed free wireless internet access for the first time yesterday (Friday), according to ChinaDaily Europe, marking the inauguration of the first WiFi access service on the Chinese railway network. The other 23 trains serving the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-5168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5168"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5172,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168\/revisions\/5172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}