Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Wi-Fi tram in Nizhny Novgorod

By the 115-th anniversary of the emergence in Russia of the electric tram operator MegaFon in conjunction with the MP "Nizhegorodelektrotrans" on the basis of the Nizhny Novgorod tram depot completed a project «Wi-Fi on board."

«Wi-Fi on board was launched in Nizhny Novgorod in December 2010. Thanks to a joint project of the State Enterprise "Нижегородпассажиравтотранс and the Central Branch of MegaFon social bus passengers were able to use the resources of the World Wide Web, free of charge.

Equipment for wireless access points to Internet city trams can be considered the next step in implementing the project «Wi-Fi on board" in Nizhny Novgorod region.

Nizhny Novgorod - one of the first cities in Russia, where the electric tram appeared. Nizhny Novgorod tram is sometimes called the oldest electric tram Russia. Tram service was opened on May 20, 1896.

According to organizers, the purpose of the project - a culture of consumer Internet services based on wireless access. According to expert estimates projected that about 25% of the passengers of Nizhny Novgorod tram could become potential customers of the proposal (ie, have corresponding terminals: smart phones, communicators, laptops). Planned access speed: up to 14 Mbps for the tram division flux depending on the number of active users.