In the move to to upgrade the West Coast mainline trains, Virgin Trains will give passengers journeying from Liverpool to London, the benefit of free onboard Wi-Fi. Virgin Trains will deploy the Wi-Fi service later this year, on all its Pendolino trains. A company spokesperson said the installation of the upgrade will start in May this year, as part of a new deal agreed to run the West Cost train franchise up to March next year.<\/p>\n
The spokesperson said all the 56 Pendolino trains will undergo the refit that will allow the free Wi-Fi access to all customers and vastly improve equipment on-board. The spokesperson said the work is expected to be finished by January next year and that more than 85% of their passengers travel on Pendolinos. In addition, the new ‘future-proofed’ tech will work with 5G mobile networks, as and when they come on stream, offering improved speed, as the upgrade will allow more future technology-led improvements, all going to increase customer satisfaction, the spokesperson explained.<\/p>\n
Phil Whittingham, the MD of Virgin Trains on the West Coast, said he is happy that they have secured a new contract to continue operation, having led the industry for more than 2 decades. The investment will bring big improvements in on-board Wi-Fi and follow with innovations like automatic delay-repay and an app for free films and TV on-board, he added. Phil Whittingham said he is pleased to to offer almost all their customers access to the improved free Wi-Fi<\/a>, as it is a top customer priority and it upgrades both speed and availability. The deal worth \u00a37.5 million will see, beside the upgrades, a number of improvements across services, including investigating the ‘not-spots’ on the network and also upgrades to toilets and seats at stations, plus extras staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the move to to upgrade the West Coast mainline trains, Virgin Trains will give passengers journeying from Liverpool to London, the benefit of free onboard Wi-Fi. Virgin Trains will deploy the Wi-Fi service later this year, on all its Pendolino trains. A company spokesperson said the installation of the upgrade will start in May […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14788,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786\/revisions\/14788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}