Rail: Better mobile communications for train travellers in Germany

Sueddeutsche Zeitung

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For a long time, mobile phone users in Deutsche Bahn trains suffered from poor reception. The reason for this was frequency overlaps – which have now been fixed.

Spiegel

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Train travellers can expect a better network reception: Deutsche Bahn equips locomotives and railcars with new radio equipment. The old ones had a fatal effect on the connection quality.

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For a long time, mobile operators were allowed to offer only inferior mobile phone signals along railway lines. The reason: The LTE standard would have disrupted the train radio frequency. The railway is now modernising the technology on board the trains - the restrictions can be lifted.

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Internet and the train – that often didn't really want to fit together. But now everything should get better: From now on, Telekom, Vodafone and O2 can supply you better on the train. You don't have to do anything for it. The post Finally: Internet on the train will be better from now on first appeared on inside digital.

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In Germany, train travellers can expect a better mobile phone reception in the future. The reason for this is a technical conversion of around 10,000 locomotives, train trains and control cars to a new radio technology, which ensures that more frequency spectrum is available for the mobile phone supply of railway passengers. Frequency blockage by train radio Until now the train radio GSM-R, without which no train may use the railway network in G…

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Mobile Internet on the train is often slow and annoyed by rail travellers. The list of technical reasons for this is long. In recent months, however, a serious problem has been solved.