MuniWireless

Arriva, a train operator in Scandinavia, is offering free Wi-Fi service to passengers traveling across Denmark, starting with the trains that run between Aarhus, Thisted and Tønder in Jutland. Arriva carries more than 7 million passengers each year.

The backhaul for Arriva’s Wi-Fi service is 3G HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) from 3 (www.3.dk) (which is 60% owned by Hutchinson, a Hongkong based telecommunications company). Because almost all of Denmark has HSPA coverage, the Arriva trains will not use satellite as…

Djurslands.net, one of the world’s biggest non-commercial rural wireless networks operates in Denmark at about a third of the cost of urban networks, largely due to a passionate group of volunteers. Now they want to do the same for other rural regions of the world.Djurslands.net, one of the world’s biggest non-commercial rural wireless networks operates at about a third of the cost of urban networks in Denmark, largely due to a passionate group of volunteers. Now they want to do…