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Thanks to the efforts of T-Mobile and Virgin trains, passengers can now surf the net while they are travelling on Virgin’s West Coast Main Line. The two companies will be hooking the trains up with WiFi hotspots, allowing commuters to access mobile broadband.

The West Coast Main Line will be the first to get equipped with the new service. The line runs between southern Scotland and London and goes through the West Midlands and the North West. It carries 22.5 million passengers every year. The 52 Pendolino trains run by Virgin would get the service first, followed by the 21 Super Voyager trains by mid summer.

First class passengers will get the service free of charge, and so will T-Mobile ‘pay monthly’ subscribers. The rest of the passengers can simply buy surfing time from T-Mobile and then access the service from their WiFi enabled devices (click for info on free laptop with broadband).

The entertainment and Internet Head at T-Mobile, Richard Warmsley, said that the company was looking to provide the customers every opportunity to connect via mobile broadband, which has been rising in popularity recently. He said the new service was significant not only because it would be free for existing pay monthly customers but also because anyone would be able to use it no matter which network they were subscribed to.

Nomad Digital is once again collaborating with T-Mobile on this project. The company specializes in providing data services to the transport industry. Nomad Digital has also partnered with T-Mobile in the past for providing pioneering services like the first ever on-train broadband access, on the London to Brighton route and the Heathrow Express trains.