They don’t always turn up on time and their fare increases may have caused consternation among Dublin commuters in recent months, but at least you can now browse Facebook while you’re stuck on a bus in the morning.

Dublin Bus spent the past week trialling a free WiFi service on select routes and if all goes well, plan to have rolled out the service on its entire fleet by the end of the year. This means that commuters in the city will be the first in Europe to get free internet access on bus services.

It’s all funding dependent, however, and it seems like they’ll opt for whichever company works out the cheapest – so the connection quality still remains to be seen.

It follows on from Iarnroad Eireann already offering WiFi on most of their trains (all trains including DART will be covered by the end of the year) and the National Transport Authorities’ plans to make the Luas internet friendly soon.

Source: Joe.ie

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