Commuters travelling on FirstGroup’s Shuttle100 fleet, which runs between Swansea and Cardiff, have been given access to on-board wireless broadband services thanks to a new deal with Moovera Networks.

The Moovbox M100 mobile broadband gateway provides Wi-Fi Internet access to passengers at broadband speeds of 'up to' 1.8Mbps throughout the journey, and real-time GPS-based tracking for vehicle location and schedule adherence monitoring:


The Moovbox M100 delivers Wi-Fi Internet service to passengers in conjunction with the 3G HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) mobile broadband network from Vodafone UK. In the first few weeks since its launch in late January the Wi-Fi service has been used hundreds of times by passengers with an average online session length of over half an hour; the trip itself usually last one hour.