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In July 2004, the French railway company, SNCF, signed a cooperation agreement
with Cegetel for the introduction and management of a WiFi network in France's
fifty largest railway stations.
With 600 million potential visitors per year, the new WiFi hotspot network will
be the largest in the country.
It will become operational in January 2005, offering visitors access via the
"WiFiGare" portal to the SFR WiFi Service and specific services developed by SNCF
for its customers, who will be able to connect to the Internet and their corporate
intranets, send and receive e-mails, buy rail tickets and obtain direct information
on trains, stations and facilities in the vicinity.
List of stations concerned:
Aéroport CDG2 TGV, Aix en Provence TGV, Amiens, Angers St-Laud, Avignon Centre,
Bordeaux St-Jean, Caen, Cannes, Grenoble, Chambéry Challes les Eaux, Clermont
Ferrand, Dijon Ville, Lille Europe, Lille Flandres, Limoges Bénédictins, Valence
TGV, Le Mans, Lyon Part Dieu, Lyon Perrache, Lyon St-Exupéry, Marne la Vallée
Chessy, Marseille St-Charles, Monaco Monte Carlo, Montpellier, Metz Ville, Nancy
Ville, Nîmes, Nice Ville, Nantes, Orléans, Paris Nord, Paris Austerlitz, Paris
Est, Paris Montparnasse 1&2, Paris Gare de Lyon, Paris St-Lazare, Pau, Poitiers,
Reims, Rennes, Rouen Rive Droite, Mulhouse Ville, St Etienne Chateaucreux, Strasbourg,
Toulon, Toulouse Matabiau, Tours, Valence Ville, Valenciennes and Versailles Chantiers.
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