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Article: Better Wi-Fi access arrives for ACE riders
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- October 11, 2009
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BETWEEN TRACY AND STOCKTON -- The county landscape rushed past
the windows of the ACE train as afternoon commuters heading home
from jobs in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley chatted with fellow
passengers, listened to music or typed away on their laptops.
A few of the laptop users checked e-mail or kept working, tapping
into the Internet through wireless services provided by cellular
phone companies. But cell phone towers and the signals they transmit
can be few and far between in the sometimes hilly terrain traversed
by the Altamont Commuter Express.
Man-made terrain blocked the signal to Steve Rodriguez's laptop
as the train pulled into the downtown Stockton station earlier this
month. ...