(26 Oct 2020, 8:43 pm)mb134 wrote I can see both sides of it. For people that use it, it'll be a miss initially but I'd imagine the majority of people will be fine using their mobile data, particularly on smaller hope.
The issue comes where someone has run out of data, for example, and needs to access their m-ticket. There have been a few instances recently where the Stagecoach app has inexplicably signed me out as I'm about to board a bus, leading to me having to frantically log back in and bring up the ticket. There's a whole load of issues here if there's no on-board WiFi: Forgotten password? You're screwed. No signal? You're screwed. Need to buy a new ticket? You get the picture.
I do understand the rationale behind removing WiFi from services where people are on for 10-15 minutes and for the most part probably just use data, however there are a number of glaring omissions in that list where WiFi will surely be missed and people might switch to the train as a result.
Yeah all valid points to be fair, mind I definitely wouldn't be using a mobile ticketing app if I had no data, risky as hell. I do think over the next year or so we'll see the use getting less and less though now that unlimited and high data plans are getting cheaper and cheaper.
Mind if you don't have signal though there's probably no WiFi though as they both use mobile networks.
Assuming with the longer routes we're talking about the 10 (Inverness to Aberdeen) and the Wick one (forgot it's number) which I agree with as you could easily use laptop on them tbh and they're pretty much coach services anyway.