Here's something that pisses me off. A train weighs hundreds of tons and costs perhaps Β£20 million, yet it's usually better to get wifi on a train by connecting to your own phone, which costs a few hundred pounds and weighs 200g.
My theory is that train companies deliberately make on-train wifi crap so they can claim to some innumerate fuckwits at the DfT that noone uses it, and therefore that they don't need to provide it
Rail companies love to generate bogus data to serve their own ends. Southeastern got rid of First Class, claiming that no-one was buying First Class season tickets. Since this was at the end of the pandemic, this was hardly surprising.
The real reason was it allowed them to put utterly manky single-class "Sprinter" trains - with no tables and five-abreast seating - on the Tunbridge Wells to Charing Cross route.
We're Buffering Britain, and we're going to fix the country's phone signal. Join us.