Web training: German railway operator offers express internet

BERLIN: Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s state-owned railway operator, will rent out a network of fibre optic cables it has laid along its rails to telecoms firms to provide a speedy internet service to companies and homes in remote areas, it said on Tuesday.

The company has built the fibre-optic network over several years, primarily for its own communications and signalling, but also with an eye to renting out the infrastructure at a time when it faces a costly task to upgrade its national railways.