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Icomera will fit its Moovera mobile broadband gateways to buses carrying around 1,400 children to school each day. The boxes enable internet access at up to 2Mb/sec.

They also provide GPS tracking, so parents and schools can track a bus’s progress.

“With an increasing number of mobile phones and handhelds supporting Wi-Fi, our investment in Icomera's

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Moovbox enables students to check email, surf the web, and play peer-to-peer games on devices like the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS—all free of charge,” said Ian Mack, managing director at The Green Bus. “More importantly, the built-in GPS functionality of the Moovbox means we can see where our buses are at any time; this feature is being made available on our web site where parents and school staff can securely log in and follow the progress of any particular bus is during its journey via a familiar Google Maps display.”

The Green Bus was established by Mack, a former teacher, in 2005 and now operates bus services for schools throughout the West Midlands, replacing an estimated two thousand car journeys in the process. The 23 routes are designed to travel as close as possible to students’ homes and to remove the need for passengers to change buses en route.