{"id":70476,"date":"2025-05-03T06:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T06:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/70476\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T06:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T06:45:10","slug":"hong-kongs-mtr-corp-to-boost-internet-capacity-after-golden-week-ticket-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/70476\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s MTR Corp to boost internet capacity after \u2018golden week\u2019 ticket chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong rail giant the MTR Corporation has pledged to upgrade its internet capacity after scores of travellers, many of whom were mainland Chinese, were stuck at a border station struggling to generate their QR code tickets with an overloaded network during the Labour Day \u201cgolden week\u201d holiday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Passengers at Lok Ma Chau station spent a relatively long time generating their QR code tickets during the rush hour on Friday, the second day of the five-day break, as the mobile data and free Wi-fi at the station could not cope with the huge traffic, according to the railway operator.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cDuring the peak outbound travel period in the evening, the station has intermittently adopted the arrangement of not requiring passengers to tap their cards to exit the gate between about 9.45pm and 10.30pm to ease the crowd,\u201d the operator said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The MTR Corp said it had already contacted its network provider to step up the mobile data capacity, adding it would also double its Wi-fi capacity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Passengers at Lok Ma Chau station spent a long time generating their QR code tickets on Friday. Photo: Facebook\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fb6d8cac-c404-4e47-9280-327a359df15e_4614041c.jpg\" title=\"Passengers at Lok Ma Chau station spent a long time generating their QR code tickets on Friday. Photo: Facebook\"\/>Passengers at Lok Ma Chau station spent a long time generating their QR code tickets on Friday. Photo: Facebook<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Pictures posted on social media showed that Lok Ma Chau station was fully packed with hundreds of travellers on Friday, with some sharing their frustration online.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI expected that there would be many people during the Labour Day holiday, but I did not anticipate the network shutdown. It felt like losing your phone and being unable to do anything,\u201d a user said on Chinese social media platform, RedNote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong rail giant the MTR Corporation has pledged to upgrade its internet capacity after scores of travellers,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3161],"tags":[35315,35311,3082,35320,33795,35310,35316,35321,35312,35313,35317,35309,35319,35308,53,16,15,35314,35318],"class_list":{"0":"post-70476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-border-station","9":"tag-golden-week","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-internet-capacity","12":"tag-labour-day","13":"tag-lok-ma-chau","14":"tag-mainland-visitors","15":"tag-mobile-data","16":"tag-mtr-corporation","17":"tag-octopus-card","18":"tag-passengers","19":"tag-qr-code","20":"tag-railway-operator","21":"tag-rush-hours","22":"tag-technology","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-wechat-pay","26":"tag-wi-fi-capacity"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114442556212774918","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}