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HEADLINE: Tfl MUTES INDUSTRY
CALLS FOR MOBILE ON THE UNDERGROUND
Contribution deadline: Now to end
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Abstract: Whether it’s Munich’s U-Bahn, the Parisian Metro or even
Glasgow’s much loved “clockwork orange”, making a call from a mobile phone
whilst simultaneously travelling on an subway train just isn't worth calling
home about for most of the world's urban commuters. So why can't London Transport
get our phone’s working on the Underground?
First proposed by Mayor Livingstone back in 2005
then given a fresh top-up with Digital Britain's pledge to get the tube mobile
friendly in time for the 2012 Olympics, plans to kit out the Underground for
wireless hit the rails again this month with TfL’s claims that "serious technological
hurdles" make the Government’s pledge commercially unviable.
Is getting a mobile signal on the Underground
really beyond the wit of the world's wireless community or is it just that
TfL's mobile plans have been out of credit ever since the
demise of Tube upgrade contractor Metronet?
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