VMO2 plugs in 4G and 5G to bits of the London Underground
UK telco group VMO2 joins the party of operators piping in 4G and 5G connectivity to the London Underground Network.
UK telco group VMO2 joins the party of operators piping in 4G and 5G connectivity to the London Underground Network.
UK operator EE is now piping in 5G to Archway and Tufnell Park on the Northern line, and Notting Hill Gate on the Central line.
UK operator EE will pipe in 4G to new London Underground stations on the Central and Northern lines.
A new deal with Infrastructure firm BAI Communications, who handles the network in the Underground, will mean Vodafone and VMO2 customers will be able to make calls on the tube.
Telecoms group BT has signed a multi-million pound contract to deliver data centre facilities to infrastructure firm BAI Communications, which is masterminding the plan to get 4G on the underground.
UK Operators Three and EE have teamed up with infrastructure firm BAI Communications to pipe in 4G and later 5G to commuters on the tube.
The first trials to bring 4G to the London Underground transport system are now live, offering connectivity to commuters travelling between Westminster and Canning Town stations.
It seems like we have been promised the internet on the London Underground for years, and it might well become a reality in the next couple of months.
We’ve joked before about how desperate Londoners are to avoid conversation, but now there is political clout behind the drive for connecting the London Underground. And it’s more complicated than you would think.
Without the distraction of smartphones Londoners can get dangerously close to talking to each other on the tube, but social interaction shouldn’t be an issue if TfL has anything to do with it.
London’s underground users will gain broadband access for the duration of summer 2012 after a contract was awarded to Virgin Media to provide public access wifi at up to 120 tube station platforms. The firm said that the implementation will come at no cost to the fare or taxpayer.