The stony silence of travelling on the tube may be heading into the history
books if a trial at Charing Cross Tube station goes well. From 1st November
2010, BT Openzone are teaming up with London Underground to provide Wi-Fi
coverage of the ticket hall area and Northern and Bakerloo platforms at Charing
Cross.
In addition to BT Broadband and Fon users, those with an Openzone
subscription or anyone with Wi-Fi minutes from another provider who has roaming
access to Openzone hot-spots, will be able to use the service.
Charing Cross station handles some 68,000 passengers every day, and for
those who use it as part of a daily commute, the service may be a blessing or a
curse. The underground sections of tube network is one of the last places in
London where you know you can’t be bothered by the phone and email.
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Wifi does not give you acces to calls ! only internet ! (you should know that as an IT news website)
It can via VOIP services, AKA skype…
@cecemf you beat me to it. I don’t really see the point in WiFi on the tube, it’s not like you have any room to do anything on the train anyway.
I know this is off-topic but…
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/broken-telephone/2010/10/by-jove-i-think-theyve-got-it.html
Scotland is scrapping fibre tax, and a quote “No other EU country taxes lit fibre.””
“Briefing Note to Caio on Business Rates on Optical Fibre” document on the link above is the most interesting read ever!
Oh if only the condems would follow suit.
Can’t see it…
http://tinyurl.com/DigitalScotland
More information on Digital Scotland, they are hoping to aim for 16Mbps by 2015 and 128Mbps by 2020 to all of scotland.
And the reports suggests to just remove the tax although and other ideas in it’s PDF document.
It’s much better than the ‘Digital Britain’ report…
“Scotland gets IT”
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/broken-telephone/2010/10/scotland-gets-it.html
Mobile phones doing voip over wi-fi are pretty common…
I’ve always thought it would be handy if TfL/LU provided a basic wireless service in their platforms. They could use their existing data infrastructure, a couple of WRT54GL type access points and a leaky feeder at the platforms, ticket halls. You could then deliver train information status to iphones/android etc allowing aware apps on our phones to adaptively re-plan journeys to avoid congestion and breakdowns. Another benefit is that the phone would know what station it is at.
Only problem is it’s BT, their wifi is ****.
otester – in what way?
I’ll be amazed if it works. Openzone hot spots are notoriously unreliable.
Not my experience, regularly use them whilst at overground stations and in coffee bars without a problem.
@Somerset
What boeie said.
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I used to be on o2 with my iPhone and BT Openzone hotspots worked flawlessly, then I switched to Vodafone and they were flaky, now I’ve switched to Orange and can hardly use them at all, especially when I have to wait for ages for the login screen and put in my username/password EVERY TIME! This won’t work until the carriers fix it.
wow amazing It’s much better than the ‘Digital Britain’ report.SMART Vehicle Transportation. Covered Vehicle Transportation specialising in Prestige, Classic and Performance Cars.[b][url=http://www.supertransport.co.uk/]car delivery[/url][/b]
@Saltank
With O2 (assuming you had the wifi addon), does it auto-detect.
@cecemf The article makes no claims that WiFi will enable you to make/receive calls. The last sentence is an independent statement.