A piece on the Daily Telegraph about how this will be introduced in time for the 2012 Olympics. I will believe this when I see (and use) it. It's come up every few years as long as I have been working in telecoms, and it never seems to actually happen. Lots of commercial, business model issues (who pays who, and for what) to sort out.Note to bemused non-Londoners; although it's possible to use mobile phones on most underground systems in the world, that doesn't apply in London.
In any case, I am not sure that this will do much to promote the use of public transport. Surely no-one gets in their car for a journey because they wouldn't be able to make mobile calls if they had taken the tube? And no-one flies across from London to Paris because of the twenty minutes underground that they can't use their mobile?
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