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On 22/09/10 11:24, Recliner wrote:
Bad news -- it looks like mobile phones may work on the Tube after all,
according to that ever accurate source, the Evening Standard. So no more
cutting off of noisy phone callers as the train enters the tunnel.
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http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23880176-boris-johnson-wants-mobile-coverage-on-tube-in-time-for-2012.do

Perhaps the Londoners here can set me straight on this.

Back when One2One first launched, it launched as a London-only network.
Its selling point, apart from being cheaper than Cellnet and Vodafone,
was that it claimed better coverage in the capital than the two national
networks.

I have strong recollections that part of that claim was that it worked
on the tube. I remember quite specifically reading about this, down to
(at least some) discussion about the technology and the use of leaky
feeders.

Am I mistaken? Did One2One ever work on the tube, or was that just a
plan that never came to fruition? And if it did work on the tube, what
happened to that infrastructure and why and when did it stop working?

-roy