On 22 Sep, 11:55, "Recliner" wrote:
"Roy Badami" wrote in message





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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. __________
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23880176-boris-johnson....

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?

I don't think it was ever more than a plan. And I think originally it
was only going to work in stations, not the tunnels between them.

Have they got the emergency services' Tetra radios working in the Tube
yet? This was one of the recommendations post 7/7. Presumably it'd
be relatively easy to piggy-back civilian mobile traffic onto that
infrastructure if it has actually been completed.
--
Roy