On 15/03/2012 09:54, Paul Corfield wrote:

On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:35:03 -0700 (PDT), Offramp
wrote:

Will this mean all Londoners buying a Pay as you go Virgin Sim?
I think it will!

Not all of them - if you're on Virgin already you'll not be changing.
If people only want travel info then they'll get that for free. It
will be interesting to see what the scope of that "travel info" will
be - tube? bus? rail?

As a Virgin mobile customer I'm quite happy to see this deal as being
able to check ahead for bus departure info will be very helpful.

As a non-Virgin mobile customer, I'd like the free travel info portal to
provide as much info as possible, obviously!

Access to Countdown / Live Bus Departures would be great, as would
access to National Rail Live Departure Boards - the latter is perhaps
less likely as it isn't something that's currently offered via the TfL
site. Hopefully it'll at least offer TfL Journey Planner, which would be
useful for checking NR train times whilst on journeys deep into the
centre of the earth.


What is slightly odd is that LUL's contract for its staff is with
O2 - which must be feeling as cold as liquid oxygen at the moment.

Does this mean that Virgin is going to replace O2 as LUL's mobile
provider?

I doubt it as I'd expect the contracts to be completely different in
scope and timescales. At some point I'd expect the mobile contract to
be retendered but that should be an open competition across suppliers.
AIUI Virgin use the T Mobile network for mobile coverage so I'd be
surprised if they were to tender for a mobile contract.

Yep, Virgin is an MVNO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_virtual_network_operator