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Old March 26th 12, 04:09 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Michael R N Dolbear Michael R N Dolbear is offline
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Default London Overground stations to get free Wi-Fi

Roland Perry wrote

on Mon, 26 Mar 2012, Recliner remarked:


After the recent news about temporarily free Wi-Fi in some

Underground
stations, it seems that Overground passengers will get an hour's

free
Internet access with Wi-Fi hotspots at all stations on the network,
operated by BskyB-owned public Wi-Fi provider, The Cloud -- and

it'll
apparently stay free.


This scheme of "Register, then get the first hour free" is

reminiscent
of the earlier discussion Wetherspoons etc. No doubt they want
people to leave their smartphones switched on and pay for subsequent
hours of access.



But while spending over an hour in a Wetherspoons is commonplace,
spending that time in an Overground station isn't, even for a daily
total. The currently running BBC Radio 3 Schubert music and biography
fest reminded me of the custom of spending all day in a coffee-house
for the price of one coffee and Caffe Nero is free for any length of
time.

Google pointed me to "all 56 Overground stations" - does this include
jointly used stations like Canada Water and Highbury & Islington ?


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Mike D