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Old August 1st 19, 11:57 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Roland Perry Roland Perry is offline
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Default 4G on the tube

In message , at 11:45:24 on Thu, 1 Aug
2019, Someone Somewhere remarked:

The money to put the 4G on the tube is coming from the much-delayed
Emergency Network project. There isn't any money to install 5G, and
it's far too late to start changing the Emergency Network spec to
include 5G.

That's the kind of thing which makes large government IT projects
even later and more over budget than they already are.


And even more out of date.


It's less out of date than Airwave.

Combined base stations and aerial arrays are already available and they
should have been using those even if they aren't turning on the 5G bit
now.


Even with all this talk of Chinese manufacturers being banned?

This is particularly true as 5G is far better at dealing with high
densities of users which a tube station / train is a rather good
example of.


Are you suggesting the same leaky feeder that might be delivering 4G on
the Tube, could one day be re-purposed to also deliver 5G? In which
case, what's wrong with pressing on installing it.
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Roland Perry