On 29 Oct, 02:06, Matthew Dickinson
wrote:
BTOpenzone are starting a six month trial of Wifi access at Charing
Cross tube station. Access is to be available in the ticket hall and
on the Northern and Bakerloo platforms.

Seehttp://seekbroadband.com/focus/2010/10/29/ispwatch/london-underground...

for more details.

I thought that BT Openzone cost a bomb.

On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:59:40 -0700 (PDT)
Offramp wrote:
On 29 Oct, 02:06, Matthew Dickinson
wrote:
BTOpenzone are starting a six month trial of Wifi access at Charing
Cross tube station. Access is to be available in the ticket hall and
on the Northern and Bakerloo platforms.

Seehttp://seekbroadband.com/focus/2010/10/29/ispwatch/london-underground...

for more details.

I thought that BT Openzone cost a bomb.

People would probably be better off spending money on psychiatric sessions
if they can't go 30 mins without accessing the internet.

B2003

In message , at 12:35:59 on Fri, 29 Oct
2010, d remarked:
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:59:40 -0700 (PDT)
Offramp wrote:
On 29 Oct, 02:06, Matthew Dickinson
wrote:
BTOpenzone are starting a six month trial of Wifi access at Charing
Cross tube station. Access is to be available in the ticket hall and
on the Northern and Bakerloo platforms.

Seehttp://seekbroadband.com/focus/2010/10/29/ispwatch/london-underground...

for more details.

I thought that BT Openzone cost a bomb.

Depends on your plan (as ever). From 1p a minute on the £5/month plan,
to 0p (if you are on an unlimited deal).

People would probably be better off spending money on psychiatric sessions
if they can't go 30 mins without accessing the internet.

These days people use the Internet to check things like train
timetables, and live departure boards. Or so I'm told. Will never catch
on ;-)
--
Roland Perry

On 30 Oct, 19:52, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 12:35:59 on Fri, 29 Oct
2010, remarked:

On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:59:40 -0700 (PDT)
Offramp wrote:
On 29 Oct, 02:06, Matthew Dickinson
wrote:
BTOpenzone are starting a six month trial of Wifi access at Charing
Cross tube station. Access is to be available in the ticket hall and
on the Northern and Bakerloo platforms.


People would probably be better off spending money on psychiatric sessions
if they can't go 30 mins without accessing the internet.

These days people use the Internet to check things like train
timetables, and live departure boards. Or so I'm told. Will never catch
on ;-)
--

If you're already at the station, it's a bit late to start going
online to check whether trains are running!

In message
, at
06:00:43 on Sun, 31 Oct 2010, solar penguin
remarked:
These days people use the Internet to check things like train
timetables, and live departure boards. Or so I'm told. Will never catch
on ;-)

If you're already at the station, it's a bit late to start going
online to check whether trains are running!

You would be checking the times at whatever National Rail station you
were heading for. For example, Kings Cross if heading north on the
Bakerloo (change at Oxford Circus).
--
Roland Perry

In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

People would probably be better off spending money on psychiatric
sessions if they can't go 30 mins without accessing the internet.

These days people use the Internet to check things like train
timetables, and live departure boards. Or so I'm told. Will never
catch on ;-)

Can't you do that on your phone?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 10:54:12 -0500,
wrote:

Can't you do that on your phone?

Not on the Tube. Which is, to be fair, often a time when I'd want to
check out the next bit of my journey...

Neil
--
Neil Williams in Milton Keynes, UK
To reply put my first name before the at.

In message , at 10:54:12
on Sun, 31 Oct 2010, remarked:
People would probably be better off spending money on psychiatric
sessions if they can't go 30 mins without accessing the internet.

These days people use the Internet to check things like train
timetables, and live departure boards. Or so I'm told. Will never
catch on ;-)

Can't you do that on your phone?

Oh do keep up Colin! Not on the platform at a tube station!!

But if one had a phone or other handheld device which can use wifi, then
that's exactly what one might find it handy for.

ps I can't do it on *my* phone (even up at ground level) because I don't
have an affordable data plan But I've narrowly avoided getting an
iPad, and that would be just the kind of application.
--
Roland Perry

On Oct 31, 4:45*pm, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 10:54:12
on Sun, 31 Oct 2010, remarked:

People would probably be better off spending money on psychiatric
sessions if they can't go 30 mins without accessing the internet.

These days people use the Internet to check things like train
timetables, and live departure boards. Or so I'm told. Will never
catch on ;-)

Can't you do that on your phone?

Oh do keep up Colin! Not on the platform at a tube station!!

But if one had a phone or other handheld device which can use wifi, then
that's exactly what one might find it handy for.

ps I can't do it on *my* phone (even up at ground level) because I don't
have an affordable data plan But I've narrowly avoided getting an
iPad, and that would be just the kind of application.

You don't want to have to whip out an iPad just to check the LDBs
though!

In message
, at
18:10:50 on Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Mizter T remarked:
ps I can't do it on *my* phone (even up at ground level) because I don't
have an affordable data plan But I've narrowly avoided getting an
iPad, and that would be just the kind of application.

You don't want to have to whip out an iPad just to check the LDBs
though!

Plenty of people use upmarket phones for that kind of thing; and the
iPad is at the larger end of the scale, I agree.
--
Roland Perry