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Someone Somewhere · September 11th 17, 02:16 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

On 11/09/2017 14:53, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 13:43:05 on Mon, 11 Sep
2017, d remarked:
It can be SMS,Â* it could even be electronic billboards or display
screens.Â* Imagine walking on to a tube platform, to be greeted by a
display with an advert from Boots - "Hey Someone Somewhere - you haven't
bought Preparation H recently.Â* If your arse grapes are still troubling
you, you'll be pleased to know that we currently have 50p off our jumbo
tube" or similar....

Of course there is always the option - possibly heresy for Millenials
- to
switch off wifi on your phone. I know, its radical, but it might just
work.

You've raised a *very* interesting point. This survey may be of only
that self-selecting subset of passengers who *do* keep their wifi on [on
the tube].

Does the associated article mention whether they attempted to correct
for this built-in bias?

Are you presuming that there is a correlation between whether people
keep wifi on and choose particular routes? If we assume they are
independent then TfLs analysis still stands.

Presumably by analysing ticket data we can see what percentage of
passengers are carrying a device with wi-fi enabled (although in my case
that is often 3 or more - before you ask, personal phone, work phone and
kindle)

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