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London scraps plans for cellular coverage on the tube, bums Huawei out

<img alt="" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/5337/11x0401n8i3bv.jpg" vspace="4">Technical complexity and financial naiveté have meant that London's ambitious plans to cover its underground train network with cellular signal by the 2012 Olympics are hitting the scrapheap. In spite of Huawei's most generous offer to provide £50 million ($81m) of equipment for the project for free, the London Mayor's wish that UK mobile operators be the ones to foot the installation bill -- without a penny coming out of public coffers -- has unsurprisingly found little favor. Compounded with the logistical hellride of trying to get everything up and running by next summer, that's now led to a mutual agreement among all parties concerned to abandon the project. Mind you, the plans to get WiFi up at 120 stations in time for the Olympics are still on track, so at least we'll be able to pull down some data before diving into those dark, damp tunnels.London scraps plans for cellular coverage on the tube, bums Huawei out <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/01/london-scraps-plans-for-cellular-coverage-on-the-tube-bums-huaw/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">via</A>

London scraps plans for cellular coverage on the tube, bums Huawei out

Technical complexity and financial naiveté have meant that London's ambitious plans to cover its underground train network with cellular...

Channel Tunnel to get mobile coverage by 2012 Olympics?

<img src="http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/5391/highblurrytubetunnel200.jpg"> Plans are afoot to bring mobile phone connectivity for passengers travelling on the Channel Tunnel in time for the 2012 London Olympics. The four British networks, Vodafone O2, Everything Everywhere (Orange and T-Mobile) and Three are ready to join forces with their counterparts in France to share the costs of the £20m project. According to a report in today's Daily Telegraph, the plan is to lay out the full 31.4-mile route from Dover to Calais to enable passengers to use their phones throughout the journey. Ofcom gives go-ahead The Telegraph report says that Ofcom is ready give the plan the go-ahead, with French telecoms infrastructure company signed-up to install the tech. London is also testing Wi-Fi on the Tube, with Mayor Boris Johnson keen to make the whole city a wireless hotspot in time for the games in less than two years.

Channel Tunnel to get mobile coverage by 2012 Olympics?

Plans are afoot to bring mobile phone connectivity for passengers travelling on the Channel Tunnel in time for the 2012 London Olympics. The...