The results:
Yes: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 35%
No: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 65%
Bringing mobile phone signal to the London Underground has long been planned, while WiFi coverage was rolled out on a trial basis at Charing Cross Tube Station last November.
TfL announced last month that it was inviting telecoms companies to tender for WiFi provision at up to 120 stations across the network by June 2012.
However, it seems the plans to install mobile access on the tube in time for the Olympics have been shelved.
Transport for London and the interested mobile operators have agreed that the project will be too complex and costly to roll out. As such, plans for the underground mobile network have been abandoned.
Independent research commissioned by Broadband Expert reveals that 70% of Londoners will be disappointed by the news, although readers of Rail.co voted 65% against mobile access.
The majority of readers of Rail.co believed that we don’t really need mobile phone access on the Tube.
One reader commented: “Mobile access on the Underground could be a severe security risk. Do we really need to risk this for the sake of a few minutes of being ‘off line’?”
