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Nearly half of the author Underground's 270 stations are existence equipped with Wi-Fi admittance ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games.

London Underground commuters got their first taste of covert cyberspace admittance in October 2010, when a six-month effort funded by U.K. broadband assist BT brought Wi-Fi hotspots to the Northern and Bakerloo line platforms, as well as the ticket hall at the bicentric author station.

The effort has since been deemed "successful," and today the author Underground is tantalizing telecom companies to bid for a lessen that would alter Wi-Fi to 120 of London's stations by June 2012. The winner of the lessen will be announced by the modify of 2011.

Users of the assist will exclusive be healthy to connect to Wi-Fi on the platforms, and not on the trains themselves. For the time six months, admittance has exclusive been free for subscribers of BT's broadband assist with unlimited Fon Wi-Fi minutes, and for BT Openzone customers. Tesco Mobile, 02, Vodafone and Orange subscribers hit also been healthy to admittance the assist via bundled mobile packages.

In May 2010, author mayor Boris President promised that "every lamp post [and] every charabanc kibosh will digit period rattling soon, and before the 2012 Olympics, be Wi-Fi enabled" as part of an effort by to position author as a world cheater in subject innovation.

Meanwhile, Transit Wireless LLC is working with New royalty City Transit to alter Wi-Fi to New royalty City's subway system. Singapore, songster and Tokyo already substance Wi-Fi admittance in their individual subsurface metros.

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[via ZDNet]

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