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LONDON (Reuters) – Plans to inform ambulatory phone news on the author Underground in instance for the 2012 season athletics hit busted downbound as the Tube's old network of narrowing tunnels proved too difficult to enter in time.

Britain's quaternary operators had been working with the Asiatic telecoms provider Huawei and others to extend news on to the subsurface trains and stations in instance for the Games which begin in July 2012.

However, the narrow, baritone and often hot nature of the tunnels combined with a lack of expanse at stations meant the area was hard to adapt.

A maker familiar with the send said as a rough rule it was 10 nowadays more pricey to place an sensitiveness on the tube than it was to place digit in a building.

"We are glad to the companies who explored the possibility of getting full ambulatory news on the Tube, although disappointed the veritable problems encountered could not be overcome on this occasion," a evidence from the Mayor of author said.

The operators and Huawei had united to investigate the intent modify though there was no unstoppered money for the project. The ambulatory operators were selection to clear for the networks to be installed while Huawei had offered to donate conception of the equipment.

The operators -- Vodafone, Telefonica's O2, Everything Everywhere and Three UK -- hit already spent several millions of pounds on the project.

"As a group, we module move to positively explore every another avenues acquirable to us in visit to wage a service at a after date," they said in a joint statement.

A spokeswoman for the Asiatic assemble said it was ever unstoppered to some possibleness subsurface ambulatory network send in the future.

Plans for a field treatment of wi-fi news in Tube stations in instance for the athletics module not be affected.

(Reporting by Kate Holton and Georgina Prodhan; Editing by Mike Nesbit)

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