The London Underground sometimes feels like the land that mobile signal forgot.
Locals know the drill. You’re sitting on the Tube waiting for your phone to connect to the patchy-at-best station WiFi so you can hit send on an urgent text before jumping aboard.
But all that could soon become a distant memory. In 2020, the London Underground’s Jubilee line will be graced with full 4G phone signal — a first for London Tube lines.
According to Transport for London (TfL), the eastern half of the city’s Jubilee line will get “full mobile connectivity within station platforms and tunnels for the first time from March 2020.” In a statement, the local government’s transport body said this particular section of the tube — which covers platforms and tunnels between Westminster and Canning Town — is one of the “most high-profile mobile not-spots in the UK.” Read more…
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