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Tube mobile coverage in time for 2012 Olympics?
News The report adds the government is looking at "cost-effective" ways to support railway rollouts - with one possible option being to make high-speed broadband services part of the rail franchise requirements for train... [17 Jun 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.03.09
Round-Up Everyone who gets a train to work has to put up with the ceaseless aural pollution from commuters' mobiles already, so why should travellers on the underground miss out on the fun? Dear God, please let... [20 Mar 2009]
Paper-free train tickets on track
News One of the UK's largest train ticket retailers, TheTrainLine, is to pilot its secure smart ticketing system TrainLine Smart later in 2008, ahead of its full introduction next year. It will allow rail passengers to link... [04 Jun 2008]
High-tech Tube train means smoother journeys
News The Asset Inspection Train (AIT) will be able to run throughout the day on the London Underground to check tracks at high speeds. A new high-tech inspection train could... [03 May 2007]
Photos: RFID, tablets, handhelds - going down the Tube
Photo It is also using RFID on the train-washing machines at Stratford station. Tube Lines is trialling RFID technology on a small number of Piccadilly line trains to see if it can help with monitoring when a... [01 May 2007]
Photos: How Heathrow Express does wi-fi
Photo Nigel Wallbridge, founder and chairman of Nomad Digital, said this is the first time WiMax has been used to provide a wi-fi network to a train within a tunnel and this opens up the possibility of using this technology on... [24 Apr 2007]
Leader: No hang ups about subterranean mobiles
Leader Equally, those who love the silence of an early morning commuter train have little to fear: once the novelty of the scheme has worn off, there's no reason to think there will be incessant embracing of chatter... [16 Apr 2007]
Use your mobile on the Tube from 2009?
News London Underground will no longer be free of annoying ringtones and shouts of 'I'm on the train' - mobile connectivity is coming to the Waterloo and City line. Richard Parry,... [15 Mar 2007]
Beware iPod thieves, gadget fans warned
News This type of crime often happens in or around public transport so the posters will mainly appear on the London Underground and outside train and bus stations, where people are likely to... [09 Oct 2006]
Mobile phone use irks public transport passengers
News Other frustrations included being unable to get a seat (13 per cent), fellow passengers listening to loud music (13 per cent) and the train or bus being dirty or vandalised (nine per cent). While mobile phone use is... [21 Jul 2006]
Photos: Hong Kong's Octopus card
Photo The card can be used on most of Hong Kong's public transport, including the underground train system. The Octopus card was first introduced in 1997 as a public transport smartcard, much the same as... [29 Jun 2006]
Anti-terror tech gets €15m from EU
News Some of the €15m will be used to fund a project which will research the creation of a security infrastructure to guard train and underground networks against biological, chemical, nuclear or radiological... [03 Aug 2005]
Politicians call for Tube mobile coverage review
News The Madrid train bombing saw mobiles used as detonators, although it was the phones' alarm functions and not any wireless signal which was used to set off the explosives. Transport for London, however,... [28 Jul 2005]
Leader: Tech and terror
Leader We know cellular network availability is rare, at best, on the underground parts of the London Underground and while there are other short-range wireless technologies in many phones... [11 Jul 2005]
London attacks: Were mobiles used to detonate bombs?
News With parallels already being drawn between Thursday's terrorist attacks in London and 2004's Madrid train bombings, mobile phones are being labelled as key weapons in the terrorist's armoury. In a press... [08 Jul 2005]
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