Re: [89attendees] IETF 89 London - Tube strikes and Oyster cards - rip-off warning

[Arran Cudbard-Bell <[e-mail]>]

On 10 Feb 2014, at 13:43, Michael Richardson <[e-mail]> wrote:

> 
> Mikael Abrahamsson <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>> Oh, and don't forget to add "buying a SIM card", because you need to be
>>> able to call for rescue from the Tube in the case of an unexpected transit
>>> strike!
> 
>> Last time I was in london (two years ago) the cell phone didn't work in the
>> tube. This might have changed:
> 
>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/9323121/London-set-for-mobile-coverage-on-Underground-trains.html
> 
> What I understod was that the London tubes are all hooked up for the
> Intertubes now, all set up for wifi offload of 3G.  This was apparently done
> to deal with load from the 2012 Olympics.  That article is from June 2012,
> only a month or so before that date, so maybe the coverage isn't universal,
> or maybe Alcatel/Lucent didn't know that it was already underway.
> 
> (I heard this situation from a competing equipment vendor)

I've not seen any AL devices on the underground, it's all Cisco. Last time I checked you need to be an EE, Vodafone, or virgin Media subscriber to use the service for free, but i'm sure there's a PAYG service for others.

-Arran