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Despite rumours to the contrary, Virgin’s extended its free Tube Wi-Fi network access through till the end of the year, despite the “Summer of Sport” being done and dusted months ago. The interesting thing is you might get it bundled in for free your home broadband too, even if you’re not with Virgin, next year.
Apparently, Virgin is in talks with other home broadband providers to sell access to its Tube Wi-Fi network, so companies like BT, Sky and TalkTalk can bundle access to the network with their home connection plans. That’s good news for anyone who’s not already on Virgin, and should make it infinitely more useful for the greater population of London, myself included.
Currently 72 stations are Wi-Fi enabled, but that number should expand through the rest of the year. The plan is to cover most, if not all stations, but not to expand into the tunnels, which would be the most useful thing. Still, free is free, but I can’t see myself paying much, if anything, for access past the end of the year, though. [Virgin]
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So far I’ve only used it for G+ Messenger as most webpages haven’t finished loading by the time the train leaves the station…
That’s the problem. They should have done the trains and not the stations.
Seconded. That way if I can cycle fast enough to keep up with a train, I could get free wifi while I commute.
They should just make up for costs using adverts, and keep it up and running forever.
Funnily enough the distance between station platforms on Euston and Warren Street is short enough that wi-fi runs in-between the station tunnels. We were stuck for about 5 minutes between both those stations and I managed to send an email to work stating I was going to be slightly late.
Sky have already promised their own Tube station access. Maybe it was promised on the back of this deal, in which case it was cheeky of them to sell that to me.