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The glorious, free Wi-Fi honeymoon period enjoyed by Londoners in many of the city’s stations is about to end, with Virgin Media announcing the full list of prices commuters will have to pay to carry on using it through 2013.
There will be three options when it comes to hurriedly downloading reading material when the train stops at a station to squeeze more sardines into its mobile tins. £2 for one day of access, £5 for a week or £15 for a month. Depending on the length of your commute and how much time you spend milling about on platforms, that’s might be pretty good deal.
The news comes as Virgin announces that another 20 stations have now joined the service, taking the number of Wi-Fi enabled spots that’ll soon be usable by EE and Vodafone customers up to 92. New additions include Camden Town, Mornington Crescent, Balham, Clapham Common, and Russell Square.
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Virgin Media as a broadband customer, it’s free!
finally a benefit of being a Virgin Broadband customer but it means I’d have to start commuting….think I’ll continue to work from home
Not necessarily – it was immensely handy when nipping around London a couple of weeks ago, even if you are only in the station for 30 secs or so.
thats not too bad, but I don’t think those prices are that great.
The prices above, no, definitely not unless you’re a tube driver!
Vodafone and EE make up two thirds of mobile users. Presumably, O2 and 3 will arrange similar deals eventually. I can’t imagine anyone would be foolish enough to pay £15 a month for this. You could probably get a separate EE/Vodafone contract for that much.
It’ll be an even smaller subset of users whom are O2/3 customers and not VM BB customers, therefore also on the free bandwagon
They need to set it up at Clapham Junction. That’s where Londoners spend most of their commute time.
I didn’t think it was commuting that happened in Clapham….
I’d never pay more than £1 for “one day” access (let alone “1 hour” like some hotels offer). BT Openzone and Virgin should lower their day rate to £1, they’d probably find a lot more people use it.
Sounds a bit steep to me. Sure it’d be nice to stay connected ALL the time in some ways, but this would mean paying for broadband at home, mobile contract, BT Openzone (trying it out for my Nexus 7 in public areas and not overly impressed) and now this.
I guess I hardly spend any time on public transport so it doesnt mean a whole lot to me, but I’m perfectly happy just reading a book on the tube