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How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground

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Re: How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground

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Post by kalleboo »

dotBen wrote: post #8

One of the frustrating things about international roaming in the UK is typically your plan does not include coverage on this neutral network on the underground

I was thinking it could be a radio band issue?

I had a fun situation when I had friends visiting me in Japan for a road trip. One friend's US-model Android phone didn't support the specific low bands used for sparse coverage in rural Japan, but the repeaters inside of the tunnels were all on standard 2100 MHz, so whenever we drove through a tunnel he rushed to his phone to get some messages through. Kind of the opposite to what you usually experience with loss of signal in tunnels :)

Re: How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground

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Post by dbish »

edent wrote: post #13
dbish wrote: post #5

Pretty neat but as someone who commutes every day on the New York subway I hope it’s never “cracked” here. Phone usage without headphones is already annoying enough and I greatly appreciate the various people trying to take calls eventually lose service.

Why is your need for silence more important than other people's need to communicate?

Simply being polite. Understanding there are other people in the world you inhabit. Things like that.

Re: How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground

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Post by kotaKat »

dbish wrote: post #5

Pretty neat but as someone who commutes every day on the New York subway I hope it’s never “cracked” here. Phone usage without headphones is already annoying enough and I greatly appreciate the various people trying to take calls eventually lose service.

Bad News! They already ruined that one.

https://www.boldyn.com/us/news/at-t-and-boldyn-networks-brin...

Re: How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground

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Post by throw567643u8 »

cm2187 wrote: post #66
LightBug1 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A third of the time? Sorry, nonsense. I use the tube several times a day and it's a real rarity. I do worry about the tube becoming a cacophony of phone calls, but really? Everyone message now anyway so I reckon that'll be a rarity too.

It may also be highly dependent on which direction you travel. When you travel east from the city, you get totally different demographics than when you travel west.

Yes, the demographic plays a big role.

Re: How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground

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Post by hotstickyballs »

dgxyz wrote: post #87
MagnumOpus wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One might even suspect that the particularly nice parts of London are full of NIMBYs who successfully petition against the eyesore of mobile masts being put up… (Circumstantial evidence is that a particularly extra nice part of central London has no tube station, ostensibly to keep the riff-raff out, and is the only area with a proposed station on Crossrail 2 that voted against having a new station!)

There's plenty of riff raff here. Like me :)

That directly goes against the earlier post where you said you lived in a particularly nice part of town

Re: How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground

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Post by immibis »

LightBug1 wrote: post #74
cm2187 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It may also be highly dependent on which direction you travel. When you travel east from the city, you get totally different demographics than when you travel west.

Really? What do you mean?

They mean more immigrants live in certain neighbourhoods.

Re: How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground

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Post by immibis »

trueismywork wrote: post #29
userbinator wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine trying to live your life where other people’s desires by default overrode you own. Unfortunately that happens a lot; it's called the government.

Collective vs individuals desires

Collectivism killed hundreds of millions of people, so I'll take individualism thanks.

Re: How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground

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Post by HPsquared »

dgxyz wrote: post #64
SecondHandTofu wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like many of London's woes, that's because of planning, councils have to approve infrastructure and block it: https://www.londoncentric.media/p/why-exactly-is-londons-pho... I'd say it's developing-world tier, but a lot of the developing world has really good 5G signal these days.

There are also some absolute morons out there. Couple of local things around me... First I went to one of the local town planning meetings in my area when they were rolling out FTTC. This one was due to a rather old person objecting to the placement of a streetside box which was not even outside her property and no one who it would have affected could see it or cared about it. I raised my objections about her being a…

PvP systems are absolutely exhausting. What a waste of energy
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