Calling at all stations: tube passengers to get 4G reception from next year
theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/19/callin...
theguardian.comPosted Jul 19, 2019, 10:44 AM UTC
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theguardian.comBritish public transport; rolling out 4g by 2020 while the rest of the world is moving to 5g
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Tbf, 4g isn’t terrible and it’s a lot harder to get it in underground places. Most places with 5g won’t have it underground either
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Sort of feel like you arent comparing apples to apples there. Many places are rolling out 5g, far fewer rolling it out in underground tunnels.
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I think I've answered my own question; the project was originally released to the press in 2017 when it was due to be launched this year. 5G was still in test stages at that point; I wonder if it's possible now to upgrade their network more easily on the next investment.
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Worse: mid-2020s.
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London: gets functional 4G while the rest of England barely gets usable 3g and the rest if Europe tests 5g.
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Sounds like you need to switch network
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Yeah no kidding. I just got back from Greece where I had full 4g virtually everywhere. In my house and my city centre here in England, half a bar of 3g tops. Fabulous.
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Can confirm; I had better 4G in Peru than I did in the UK.
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I'd rather have air conditioning.
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Where are you going to pump that heat? The problem is that the surrounding earth has been heated by 150 years of braking. It'll take serious engineering work to remove that energy from the ground. (Using it for geothermal heating is not a terrible idea, but potentially expensive)
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hope fully the signal is shite, would still like to use my " just going on the underground cant talk " excuses
I cant see people using it for calls, the tube is still very loud so conversation on a phone would be quite difficult. I assume most people will just be web browsing/streaming.
you've not met a lot of arseholes , the tube being loud will just mean they are extra loud
That and having some muppet have a loud conversation right next to you for 15 minutes... not my idea of fun.
In my experience of living in Madrid, this generally doesn't happen.
Will the amount of people using it at one time have an impact on it? And moving to different sources like on trains when you go from mast to mast, my phone says 4G but it acts like I've got it in airplane mode until I've made proper contact with the new mast etc
Madrid's network works flawlessly.
The deafening levels on the tracks make it impossible to talk to the person next to you, let alone on the phone.