Tube to get full mobile network by end of 2024, says London mayor
Passengers on the London underground will have mobile coverage throughout the network by the end of 2024, the mayor of London has said.
Transport for London (TfL) said work on preparing some of the capital’s busiest stations, including Oxford Circus, Tottenham Court Road and Bank, would begin soon, and they would be among the first fully connected stations by the end of next year.
TfL has awarded a 20-year concession to BAI Communications (BAI), a global provider of 4G and 5G connected infrastructure, to counter so-called not-spots in the network.
The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, who was re-elected last month, said: “I promised Londoners that if they re-elected me for a second term as mayor I would deliver 4G throughout the tube network.”
Permanent phone reception was made available on underground sections of London’s tube network for the first time in March last year when the eastern half of the Jubilee line was covered.
Mobile coverage on underground sections of the tube had previously been available only in a short trial on the Waterloo and City line during summer 2017.
