Dotted around London, there are a number of private hotels that aren’t the sort of hotel you might expect – they’re needed to make mobile phones work on the London Underground.
It says early on in rhe article that they lease to the mobile networks. It also mentions the emergency network and that it’s critical infrastructure so that lay two leaky cables for redundancy, this extra cost implies to me that the whole project likely has significant government funding. Plus they mention replacing staff radios, and there would be a big selling point for the underground itself having mobile coverage for customers, so I’m thinking they also would have provided funding.
I wonder how they finance it. I guess the owner charges a fee to the mobile phone networks
It says early on in rhe article that they lease to the mobile networks. It also mentions the emergency network and that it’s critical infrastructure so that lay two leaky cables for redundancy, this extra cost implies to me that the whole project likely has significant government funding. Plus they mention replacing staff radios, and there would be a big selling point for the underground itself having mobile coverage for customers, so I’m thinking they also would have provided funding.