[qasdfdsaq]

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Originally Posted by enapace

Sorry I was just trying doing bad sarcasm when person I quoted said about security concerns.

A mobile activated bomb costs more so it must be better quality!

Especially if it has the super-premium-quality-plastics of an iPhone 5c in it instead of a "cheap plastic" Samsung.

[jonmorris]

Use the Wi-Fi service. You'll often be able to use it for a bit between stations without getting off, and it works fine to check stuff while going up the escalators.

[qasdfdsaq]

There was no wifi service last time I took the London underground But there was mobile service in every continental metro/undergronud service I took at the time.

[Mark C]

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

As opposed to mobile activated bombs on the Spanish or German underground?

Nah, most bombs are timed anyway. I don't see any advantage to mobile activated bombs. Just another potential point of failure, as if we don't have enough already.

Yes, the Madrid train bombs in 2004, used mobile phones, but
the internal built in timers, not anything 'network' activated.

[japaul]

Eurotunnel said that none of the UK networks (even EE and Vodafone) were particularly keen on getting involved in providing coverage in the UK to France leg. It was only after they threatened to offer both legs exclusively to the French networks that things changed.

[qasdfdsaq]

I wonder if they're gonna MBNL/Cornerstone the setup for future use by other networks

[japaul]

MBNL/Cornerstone it? Not sure exactly what you mean. I'd think any network would need their own agreement with Eurotunnel.

[qasdfdsaq]

Maybe, maybe not. Some of the existing estate has been renewed/recontracted on contracts that allow other networks equal access to the site regardless of whether said network is already co-sited there or not

That aside what I really meant was setting up the hardware to be extensible enough for the other networks on the major shares to join later - like the use of dual-user/multi ported antennae and flexible BTS cabs on the existing nationwide network shares.

[japaul]

OK. I think it's almost all shared infrastructure which any network can hook up to. Who owns what I'm not sure but from what Eurotunnel said about having negotiations with O2 and Three but failing to reach an agreement I think it's clear that no network can offer a service without reaching an agreement wit Eurotunnel.

Technically we are talking a leaky feeder system (fibre not coax) with optical repeaters every half a mile or so with a base station at the end (or more likely at both ends if it's the same as the France to UK tunnel).