| If you regularly make use of underground train | | | | within the area. |
| services, or 'the tube', then chances are you've noticed | | | | With SPT's help, Glasgow will be the first major city |
| the complete lack of mobile network coverage. | | | | within the UK to provide its subway customers with |
| From a technological point of view this is fully | | | | 2G and 3G network coverage. |
| understandable, as the networks that provide us with | | | | The implementation of the network will begin later this |
| mobile phone coverage weren't designed to reach | | | | month. When complete, customers will be able to use |
| underground. However, when combined with other | | | | their phones at underground stations, just as they |
| technologies, underground coverage is possible. | | | | would above ground, accessing the interest, sending |
| The technology in question is wi-fi, which is cable of | | | | texts and making calls will all be possible. |
| transmitting data, wireless over very lengthy distances. | | | | Arqive, one of the two main broadcasting companies |
| The required cellular network for mobile phone | | | | in the UK, and the ones that have helped make the |
| coverage can be transmitted over wi-fi networks, | | | | underground network possible feel that many more |
| allowing essentially unlimited coverage. | | | | cities would benefit from similar networks. |
| Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT), the public | | | | Amidst concerns over passenger safety, similar plans |
| body which is responsible for planning and co-ordinating | | | | are being made to incorporate the same technology |
| regional and public transport within the Strathclyde area | | | | into the London underground subway. Trails for which |
| of western Scotland has recently taken steps to | | | | are suspected to begin later this year. |
| incorporate such technologies into 15 subway stations | | | | |