This morning was a morning when I could have really done with mobiles working on the tube, as I was frantically trying to find out whether our office had been closed because of last night's murder (see below) and I had to make lots of calls to mobiles and have those familiar yet annoying half conversations with people as they were saying "just going into a tunnel" or rather "jst, g-ing ooh ell".
It appears that we might have mobile phones working underground by the end of the year. "BBC London has learned that London Underground (LU) has been in negotiation with the four main mobile phone companies."
In a magnanimous comment the tube's Richard Squire said: "So many people have got mobile phones, we feel from a customer services point of view we're going to have to do this." Nice of them to be so thoughtful particularly if there's a nice little earner in it for them too. "The system could also make money for LU because Orange, O2, T-Mobile and Vodafone would have to rent the space the equipment occupies."
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