Johnson welcomes mobiles on Tube

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2011&sol;02&sol;johnson-welcomes-mobiles-on-tube&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full" title&equals;"London Mayor Boris Johnson has cautiously welcomed plans to extend mobile phone coverage to parts of the Tube network" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2011&sol;02&sol;min-johnson-welcomes-mobiles-on-tube&period;jpg" alt&equals;"London Mayor Boris Johnson has cautiously welcomed plans to extend mobile phone coverage to parts of the Tube network"&sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Extending mobile phone coverage to underground sections of the Tube network is &&num;8220&semi;the way to go&&num;8221&semi;&comma; London Mayor Boris Johnson has said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Tory politician extended a cautious welcome to proposals to install transmitters in time for the 2012 Olympics&comma; but he warned that engineers face enormous technical challenges because of the narrow tunnels trains operate in&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking at Finsbury Park Tube station&comma; Mr Johnson added that some passengers may not welcome the change&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;It is commercially difficult&comma; it is technically difficult and I am urging caution&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;In the long run&comma; if you look at other big cities&comma; they all have mobile phones working on Tubes&period; We have been unable to do it because our tunnels are so narrow&comma; but in the long run it is progress&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We have got to be clear&comma; a lot of people will not be completely enthusiastic about having mobile phones on the Tube&period; I think it is the way to go and we have got to give people the ability to text and perhaps have some coverage for voice telephony&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Chinese telecoms firm Huawei has reportedly offered to install a £50 million phone network for free as a gift from one Olympic nation to another&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Transport for London &lpar;TfL&rpar; officials said discussions are under way but private companies must foot the bill with no additional costs for passengers or London taxpayers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Digital emergency service radios work underground after new technology was installed as a result of recommendations made after the July 7 attacks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But one MP&comma; Conservative Patrick Mercer&comma; warned a public network could help terrorists by allowing them to detonate a device underground remotely&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e64cd3803fc">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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