{"id":98881181,"date":"2011-03-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/london-underground-to-be-wi-fi-ready-in-time-for-olympic-games\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T06:25:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T10:25:53","slug":"london-underground-to-be-wi-fi-ready-in-time-for-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/london-underground-to-be-wi-fi-ready-in-time-for-olympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"London Underground to be Wi-Fi Ready in Time for Olympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a successful trial at Charing Cross Station, the London Underground is inviting companies to bid on a contract to provide network-wide Wi-Fi internet in the Tube by 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The plan would allow passengers to surf the web on mobile devices and laptops at over 120 stations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Concerns over the increased risk of terrorism and identity theft that might accompany internet service in the Tube were quickly dismissed by officials.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Access to mobile and data networks is already common on many world metros and our customers tell us they would welcome this,\u201d a Transport for London spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-london-12856289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">BBC <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a successful trial at Charing Cross Station, the London Underground is inviting companies to bid on a contract to provide network-wide Wi-Fi internet in the Tube by 2012. &nbsp; The plan would allow passengers to surf the web on mobile devices and laptops at over 120 stations. &nbsp; Concerns over the increased risk of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897558,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881181\/revisions\/98897558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}