London is becoming more connected.
Checking your feed has just become easier as phone signal will soon be available across large swathes of the London Underground.
People who use the Tube will be able to get mobile phone signal within most London underground stations and tunnels by the end of 2024.
And there is nothing you need to do to connect to it. If your phone is 4G/5G-compatible, it should connect to the station’s signal automatically.
As it stands, all Elizabeth line stations have coverage with Paddington, Whitechapel, Canary Wharf and Woolwich completing it.
Other stations that will receive full coverage are stops on the Victoria and Piccadilly lines, with more to follow in central London later this month.
Transport for London (TfL) said that by the end of the summer, large sections of the West End and southern end of the Northern line will be connected.
Users currently have 4G and 5G mobile coverage in stations and tunnels on sections of the Jubilee, Central and Northern lines and 4G in some Elizabeth line stations.
Jubilee line
From Westminster to Canning Town on platforms and connecting tunnels.
Central line
Stations from Holland Park to Bank have 5G connectivity.
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Northern line
From Archway to Tottenham Court Road and Belsize Park to Tottenham Court Road.
In Liverpool Street, Farringdon, Tottenham Court Road and Bond Street stations.
Parts of the Piccadilly line at Covent Garden and the Victoria line between Warren Street and Euston have just gone live.
The Piccadilly line will gain more coverage between Piccadilly Circus and Hyde Park corner on the Picadilly line, which TfL says will go live in the coming weeks.
The department also said that mobile coverage at Bank, Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus stations will go live by summer 2024.
Stockwell to Morden will go live on the Northern line soon and work is set to start soon on the Bakerloo line.
Of the 121 Tube stations, around 31 have underground mobile coverage, but when combined with Tube stations which are above ground this will cover around 80% of stations across the network.
Cabling and thousands of radios are being fitted into stations and tunnels overnight by 500 TfL staff work overnight installing more than 2,000 kilometres (1,242 miles) of wires since work began in 2022.
Three UK, EE, Vodafone, and Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) are the networks taking part in the rollout.
Tube lines have been opened since 1863, and was the world’s first underground passenger railway
According to TfL, the busiest station is Waterloo which has around 100.3 million passengers per yer
The longest escalator is in Angel, at 60m and the shortest is in Stratford, which is 4.1 meters
Much of the central London network was completed in the first 50 years, all through private development
Around 260 Tube stations and all London Overground stations except for Emerson Park and Haggerston have customer Wi-Fi available in ticket halls, passenger corridors and platforms.
Elizabeth Line stations at Farringdon, Tottenham Court Road, Woolwich, Canary Wharf, Paddington, Whitechapel, Custom House, Bond Street and Liverpool Street all have Wi-Fi.
