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It makes me sick to see London bragging about this. This is last century technology, and other cities managed to retrofit this just fine, including of course us
by knorker 9mo ago
It makes me sick to see London bragging about this. This is last century technology, and other cities managed to retrofit this just fine, including of course using leaky cable in the tunnels.
That it took 20-30 years longer than everyone else is through absolute incompetence and mismanagement. It would have been in place at least 10 years ago if they hadn't screwed up the RFP that Huawei won.
And it's not even shared infra! Vodafone is WAY behind the other networks.
I have worked with these things. There's no valid excuse for being 20-30 years behind on this.
And it's still not landed! By the time it finally gets to all stations I wouldn't be surprised if it's 40-50 years behind everyone else.
- everfrustrated 9mo agoThe actual reason it took so long was TFL wanted to rent this to a mobile network to create revenue for themselves. It wasn't enough to be cost-neutral it had to make them money.
- knorker 9mo agoWell the Huawei winning scandal appeared to be real. But also, I wouldn't be surprised. In any case, as I said I have actual expertise in this area, and exactly none of being 20-50 years late has any technical reasons. I'm not surprised if there the layers of incompetence go deeper and include what you said.