{"id":11817,"date":"2012-06-05T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingatlantic.ca\/?p=11817"},"modified":"2013-01-21T04:57:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T08:57:27","slug":"urban-planet-wifi-on-londons-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2012\/06\/05\/urban-planet-wifi-on-londons-underground\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Planet: WiFi on London&#8217;s Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2011\/04\/12\/the-outside-in-of-6080\/8595-revision-15\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8616\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"londonwifi\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/uploads\/atlantic\/londonwifi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/?attachment_id=25153\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"feature-urban-planet\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/feature-urban-planet.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WiFi access is beginning to roll out for commuters on London&#8217;s underground. This follows Mayor Boris Johnson&#8217;s announcement earlier this year that 80 stations would have free wireless internet access in time for this summer&#8217;s Olympics. The service will be provided by Virgin Media and continues to undergo testing until its official launch. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocket-lint.com\/news\/45870\/virgin-media-wi-fi-london-underground-works\">PocketLint<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocket-lint.com\/news\/45870\/virgin-media-wi-fi-london-underground-works\">PocketLint<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><em>For more stories from around the planet, check out Spacing on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Spacing\/111174192229238\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Spacing\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 Do you have an Urban Planet worthy article you&#8217;d like to share? Send the link to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:urbanplanet@spacing.ca\">urbanplanet@spacing.ca<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues. WiFi access is beginning to roll out for commuters on London&#8217;s underground. This follows Mayor Boris Johnson&#8217;s announcement earlier this year<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2012\/06\/05\/urban-planet-wifi-on-londons-underground\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Urban Planet: WiFi on London&#8217;s Underground&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5864],"tags":[5452,684,5451,671,565,1648,1174,464,5450],"class_list":["post-11817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-boris-johnson","tag-facebook","tag-free-wireless-internet-access","tag-london","tag-mayor","tag-olympics","tag-twitter","tag-urban-planet","tag-virgin-media"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Urban Planet: WiFi on London&#039;s Underground - Spacing Atlantic<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2012\/06\/05\/urban-planet-wifi-on-londons-underground\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Urban Planet: WiFi on London&#039;s Underground - Spacing Atlantic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. 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