UK: Virgin Trains boosts Mobile coverage

Virgin Trains is working with Vodafone to add retransmitters for 2G/3G to 52 of the trains on their fleet - boosting signal strengths for customers. The project, which is due to finish in November, has apparently seen a 60% increase in successfully completed calls. At the same time the carrier is also urging business users to be careful in using the train as a simple extension of their office and discussing confidential matters - apparently 70% of those in 2000 person survey said they had discussed business in public carriages, 20% said they had talked about business-critical subjects, and 15% said they had mentioned confidential information. However the most worrying stat of all was that 26% of people admitted to following up on business leads overheard in other people's conversations!! [Via: SlashPhone ] --- Related Articles at IntoMobile:

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