After the recent news about temporarily free Wi-Fi in some Underground
stations, it seems that Overground passengers will get an hour's free
Internet access with Wi-Fi hotspots at all stations on the network,
operated by BskyB-owned public Wi-Fi provider, The Cloud -- and it'll
apparently stay free.

See
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9163614/London-Overground-passengers-to-get-free-WiFi.html

In message , at 11:40:14 on
Mon, 26 Mar 2012, Recliner remarked:
After the recent news about temporarily free Wi-Fi in some Underground
stations, it seems that Overground passengers will get an hour's free
Internet access with Wi-Fi hotspots at all stations on the network,
operated by BskyB-owned public Wi-Fi provider, The Cloud -- and it'll
apparently stay free.

This scheme of "Register, then get the first hour free" is reminiscent
of the earlier discussion Wetherspoons etc. No doubt they want
people to leave their smartphones switched on and pay for subsequent
hours of access.
--
Roland Perry

Roland Perry wrote

on Mon, 26 Mar 2012, Recliner remarked:

After the recent news about temporarily free Wi-Fi in some
Underground
stations, it seems that Overground passengers will get an hour's
free
Internet access with Wi-Fi hotspots at all stations on the network,
operated by BskyB-owned public Wi-Fi provider, The Cloud -- and
it'll
apparently stay free.

This scheme of "Register, then get the first hour free" is
reminiscent
of the earlier discussion Wetherspoons etc. No doubt they want
people to leave their smartphones switched on and pay for subsequent
hours of access.


But while spending over an hour in a Wetherspoons is commonplace,
spending that time in an Overground station isn't, even for a daily
total. The currently running BBC Radio 3 Schubert music and biography
fest reminded me of the custom of spending all day in a coffee-house
for the price of one coffee and Caffe Nero is free for any length of
time.

Google pointed me to "all 56 Overground stations" - does this include
jointly used stations like Canada Water and Highbury & Islington ?


--
Mike D

In message 01cd0b6a$846590a0$LocalHost@default, at 16:09:58 on Mon, 26
Mar 2012, Michael R N Dolbear remarked:
This scheme of "Register, then get the first hour free" is
reminiscent
of the earlier discussion Wetherspoons etc. No doubt they want
people to leave their smartphones switched on and pay for subsequent
hours of access.

But while spending over an hour in a Wetherspoons is commonplace,
spending that time in an Overground station isn't, even for a daily
total.

It's entirely possible the hour would apply to the sum of the Overground
stations visited. And if you have a wifi-enabled smart phone that would
include all the ones en-route.
--
Roland Perry