"The Equalizer" wrote in message
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"Salvation is at hand for Tube commuters bored by the small print on
carriage advertisements and being stuck in tunnels. London Underground is
in
talks with cable company NTL about installing a digital radio network on
the
Tube. Passengers with portable radios will be able to tune in to a range
of
radio stations, and NTL is also considering using the signal to send video
data to handheld computers. Discussions are at an early stage, but Capital
Radio is said to have expressed interest in the venture. Whether witty DJs
will be able to offer distraction from traveling conditions unfit for
cattle
is another matter."

NTL? The same company that is currently in Chapter 11? The same company
that when a customer comes along and offers cash to receive cable TV gets
told that NTL are not accepting new customers? The same company that hasn't
cabled most of the franchises its legacy companies won some years ago? The
company that has an extravagent head office in the US despite most (and not
far short of all) of its business interests being based in the UK and
originally being a UK company.

And they have the money to invest in the Tube? Seeing really will be
believing.