Boris Johnson Backs Away from WiFi for London Underground

BORIS JOHNSON’S plans for WiFi access across London, including on the Tube, have taken a knock from the London Mayor’s own advisers.

Last month Johnson announced schemes for “every lamppost, every bus stop” to get WiFi in a bid to have the whole capital covered by the time of the London Olympics in 2012.

Then earlier this week, the London Mayor backed plans for WiFi hotpsots on London Underground, telling the State of London meeting that he wants people to have “the facility of looking at their Blackberry, or whatever it happens to be” while on the Tube.

But Johnson aides have now poured cold water on the mayor’s WiFi hotspot mania.

“We’re not saying how this might be rolled out or even that it is going to happen,” a spokesperson for the mayor’s office told PC Pro.

“All [Johnson] has done so far is mention it in a couple of meetings to see what people thought. We’re not in a position to move this forward at all without the boroughs.”