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O2 announces Glasgow Subway coverage

Underground calls from December

10 September 2008 9:17 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott

O2 has announced that their customers in the Glasgow Subway will soon be the first in the UK to use their mobile phones underground as part of a new ground-breaking deal.

O2 will be the first mobile phone operator in the UK to utilise the multi-user distributed antenna system which enables mobile phones to work underground.

O2 services will be installed in five of Glasgow’s Subway stations - Buchanan Street, St Enoch, Kelvinbridge, Hillhead and Partick.

The installation will go live in December 2008 and could potentially provide a benchmark for rollout in other underground stations such as London, in the future.

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