Orange the mobile providers have ideas of offering 2G and 3G network systems inside the Channel Tunnel.
This meant that the people who travel by foot on Eurostar and the vehicle drivers of the Eurotunnel would be in a position to utilise their mobile phones when they were a hundred meters under English Channel.
The mobile phone provider Orange would supply the 2G and the 3G network systems in the Channel Tunnel (PA).
The distance of 53 kilometres that stretches between Calais and Folkestoke would take about half an hour to be covered and with this new facility, travellers would be in a position to make calls via their mobile phones as well as avail access to the Internet while they were in the Tunnel.
As per what Orange has to say, Ofcom and its counterpart in France, Arcep and ANFR had agreed upon a unique regulatory structure to disburse the requisite range for the implementation of the whole project.
Nevertheless, the people of Britain who wish to utilize the network or browse the Internet may have to pay roaming fees from the moment they penetrate the tunnel, whereas the users of orange in France would be able to utilise the facility at their normal rates.
The laying of the broadcast cable and installation of the optical repeaters that were 72 in numbers did not take even ten months and there was no obstruction to train traffic during this period.
The chairman and Chief Executive of Eurotunnel stated that they proud about the fact that they were in a position to provide were novel means of communications on the trains.
This declaration came just a few days since the announcement of O2’s strategies to offer the residents in the West End of London with accessibility to Wi-Fi facilities free of cost while the Olympic Games were in progress in London.
