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Lord Carter seeks to bring mobile broadband into the lives of commuters in London underground Tube trains. The Digital Britain report, which was released recently, has announced that in order to make the UK a leader in digital technology it was important to give fast broadband to everyone during travel.

The report suggests improving the present internet coverage in the city Tubes, which is quite unreliable currently and works only on the main lines. As a result, the commuters cannot do their normal online work while they are in the Tube trains (click for Virgin dongle info). The report aims at completing this job by 2012 when London is scheduled to hold the Olympic Games, which may be the most digitalized Olympics ever.

The proposal has emphasised this need to the government, which had refused to fund the project earlier. Many times in the past, the issue of internet connectivity in the London Underground had been brought up and rejected. The government had cited the shaky economic situation as reasons for rejecting the project.

However, the suggestion made by the report and the aim of making London completely digitalized by the Olympic Games seems to have caused the government to support the initiative. The government now wants to enlist the help of broadband subscribers to make this endeavour a success.