When it comes to underground tunnel, you usually get no reception while commuting in them. But that’s about to change in London as the city’s Mayor has been active in encouraging the major British carriers to install the necessary equipment to provide coverage in the tunnels.

The Daily Telegraph reports that Vodafone, O2, Everything Everywhere, and Three from the UK along with Orange, SFR and Bouygues from France have agreed to share the cost of putting together a £20 million ($30.8m) project for making cellular coverage possible while traveling through the 31.4-mile Channel Tunnel between the two countries.

The goal is to get things up and running by the Olympics in 2012, though we’ve no indication as to what speeds those wireless data transfers will reach. Still, having some bars is better than none, especially when you’re going to travel for long period of time.

SOURCE via Telegraph UK