{"id":640171,"date":"2013-01-25T05:21:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T10:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=126181"},"modified":"2013-01-25T05:21:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T10:21:17","slug":"virgin-media-to-begin-charging-for-wi-fi-on-the-london-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/640171","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media to begin charging for Wi-Fi on the London Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-126182\" title=\"virgin wifi\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/virgin-wifi-300x171.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/>Introduced in time for last year\u2019s Olympics, Virgin Media\u2019s free <a href=\"http:\/\/my.virginmedia.com\/wifi\/index.html\" >Wi-Fi service<\/a> has proven to be a big hit with people travelling on the tube, but all good things come to an end, and this particular gravy train is about to terminate. Well, for some people at least.<\/p>\n<p>Although Virgin will be ending its free-to-all Wi-Fi service from Tuesday (29 January), the good news is if you\u2019re a Virgin Media broadband or mobile customer, or are with EE (Orange and T-Mobile), or Vodafone, you\u2019ll be able to continue to use it for gratis. So that\u2019s bad news for O2 and 3 subscribers in particular.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve used the free Wi-Fi before and are on one of the supported carriers, you should receive an email telling you the service will still be free for you (if you haven\u2019t already). If you\u2019re with another operator, you can still use the Wi-Fi but it will cost you \u00a32 for a day\u2019s access, \u00a35 for a week, or \u00a315 for a monthly Virgin Media Wi-Fi Pass.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin plans to beef up its Wi-Fi service over the coming months, adding hotspots to a further 28 stations by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=LqbJcPwZr54:xWQCwmHrrdU:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=LqbJcPwZr54:xWQCwmHrrdU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/LqbJcPwZr54\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduced in time for last year\u2019s Olympics, Virgin Media\u2019s free Wi-Fi service has proven to be a big hit with people travelling on the tube, but all good things come to an end, and this particular gravy train is about to terminate. Well, for some people at least. Although Virgin will be ending its free-to-all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}