Request ID: FOI-2080-2223 Date published: 05 December 2022
You asked
Please could you confirm the former locations of "Rabbit Phone" base stations that were at the stations and platforms on the London Underground network. Rabbit was a short lived cordless phone provider operated by Hutchison Telecom that required you being within 200m of one of their base stations, which were situated at shops, train and tube stations etc.
These would have been in place around 1992 - 1993 and operated on frequencies between 864.1 and 868.1 MHz
Thanks
We answered
Our ref: FOI-2080-2223
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 21 November asking for information about former locations of ‘Rabbit Phone’ base stations on the London Underground.
Your request has been considered under the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and our information access policy.
Unfortunately we do not hold the information you require. We don’t have any site maps or plans showing the locations of Rabbit Phones base stations. Information is only held for a maximum of 7 years, or where there is an operational requirement, and therefore we would not hold this information.
However, my colleagues in Corporate Archives have managed to locate some general information in their catalogue and will responded to you directly.
If you are not satisfied with this response please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.
Yours sincerely
Eva Hextall
FOI Case Officer General Counsel Transport for London
