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[trinityvixen]

They're pushing ahead with wiring the subways for cellular phone service.

There ought to be some common sense here. Number 1 rule of cell phones is: Never use them in an enclosed space populated with strangers. You annoy them, you embarrass yourself, and nobody wins. Why put this in the subway? Why? It's this, and then we'll be listening to assholes on the phone on airplanes, too, just you watch....

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[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

The Washington D.C. Metro is already wired for Verizon, and I was surprised that only a few people seemed to be taking advantage of it. It was actually less annoying than it is on Metro North. My main concern with this is it's impossible to hear anything on a subway. If I listen to music I have to turn it way up because the train is so loud; when I'm on an elevated (and everyone else automatically pulls out their cells along with me) I can only use the cell for something that can't wait, because it's so hard to hear and be heard.

Plus, NYers are generally loud and annoying, so this probably won't be fun. It's annoying enough when people talk on the buses...or occasionally in movie theaters.

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

Movie theaters have been pushing to be allowed to install signal-jammers, which are generally illegal. I assume the default ban is for public safety reasons...I guess if they're allowed you really won't be able to call fire in a crowded theater. HAHAHAHA. Sorry.

As for the subway, at least most NYers are loud and annoying enough to tell people talking too loud on the phone to shut the hell up. :P

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

And they'll be saying, "What? What? I can't hear you. What? Can you repeat that?"

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yes. Because clearly we need to waste expensive cell phone minutes on that.

At least the MTA is making the bidders pay for it. Like they need any more publicity about wasted monies on their end...

[cbreakr.livejournal.com]

This is a bad idea, whose house do we need to firebomb to stop this?

[slackwench.livejournal.com]

It probably still won't work in the trains themselves. They say they want cell service in the stations, but the trains are metal, and therefore Faraday cages. That means they block radio intrinsically. I've been in stations where I got reasonable reception only to lose it as soon as I got on the train.

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

Some sort of repeater could bring the signal into the train easily enough. It says the bidders need to include proposals for eventually bringing the signal into the tunnel; I'm sure that actually having it work on the train would be part of that.

[slackwench.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

You just had to crush my optimism, didn't you?

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

Number 1 rule of __________ is: Never use them in an enclosed space populated with strangers. You annoy them, you embarrass yourself, and nobody wins.

It just occurred to me just how many things this rule can apply to.... nyahaha