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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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[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?