Manhattan Subways To Be Wired For Cellphone Use

New York Times:

All 277 underground stations in the subway system are to be wired for cellphone use, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced yesterday.

But riders may have to talk fast, because the subway tunnels will not be wired, out of consideration for riders who do not want to be stuck in a subway car full of chattering cellphone users.

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Comments

[dadw5boys]

02:12 PM on 09/20/2007

Watch people fall off the ramp into the trains path while talking.
Don't the terrorist use cell phones to set off bombs?

[ohiomark]

03:01 PM on 09/20/2007

Exactly, way to go Bloomberg, make it easier for them to kill us.

[aftermath]

05:46 AM on 09/21/2007

I was speaking with a man today who brought up how Israeli's put in cell phone jammers to prevent attacks with cell detonators. Nothing like adding to the directed energy soup we live in already I guess.