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[h1]via Gawker:
[/h1][h1]Our Worst Nightmare Realized: Subway Stations and Tracks To Have Cell Service, Wi-Fi[/h1]
Notonly will the city's subway stations be rigged to support your handheldelectronic devices, but chatty citizens will be allowed to make callsin between stops, too. Is there anything worse than this?
The MTA reached a deal with a company called Transit Wirelessthree years ago to enable cell phone service in subway stations, butthe firm never proceeded with the plans. Now it's back on the frontburner, apparently, and the plans are even more ambitious than beforeconsidering they're planning to install both phone signal and internet accessunderground. And where the stops are close enough together—and thetunnels are wider—riders should have coverage during their entireunderground journey, says an official from Q-Wireless, one of the fourcompanies working with Transit Wireless to install the subterraneantransmissions. This is a travesty. For many people the subway is theonly place to not only get away from the nagging of your own iPhone orDroid, but also to end all the chattering, inane conversations of yourfellow citizens.
Under the current deal, Transit Wireless has two more years toinstall the technology in six test stations and then eight years towire all 277 subway stations. Cell phonesin stations we can kind of understand, but allowing people to haveconversations while commuting may bring about the end civilization aswe know it. And, really, why does the subway need wi-fi? So that youcan download porn onto your iPad on the 6 Train? Really? Everyone knowsthe subway is for jerking off while looking at real people. Come on!
[/h1][h1]Our Worst Nightmare Realized: Subway Stations and Tracks To Have Cell Service, Wi-Fi[/h1]
The MTA reached a deal with a company called Transit Wirelessthree years ago to enable cell phone service in subway stations, butthe firm never proceeded with the plans. Now it's back on the frontburner, apparently, and the plans are even more ambitious than beforeconsidering they're planning to install both phone signal and internet accessunderground. And where the stops are close enough together—and thetunnels are wider—riders should have coverage during their entireunderground journey, says an official from Q-Wireless, one of the fourcompanies working with Transit Wireless to install the subterraneantransmissions. This is a travesty. For many people the subway is theonly place to not only get away from the nagging of your own iPhone orDroid, but also to end all the chattering, inane conversations of yourfellow citizens.
Under the current deal, Transit Wireless has two more years toinstall the technology in six test stations and then eight years towire all 277 subway stations. Cell phonesin stations we can kind of understand, but allowing people to haveconversations while commuting may bring about the end civilization aswe know it. And, really, why does the subway need wi-fi? So that youcan download porn onto your iPad on the 6 Train? Really? Everyone knowsthe subway is for jerking off while looking at real people. Come on!
