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Posted by Howard Fein on Fri Mar 6 09:07:22 2009, in response to Cell Phone Service in the Subways - Yea or Nay?, posted by Mitch45 on Thu Mar 5 09:00:12 2009. Mixed feelings. If you're underground for a long period of time, such as on an original IND line, you may miss a call of actual consequence. I have. Or if you have to make a call, it would require leaving face control to get to street level. For those with an Unlimited Metrocard, it's no big deal. But for those who don't, it's a $2.00 surcharge.Wiring the underground for cell phones would eliminate two potentially comic scenarios that we see every day: -Someone on the phone when the train goes underground. "Hello- hello- HELLO- HELLO?! What HAPPENED? I can't HEAR you!!" -When the train breaks the surface, you see everyone reach for their phones in Pavlovian fashion. Or you hear a chorus of different ringtones simulteneously. I never found the underground particularly peaceful for lack of cell phone use. There's still leaky headphones, leaky iPods, leaky MP3s, people who test ringtones, candy kids, bogus charity workers, religious zealots, unwanted musical performances, and of course your everyday garden variety panhandler. |
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