Cell Phones And WiFi Set To Invade NYC's Subways

Release Date ‎Aug 3, 2010‎ in Wired News

 
   

Cell Phones And WiFi Set To Invade NYC's Subways

Wired News - John Timmer - ‎Aug 3, 2010‎
New York Subway Saturday Morning Travellers, Sept. 13, 2008. Photo by Annie Mole / flickr, used with gratitude via a Creative ...

Subway Cell Phone Service: Train Riders Will Get WiFi In Stations, Trains

Huffington Post (blog) - ‎Jul 30, 2010‎
You won't be able to use the "I was in the subway" excuse much longer when you miss a call. In the next couple years, New Yorkers will be able to make calls ...

NY Subway to Get WiFi, Cell Access

The Atlantic (blog) - ‎Jul 30, 2010‎
One of the last refuges from electromagnetic traffic in New York is about to be overrun. The city's 277 subway stations will get wireless and cellular phone ...

New York City Subway Platforms to Go Wireless in Revived Accord

BusinessWeek - Greg Bensinger, Amy Thomson - ‎Jul 30, 2010‎
July 30 (Bloomberg) -- After an almost three-year delay, work is set to begin on a $200 million plan to bring mobile- ...

Subway tunnels, not just stations, set to get Wi-Fi, cell signals

New York Daily News - Pete Donohue - ‎Jul 30, 2010‎
When underground subway stations are wired for cellular and Wi-Fi service, the signals won't end at platform edges, an executive involved in ...

Cell Phone and Wi-Fi Service Coming to NYC's Subway

IT Business Edge (blog) - Ainsley Jones - ‎Aug 3, 2010‎
By date: New York City's subway platforms and tunnels are set to be outfitted for both cellular and Wi-Fi service. A contract between the Metropolitan ...

Still Waiting On NYC Subway Cell, Wi-Fi Coverage

BroadbandReports.com - Karl Bode - ‎Aug 3, 2010‎
Delivering phone and data connectivity to the New York City subway system has been in the works for some time, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority ...

Hold the Phone: NYC Subways to Get WiFi and Cell Service

GeekSugar.com (blog) - ‎Aug 3, 2010‎
Now that even airplanes have WiFi access, there are very few "dead zones" when it comes to cell and wireless service. But until now, there's been one place ...

NYC Subway To Get Wi-Fi

VON (blog) - ‎Aug 2, 2010‎
Joining such advanced metropolises as Berlin, Paris, and Hong Kong, New York City said it will move forward with the long-delayed project to equip subways ...

Cell Phone and WiFi Service Coming to the Subway, But is the City Ready?

DNAinfo - Sree Sreenivasan - ‎Aug 2, 2010‎
Cell Phone and WiFi service are in the works for the city's subway system, but perhaps they should be delayed. Straphangers use their mobile devices on the ...

City Subways Soon To Gain Cell Service

New York Press - ‎Aug 2, 2010‎
The respite from technology New York's underground commute offers will soon be fettered with all manner of wireless devices. Brand Channel reports a deal ...

Wi-Fi coming to NYC subways

brandchannel.com - Sheila Shayon - ‎Aug 2, 2010‎
Wi-Finally! We told you New York City was on the verge of getting connected, and now the satellites are at last aligning. Three years of negotiations have ...

New York City Transit project revived after three-year holdup

TopNews New Zealand - Surjit Singh - ‎Aug 2, 2010‎
Passing on the latest information pertaining to the New York City Transit, Kevin Ortiz, a spokesman for the project, revealed that after a nearly three-year ...

Wireless Services at New York City Subway Platforms

TopNews United Kingdom (blog) - Seher Dhillon - ‎Aug 2, 2010‎
New York City will soon witness the project planned for bringing mobile- phone and Wi-Fi facilities and services in New York's subway stations, ...

Wi-Fi and Mobile Service Coming to New York Subway Stations

New York Magazine - ‎Aug 1, 2010‎
In a rare occasion of subway-related news that won't make you groan, Wi-Fi and mobile service will soon be coming to the New York subway system. ...

NY Subway to get WiFi

Slippery Brick - Conner Flynn - ‎Aug 1, 2010‎
Six station platforms near 14th Street will be wired for WiFi and cellular service, despite delays and a $900 million dollar deficit. ...

NY Subway To Get WiFi

Geeky gadgets - Glenn Santos - ‎Aug 1, 2010‎
Despite endless delays and a massive $900 million dollar deficit, six station platforms near 14th Street will be wired for WiFi and cellular service as part ...

Broadcast Australia Financed Transit Wireless LLC Project to Rejuvenate it

TopNews United Kingdom (blog) - Seher Dhillon - ‎Aug 1, 2010‎
After an afresh grant of monetary assistance from the Australian mobile- infrastructure operator, the project of making New York's subway stations digital ...

NYC Subways Cutting Service But Score Subterranean WiFi

Inventorspot - Ron Callari - ‎Jul 31, 2010‎
Ironically as the NY City Transit Authority needs to cut services and increase fares to close in on a $900 million budget gap for its subway ...

Wi-Fi and Cell Phone Service Coming to New York City Subways

Tonic - Marc Hertz - ‎Jul 31, 2010‎
The project, which has been stalled since 2007, starts with six stations in Manhattan in the coming ...

New York City Subway Stations to get Wi-Fi and Mobile Services coverage

Gadgets Reviews - Kusum Pugalia - ‎Jul 31, 2010‎
Bloomberg has come up with news which states that New york City subway stations will soon get Wi-Fi and mobile services ...

NYC Subway to Get Wireless, Cell Service

Newser - Nick McMaster - ‎Jul 30, 2010‎
(Newser) â€" A plan to bring cellphone and wireless Internet service to New York's subway is set to start ...

NYC subways getting cell phone and WiFi service in tunnels

IntoMobile (blog) - ‎Jul 30, 2010‎
In what could be extremely useful but also quite annoying, the New York subways will soon be getting full cellular and WiFi service. ...

New York City Subway Riders To Get Cell Phone Coverage

UberGizmo (blog) - ‎Jul 30, 2010‎
While Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) riders have had cell phone coverage--both for talk and data--for a while now crossing the tunnel from the East Bay into ...

Wi-Fi, Cell Phone Service Coming To NYC Subways

New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV - Stephanie Barish - ‎Jul 30, 2010‎
NEW YORK (WPIX) - It looks like straphangers may get to chat on their cell phones after all. Underground subway stations are ...

New York City Subway: Wi-Fi coming soon

Product Reviews (blog) - Gary Johnson - ‎Jul 30, 2010‎
We have the news that work is set to begin on a $200 million plan to bring a mobile phone and Wi-Fi service to New York's subway stations. ...

New York City Subway Wi-Fi Plan Resumed; New Yorkers Already Complaining

AOL News - ‎Jul 30, 2010‎
(July 30) -- For those avid underground commuters in New York fed up with awkward stares and silences, too tired to read a book or suddenly uninterested in ...

NYC subways may get wired for cell phones

UPI.com - ‎Jul 30, 2010‎
NEW YORK, July 30 (UPI) -- The New York Metropolitan Transit Authority has signed a contract for wireless service in its subway stations, which could extend ...

New York City Subway To Get Wi-Fi, Cellphone Service

CrunchGear (blog) - Nicholas Deleon - ‎Jul 30, 2010‎
You'll soon be able to use your phone in the New York City subway system. It's part of a $200 million renovation of the ...

New York City Subway Stations to Offer Wi-Fi and Mobile Services

Erictric - ‎Jul 30, 2010‎
According to Bloomberg, New York City subway stations will soon be able to offer Wi-Fi and mobile services to the thousands of commuters that use the New ...

 

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