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New York Times - M.T.A. Makes Deal for Cellphones in Stations
By WILLIAM NEUMAN, September 20, 2007
All 277 underground stations in the subway system are to be wired for cellphone use, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced yesterday.

 

NY Post - CELL-EBRATION: Subway Stations getting Rigged
By JEREMY OLSHAN Transit Reporter, September 20, 2007
Subway riders will finally be able to telecommute now that the MTA is moving ahead with plans to install cellular and Internet service on subway platforms.

 

Daily News - Cell phone service coming to subways, but it'll take 6 years
BY XANA O'NEILL and PETE DONOHUE, September 20, 2007
The final frontier for cell phone service - the New York City subways - will be wired within six years, and it won't cost the MTA a nickel, transit officials said yesterday.

 

Newsday - Subway stations get wired
By MARLENE NAANES, amNewYork staff writer, September 19, 2007
After two years of talk, plans for cell phone and WiFi-accessible subways stations are rolling forward, an encouraging message for some straphangers but a troubling one for others who wonder if platforms will become one loud phone booth.

 
 
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