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Race Is on for Cellular System for the Subway
by bucy at 3:30 pm EDT, Aug 25, 2005 |
The decision to introduce cellphone service in the city's underground subway stations touched off a flurry of interest in the telecommunications industry yesterday, as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority began soliciting bids for a 10-year contract that will involve immense technical complexity and probably be worth $50 million to $100 million.
So far, they're only talking about stations, not tunnels. |
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RE: Race Is on for Cellular System for the Subway
by Catonic at 10:21 am EDT, Aug 26, 2005 |
bucy wrote: The decision to introduce cellphone service in the city's underground subway stations touched off a flurry of interest in the telecommunications industry yesterday, as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority began soliciting bids for a 10-year contract that will involve immense technical complexity and probably be worth $50 million to $100 million.
So far, they're only talking about stations, not tunnels.
Lots of engineering goes into these things. You wind up having to run radiating coax all over the place to cover it. And let me tell you, that stuff doesn't work to well at 1.7-1.9 GHz. |
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RE: Race Is on for Cellular System for the Subway
by Mike the Usurper at 11:18 am EDT, Aug 26, 2005 |
bucy wrote: The decision to introduce cellphone service in the city's underground subway stations touched off a flurry of interest in the telecommunications industry yesterday, as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority began soliciting bids for a 10-year contract that will involve immense technical complexity and probably be worth $50 million to $100 million.
So far, they're only talking about stations, not tunnels.
What amuses me is, they want to do this, but at the same time have been saying it's a good thing that cell phones don't work in the subway because of "terror threats." Which one is it? |
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