Metro Begins Expanding Cell Coverage in D.C. Transit Stations
Washington D.C. transit riders will be able to use their cell phones in underground Metro stations, The Washington Post reports. Yesterday crews began work installing equipment that will enable carriers AT&T, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile and Verizon to provide mobile phone and Internet service in 20 of the Metrorail’s busiest undergound stations.
The new network will open on October 19 and serve as the first phase of a project to expand service across the transit sytem by 2012, says the Washington Business Journal. Previously, only Verizon customers and Sprint phones that could roam to the Verizon network had service in the Metro system due to a prior agreement with Verizon predecessor Bell Atlantic Mobile Systems.