Wireless Underground

[Tristan]

As you probably know by now, a provision under the $150 million federal Metro spending package mandated that WMATA milk more money out of it's wireless contract.  And so, last week, wireless service from all four national carriers became available in the 20 busiest underground stations.

This message was posted with full 3G signal strength inside Crystal City station. 

[Tritransit Area]

Pretty nice!  Now I don't have much advantage to being a Verizon customer...

With advancements like this, why is WMATArail so horrendous?

[Sand Box John]

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This message was posted with full 3G signal strength inside Crystal City station.

You are going to have to wait another year to be able do the same in a train traveling through the tunnels.

[Tristan]

That's what I'm hearing...interestingly enough, however, there was enough signal strength in Crystal City to keep me in service until we came out of the tunnel, where the outside signal kicked in.  Not bad.

[79MetroExtraMD]

As you probably know by now, a provision under the $150 million federal Metro spending package mandated that WMATA milk more money out of it's wireless contract.  And so, last week, wireless service from all four national carriers became available in the 20 busiest underground stations.

This message was posted with full 3G signal strength inside Crystal City station. 

If you have t-Mobile, you're screwed from the start.

[C40LF_2464]

Dang and i lost my phone when all this happened. AT&T works with this right?

[Tristan]

The four major carriers are AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile (not sure what 79MetroExtraMD is referring to, exactly).

[79MetroExtraMD]

The four major carriers are AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile (not sure what 79MetroExtraMD is referring to, exactly).

t-Mobile isn't one the best services out there. Hence, why I said you're screwed from the start.

[Tristan]

Oh...well...so long as it's clear that they are one of the carriers with an underground (albeit in-station) signal.....