Blogging from the Metro coming soon!

Photo courtesy of
‘You Don’t Say….’
courtesy of ‘chip py the photo guy’

There’s been talk of this for a while, but WMATA announced a little more of a timeline today: Twenty of the busiest stations will have cell phone service by the end of this year, and the entire system will have it by 2012.

While I certainly have no interest in listning to a train full of people shout to be heard over the tunnel noise, I look forward to actually being able to text and use Twitter from the train- many has been the time when the people I’ve been on my way to meet have tried to reach me, only to be thwarted by the Metro Cone of Silence.

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One Response to “Blogging from the Metro coming soon!”

  1. Is Washington Metro Opening Cell Service? < Chris Abraham Says:

    [...] has been Verizon’s bitch for as long as I have known.  I wonder if the following means that the DC WMATA is opening up the cell phone network to other networks — let me know [...]

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