The latest wireless hotspot? Under the bay between San Francisco and Oakland.
That's because four cell phone companies - AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint/Nextel and Verizon - have just turned on their wireless networks in the Transbay Tube, BART announced today."The best news is that the installation and operational costs are paid by the providers - not by BART," said James Fang, president of the Bart Board.
Nearly 161,000 people take the Transbay Tube each weekday. Now their cell phones and laptops won't have to be idle during the 10-minute or so ride under the Bay.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/21/BAJ81B7VF1.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea#ixzz0aOh2LJP2
Wahoo! Now I won't be bored staring out the dark windows at lights whizzing by for those few minutes under the Transbay Tube...
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