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Re: OT: Increasing Cell Phone Signal inside a NOC?


From: "Michael C. Wu" <keichii () iteration net>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 19:44:58 -0600


On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 04:39:03PM +0200, Petri Helenius scribbled:
| 
| > Just call your cell operator customer service and ask for someone who is
| > able
| > to talk about coverage issues.
| >
| Practically no cell operator provides access to these people. They take
| "coverage reports" and if you?re lucky, tell you when it?s going to be
| fixed.
| 
| And the subway coverage is far from 100%. Might be 100% on the stations.

Recent equipment in Asia uses a modified coax along the subway lines
to leak EM into the tunnels.  100% reception is expected in most
Asian metro/subway lines.

That has provided some thought, such as providing 802.11b access
on the subways.

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