It's a company from Australia and their US/Canada subsidiary (and Europe/Asia/Latin America) that is providing these world-leading solutions including the Hong Kong sub-way and I believe a similar solution is used by OEM'es in Europe (several different companies).
AT&T and T-Mobile comes first simply due to technology that's used in 95% of the world (company is Transit Wireless and they don't need to do re-engineering).
I hope VZW 4G LTE (easier, faster uses the new VZW combined 3GPP GSM MAP CORE + RAN) + CDMA2000 is coming next.
0% Violence, 100% 911 calls (REALLY IMPORTANT!). Emergency response now know EXACTLY which part of the metro the call is coming from.
BTW this has existed FOREVER in other world metros including our own Washington DC Metro (with VZW!).
The other reason that AT&T is complaining about spectrum exhaust and other things (them and T-Mobile) is simply due to the *VERY HIGH AMOUNT* of in-bound to USA international roaming traffic that they both carry (a-lot of it is business travelers /w expense accounts...). It makes AT&T and T-Mobile very high profit margins.
Remember VZW's network doesn't have 10 billion people roaming on it in the world's capital (aka NYC!).
Come on, it's NYC, they can just yell their calls through the subways I love their "Let's honk our horns, even though we know it won't do any good and we're stuck for hours in this spot"
There is some service in the subways here in CA, in the Bay Area (BART, SF Muni) and SoCal (Metrorail), though they have a long ways to go to get coverage to where it needs to be.
VZW will eventually get on board with this. AT&T has been working in Philadelphia (SEPTA) subways since 2008. The day we had the earthquake (8/23/11) I called a friend in Philly to see what was happening down there. He was underground in the subway and traveled between several stops and the call didn't drop, which gave us both our second shock of the day. VZW never put out a press release or anything saying that service was launched.
FWIW, I believe how the money factor works is that the company provides and maintains the equipment, and the carriers pays the company. Per the agreement with the city (specifically the Transit Authority), the Transit Authority gets the first $650k earned, and after that all the money from the carriers goes to the company.
VZW will eventually get on board with this. AT&T has been working in Philadelphia (SEPTA) subways since 2008. The day we had the earthquake (8/23/11) I called a friend in Philly to see what was happening down there. He was underground in the subway and traveled between several stops and the call didn't drop, which gave us both our second shock of the day. VZW never put out a press release or anything saying that service was launched.
VZW was the among the last to launch in the Chicago subways too. US Cellular was first (and Sprint could roam off of them). A while later VZW launched, but it was without much news.
I was at the 14th street station today and saw the cell system first hand. There was a white antenna about every 15 feet on the ceiling that said "do not paint.". As expected, Verizon had zero signal down there. Ugh.
Ha! Don't you love it---the NYC subway tunnels look as decrepit in your picture as they are in real life. I live here, so I know. Along with the rats, the drips . . . OT, I know.
Ha! Don't you love it---the NYC subway tunnels look as decrepit in your picture as they are in real life. I live here, so I know. Along with the rats, the drips . . . OT, I know.
The most you can say about the new York city subway system, is thy it works. - Anthony Bourdain on the layover
I was at the 14th street station today and saw the cell system first hand. There was a white antenna about every 15 feet on the ceiling that said "do not paint.". As expected, Verizon had zero signal down there. Ugh.
Every 15 feet? Seems a little excessive even for low-powered microcells, but wow.
Transit wireless just announced it is expanding service this summer to about 30 more stations. Busy stations like Times Square are coming on line, and the system is more than just a beta test now. Verizon, get on board, NOW.
The only downside to NYC getting more wired down under is the huge jabber factor we will have---even worse than it is now. We'll have to hear even more of everyone else's boring one way conversation (one way that we can hear). The worst is hearing people yelling at one another on their blasted cell phone, oblivious to anyone else. Sigh.
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I love their "Let's honk our horns, even though we know it won't do any good and we're stuck for hours in this spot" 
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