MBTA Full cellphone reception expected for subway by year’s end, AT&T, T-Mobile have signed on Options

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The Boston Globe, 5/21:

Full cellphone reception expected for T subway by year’s end
AT&T, T-Mobile have signed on

All underground portions of the MBTA subway system should be fully wired for cellphone reception by the end of the year, the company designing and installing the network predicted.

But many T riders may have to wait longer before they can talk, text, and check e-mail throughout the system’s 19 miles of tunnels: Only two major mobile carriers, AT&T and T-Mobile, have immediate plans to introduce or expand their subterranean coverage.

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