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[email protected] · February 15th 11, 07:27 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 15/02/2011 15:04, Walter Briscoe wrote:
In message_r6dnQyKcuz34MfQnZ2dnUVZ8sSdnZ2d@giganews. com of Tue, 15
Feb 2011 07:19:38 in uk.transport.london,
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In ,
(max) wrote:

why there's no mobile coverage within the tube? I tried to call a
friend but unsuccessfully.

I think the Laws of Physics have something to do with it.

I am happy this is so, underground. A couple of years ago, there was no
commercial case for making mobile phones usable underground. I wish they
were not usable on trains above ground and subsurface. Window covering
opaque to radio would suit me.

Alternatively, let's have quiet cars as we used to have non-smoking
cars. Sadly, my experience of c2c quiet cars is that mobile phone users
assume they can inflict there conversations on everyone, everywhere. I
have no objection to anyone using a mobile phone, privately. I do have
problems when there calls are imposed on me.

People who actually make these calls appear mainly to be young people in
their early 20s, normally talking about some party.