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On 05/04/2012 08:00, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 05/04/2012 01:39, wrote:
On 04/04/2012 16:26, wrote:
On Apr 3, 6:06 pm,
wrote:

London Underground stations used to have pay phones, though no
longer. I
can't understand why they would do that, however, because one cannot
get
a signal on their mobile phones on the tube lines.

They also used to have to have Candbury's vending machines, though
those
disappeared around 2006/07.

NYC subways still have pay phones. Mobile phones only work in
stations close to the surface, if even that. However, the MTA plans
to contract with vendors to install antenna and provide service. Some
people object to that since they don't want to be disturbed by cell
phone yackers. I certainly don't like cell phone users on trains.

Emirates aeroplanes are now equipped on certain routes with equipment
that allows in-flight mobile phone service.

BA have had built in mobile phones on some routes for several years now.

No, I mean that the Emirates aeroplanes themselves are fitted with
equipment that allows people to use their own mobile phones.

I am not referring to the phones on some planes that are fitted into the
back of the seat in front of you. You pop it out of its holding and
slide your credit through a strip on the side of a handset.

I've never seen any of those work, I have to say, even though I have
tried on a few occasions and even needed one once.

Also not cheap they are, I have to imagine.