Once this deal goes through there will be barely any cellphone free places in NYC. This means, you can talk on your cell just about every where except, of course, when the subway car you’re riding in in a tunnel.

Don’t you love it when the F-train goes overground at Smith and Ninth and Fourth Avenue? It’s a cacophony of cell phone rings and people talking, "Ma, I’m on my way home."  This from the New York Times:

All 277 underground stations in the subway system are to be wired for cellphone use, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced yesterday.

But riders may have to talk fast, because the subway tunnels will not be wired, out of consideration for riders who do not want to be stuck in a subway car full of chattering cellphone users. …Transit Wireless, will pay New York City Transit a minimu of 46.8 million over 10 years, the agency said. The company will also pay the full cost of building the wireless network in the underground stations…