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- miles01110, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15"Ever wanted to stuff that "Can you hear me now?" guy into the trunk of your car and take him on a tour of those maddening spots where your cell phone won't work?"
Well, I've wanted to stuff that "Can you hear me now?" guy into the trunk of my car... - processoriented, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Oh, now that's just unfair... FOX News puts out several true, unbiased works of high journalistic integrity every single year!
- pinesol101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6If they could only do this with WIFI, then we could all know where to go to get free wifi.
- CorpT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2....davidrsmith? hmmmm...questionable
- masterofsw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2As the article says, others have already done this, just not publicly.
The next step is to use the public (police, fire, city) vehicles and advertise that you are helping fund the city services instead of a for profit company. - zeiche, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Better idea.. Note the areas that customers call in to complain about. Then fix the areas that the customers care about most. Oh, yeah. That'd mean you'd have to actually have to listen to your customers.
- raybury, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It is smart to use the existing "infrastructure" as you say -- I've often thought that Jehovah's Witnesses should be given brooms and waste cans when they go preaching downtown, to help alleviate litter -- but my first thought is that this is a two-dimensional approach in the place where the problem is most three-dimensional. A good signal on the curbside doesn't mean I'll get squat 50 floors up.
- Lionhart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't know about you guys but I never have anything but excellent service in the city. (Verizon)
- AllnightChemist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Until they do, try a park in Manhattan: Central Park, Bryant Park, Battery Park... all free.
- dark_helmet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Your cell phone is almost always trackable, even when you have no reception, you can be found by using the signal your phone is transmiting to find a tower. The only time that you wouldn't be able to be tracked by it would be if it were turned off
- hiyagaia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The flaw with your argument is the company has to wait for the calls, so customers are already angry. They are taking additional steps to ensure customer satisfaction (and additional ad power words --- best reception in new york, etc.).
Even if people were to call in, the problem isn't listening to customers, it's finding employees that could handle the immense amount of information and process it in a way the engineers can understand and use.
Oh wait, that's what this device does. - grat2001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yea, but if you can point out the dead zones you can offer better equipment or more of it to cover the potential revenue loss from customers. This is a smart and simple idea that puts everyone in a win situation.
- eurleif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Aren't cell phones supposed to have GPS? Why couldn't they put software on all of their phones that automatically stores a list of locations with bad reception, then transmits the list to the carrier when it's brought into an area with good reception?
- dlichteman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Using GPS on your cell phone drains the battery like crazy, that would be why.
- ohsnap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you mean sony ericsson. ericsson provides network infrastructure.
- davidrsmith, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1that would be my name "corpT", David R. Smith. nice try
- hiyagaia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This will take years to map out, and I've got the attention span of a small monkey ... oh look, potatoes!
- Xeller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I agree, this is a perfect solution for all parties involved, and I can't imagine how it could hurt anyone.
But a quick question to those in NYC: How is cell phone coverage in the area anyway? A lot of "blind" spots, or good coverage overall? I can't imagine Ericsson spending money for this endeavor if there weren't any problems, but it seems like a big urban city like NYC would have one of the better coverages in the nation. - sixty6, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Looks like Ericsson is finally taking a step forward to getting more areas cell phone coverage unlike others..Cingular should have jumped at this opportunity - if only they thought of it first..
- unlimitedorb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0All this means is that the government now has another way of tracking you...There is no escape.
Peace Brotha's (And don't let the man get you down) - oskite, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Aw man, my first thought was that this was about putting stronger cell recievers inside cabs to make for nice clear reception for the passenger. Would that even work?
- DRTED, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1They should strap these things into babies when they are born, let them walk around their whole lives without knowing it, ***** cell phone chips and ***** in their brains....
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3I wish sprint would do that.
I can't even go into my favorite electrical supply place in Chinatown without losing the connection.
But, why don't they just put cell phone transmission devices in the cabs?
THAT would be awesome...at least in the daytime.
OMG Do you know what this means? This article is actually something from Fox news that is TRUE! - davidrsmith, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2....fox news? hmmm.... questionable
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