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[TELECOM] End to the mobile phone bores: New 'quiet' train carriages to block mobile phone signals

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End to the mobile phone bores: New 'quiet' train carriages to block mobile phone signals

By Andrew Levy Last updated at 3:03 AM on 28th October 2008

Mobile phones on the train could be a thing of the past as carriages are to be layered with a film that blocks all transmissions

It is the scourge of public transport - you settle into your seat hoping for a relaxing journey and someone beside you starts a loud and animated mobile phone conversation.

Some train companies have introduced 'quiet' carriages in an attempt to give passengers a break from the racket.

Inevitably, however, some travellers ignore the rules, infuriating fellow passengers.

But one company is fighting back by coating the windows of some carriages with a hi-tech film that blocks phone signals. ......... (more in article)

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David Clayton
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seems a pretty old source?

done on virgin trains in the UK (on all carriages).

Now mainly removed due to complaints......

it looks like the consensus is "please block everybody elses mobile signal....."

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Stephen

Did anybody note that the news item was from _www.dailymail.co.uk_

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. Thr Daily Mail, as you would expect, is a British newspaper Also indicated by the URL ending in co.uk. It's hard to evaluate any news report without knowing where it originated. Wes Leatherock snipped-for-privacy@aol.com snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com

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Wes Leatherock

Sorry, I saw it linked on a more recent article related to the general subject. I thought it may be of interest if it hadn't already been posted here.

Do you know if it was it actually effective in totally blocking service or just attenuating the signals enough just to make it unreliable?

-- Regards, David.

David Clayton Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a measure of how many questions you have.

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David Clayton

it attenuates the signal a lot, but not enough to wipe out the signal all the time.

it was most effective in the carriage - you could get a better signal at the ends of the carriages (maybe the coach to coach connections are not shielded?).

A Mobile would still just about work when you could have got 3 or 4 bars on a different train at the same spot.

the biggest impact is on 3G data which keeps "bouncing" in and out and falling back to GPRS then cutting out completely.

Data was almost unuseable apart from close to a station or town centre (didnt work as well actually in the stations - maybe all that metal from the roofs?)

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Stephen

This is not a good idea.

Railroad passenger trains are increasingly automated so there are fewer crewman on board, sometimes only the motorman. In the event of any kind of situation or emergency, passengers having cellphones can expedite calling for help. (I once needed to report a disruptive passenger because there was no conductor around.)

Actually, these have been very successful where they've been tried. We need more of them. (I wish they'd have them on weekend trains, which are especially noisy.)

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Lisa or Jeff

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