Wi-Fi, Voice Calling Come to More New York City Subway Stations

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) said that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the body for New York City’s arteries of public transit, had completed the first phase of a citywide project to install Wi-Fi and voice-calling service in its subway stations. Service is now expanded to 36 subway stations, including the six that were tested last year.

Major stations, including Times Square and Rockefeller Center, are included in the expansion. The project allows for voice-calling, text-messaging and Internet browsing from the station platforms — not on the trains themselves. And you’ll have to be a customer of participating wireless services to access voice and data. Carriers AT&T and T-Mobile have already signed on to provide service for wireless voice and data for their customers. Executives from Verizon and Sprint were also in attendance at Gov. Cuomo’s press conference, as the two carriers say they plan to be a part of the network down under.