New York City Cabs to Map Out Cell-Phone Dead Zones
Stockholm-based firm Ericsson recently got approval from New York’s taxi commission to place mobile sensors in the trunks of at least 50 cabs in an attempt to better map dead zones in mobile phone networks. Fox News reports.
The small devices, about the size of a computer modem, will automatically feed information about signal strength and clarity to engineers. Because taxis in New York are on the road all day and all night, and ostensibly travel into every corner of the city, company executives said they are a cheap way of covering vast amounts of territory with limited effort.
Similar programs have been launched in several other cities since the 1990s using a variety of vehicles, but this is the first time it will be done in New York, the company said.
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