Re: Anyone experience in designing cellular coverage in rail concourse?

[David Mewett <David_Mewett@rta.nsw.gov.au>]

a couple of weeks ago I got a fright when my phone went off at Wynyard
station, this was before the signs etc went up, the phone worked halfway
down the tunnel to the bridge and then just dropped.

It is interesting to watch people's reactions at the moment when their
phone rings on the train 

David Mewett
Onlooker

Matthew Geier wrote:
> 
> "Michael Walker" <walker@hotkey.net.au> writes:
> 
> >> Ask the people who appear to be fitting the Sydney underground with GSM
> >>rebroadcast equipment!. (They are currently working on Martin Place).
> >>
> >Optus Communications would be another good place to try. They have installed
> >some system or other to enable mobile phone users to inconvenience others
> >and look stupid on platforms in the City Loop in Melbourne. They also have
> >an advertisement on Flinders Street concourse advertising this fact - most
> >logical given Flinders Street is not even underground!
> 
>  Ive since seen advertisments where Optus is claiming coverage of the
> Sydney underground stations. Wynyard is done. The others to follow shortly.
> 
>  It is not just the concourse they are covering either, they are pointing
> directional antenna down the tunnels as well. Dunno how far the signal
> would get length ways through a train.