I disagree that the scanners are a good idea. I’d rather places immediately eject the person talking on the cell, perhaps enforcing either ‘banned’ procedures and/or buying everyone else another ticket sort of thing.
really, if it’s vitally important to the twit to be able to say “nuthin’ much, watchin’ a movie”, it should be worth paying for 150 people’s new tickets, right?
First, if you actually read the OP, you would have noted that these devices aren’t currently approved by the FCC for use in the US. That approval won’t come without evaluation regarding potential interference with legitimate emergency communications. In the fire service, we also perform preplans of commercial and high occupany structures, including the quality of communication within and around the site. Fixed issues which may cause a problem are noted within that document, and also can be entered as a pop-up notation on the screen of an emergency communications dispatcher.
Oddly enough, I have to agree with World Eater about Joe Citizen telling Joe Cell-Ass to shut it off. Someone ignorant enough to yap at an inappropriate place and time isn’t likely to be shamed into submission, but will start a bigger ruckus.Here is one example of a couple who started shit with an off-duty police officer over yapping in a movie theater.
As far as your attitude Who_me? that you expect to use your phone in my place of business, you need to get over yourself, too. Cell phone users are not a class to be protected from discrimination. If I owned a movie theater or restaurant, a sign would be posted informing patrons that cell phone users would be forcibly ejected from the premises. Race, creed, handicap, sexual orientation are protected classes-not willful assholism. Better yet, come on down to my local County Courthouse, and start your line of shit with the Deputies just inside the door. No cell phones in the building, period.
It’s not the ringing so much. While that is annoying it’s the asshole that feels the need to then answer the call and have a loud, lengthy conversation describing the movie, where they are going to dinner, make plans for where to meet for lunch the Thursday after next, etc. If you want to have a conversation, leave the theater.
As far as confronting the person, the last time I did that I was told, “Fuck off, Bitch. I paid just as much as you did to get in and I can do whatever the fuck I want.” Then proceeded to complain to her caller about the “fucking bitch” in front of her. Then spent the rest of the movie kicking my seat and throwing things at me. “Management” couldn’t do anything because they didn’t witness any of it :rolleyes:
Either’s fine, but if I jumped up and down on the rude caller I would have to scream, “Die, foul offspring of Satan! To the nethermost pits of Hell I cast thee, where thy evil machine shalt be thrust so far up thy hind orifice that thou shalt have to stick thy scabrous fingers down thy pustular throat to answer it!” Then I’d jump on the phone.
I’ve made similar points in all the other cell phone jammer threads, but by and large, it’s been ignored. Our radios operate in the 800MHz spectrum, and would almost certainly be blocked by a cell phone jammer. In addition, if I need to call in for orders from a doctor (required for certain medications and procedures) or call report on a patient we’re bringing to the hospital, I have to do that on a cell phone.
St. Urho
Paramedic
I read the OP, thank you.
Not everything sold or used has FCC approval. Some devices get sold anyway, just marked “for export only” or “for experimental use only” or in kit form. There are legal loopholes and some people just don’t care about the law.
How many theaters do we have in this country? 20,000? 30,000? 4 heart attacks randomly spread across those seems like a drop in the bucket. Now I’m not trying to say it isn’t important, just that it’s a contingency we really shouldn’t dwell on too long.
Are you kidding? Universities are one of the BIGGEST users of cell technology. Cash strapped Universities aren’t going to say no when companies ask to rent roof space for our towers. And University students (poor or not) are one of our bigger cell markets. I think you’ve got it backwards. The universities don’t pay for our towers, we do. I’ve gotten calls by people who have been contacted by us about renting barn roofs for our towers (I don’t know how much they get, probably not too much).
Elevator shafts are notorious for radio interference. For a clear signal to happen inside a shaft, a repeater or some rather strange “open top” design must be in place (I just made the second one up but maybe it’s real). A metal box inside a cement shaft is going to muck up radio devices. I once was in an elevator with a police officer and I was totally amazed his radio worked (although you couldn’t understand it with all the static). I know my cell phone can’t work and the closest tower is 250 meters away (the next building over, I get very good signal in my place :D). My GF’s elevator also cuts out the signal and the closest tower is about 150 meters away (someone’s private residence apparently according to my tower map).
Subways are another, similar, problem. You’re inside a metal box, under several meters of land. Even when you’re only in a “tunnel” you might not get a good signal (you’ll be in analog mode and the quality will suck).
My university is state-run, and I can’t find any information one way or the other as to cell tower installations on it. I would think that as a state university, if it were a notable revenue source, then it would be broken out on their CAFR some year.
Yes, but you stated outright in your post that cell phones simply will not work in an elevator without a repeater installed. I know this to not be the case in my personal experience. If you had stuck in an “often” or “usually”, I wouldn’t have said anything.
I said nothing about being in a car or in a tunnel. I said the mezzanine levels (and sometimes the platform, if the station has no mezzanine) and I also said inside the concrete bunker of a building I attend a class in.
The mezzanine, if you are unfamiliar with the concept, is the level above the platforms through which you can make connections to other trains in the same station. Being on the mezzanine usually involves being at least 10 feet underground, under at least 5 feet of “ground” as your ceiling. Yet it still works, without a repeater, both in the NYC subway and on the LIRR. The subway doesn’t have a repeater system (AFAIK) and LIRR has only Verizon, on which I cannot roam.
Moreover, my phone will never go into “analog” as it is incapable of operating in AMPS mode. Your statement to the contrary leads me to believe further that your experience with your telecom may not be applicable to all situations.