With cell phone service knocked out and many parts of New York having no electricity in the wake of super storm Sandy people are lining up to use a piece of technology seemingly from days past: the humble pay phone.
A woman who was talking on her old cell phone was struck and killed by a city bus at one of the most dangerous intersections in Queens in New York yesterday, advocates and police officers say.
The New York City subway switched on its first cell phone antennas yesterday, with subscribers to AT&T and T-Mobile now able to surf the internet and make calls from underground corridors and platforms at up to six stations in Manhattan’s Chelsea section.