Last year in March, I have written a post here detailing the problems of simple cellphone access in our underground MRT stations. Fast forward to April 2011, the problems are yet to be solved.
Just last week, there was an "electrical fault" in the vicinity around Outram Park MRT station. The result was an hour long delay for all the trains along that line, and some passengers were stuck in the tunnels.
The problem? Those people stuck in the tunnels are unable to call out at all as they have no signals on their mobile phone. Just imagine that you have an important meeting to attend to, and your boss is waiting impatiently for your appearance but you're unable to contact anyone.
This signal problem is evident to anyone who takes the train to work everyday, and nothing visible was done to resolve it. Seriously, I don't buy the reason that it takes time to install extra mobile cell stations in the tunnels because I've encountered the problem since the year before. Let's say that they have a year to fix the problem. The trains would have stopped running by 1am everyday. Using an estimate of 4 hours of work for a year (364 days) roughly adds up to about 60 full working days (1 working day = 24 hours as I am calculating by working hours).
So 60 full working days is not enough to resolve this problem? I didn't know installing extra cell stations in the tunnels take that long.
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