Will a cellphone work underground?

Some tunnels are are specially wired for mobile phone communication, on motorways and toll roads for example.

A walkie talkie will transmit some distance down the sewer to other workers.

... Phil

Cell phone signals won't make it through very much dirt. Certainly not six feet of it.

If the cemetery is close to a cell tower you could probably put an antenna on the tombstone connected to a matching antenna in the casket. But then you need to charge the batteries, so you need to put some solar cells on the tombstone as well.

Even then, that's only going to be good for as long as the current technology isn't superseded, at which point the guy had better call in an exhumation before his service is canceled.

Frankly, if he really wants to meet his goals, I think he should ask for a sky burial.

Back in the old days when they were not sure if someone actually was dead, after drinking comotose enabled moonshine, resulting in a few days of deep sleep and uncertain about the state of the drunk.

They would bury the person in fear of disease, tie a string around their rist and thread it through the box to above ground where it would be attached to a bell on a little shepards hook.

They would assign a person for the midnight to listen for any bells, thus the "GRAVE YARD SHIFT".

If a bell would start to ring, this was indication that the person was burried alive and thus "A Dead Ringer"!

Now putting this to a cell phone, I suppose one could run a wire in the same fasion and then you would have a "Dead Caller".

I am glad I could clear up a bit of history for you, that's my story and I am sticking with it.

Jamie :)

Your etymological claims are gravely mistaken, and dead wrong.

they don't work in subways

Seems to me they could be made to work in subways, or at least in the stations, but they haven't seen fit to install the electronics yet...

I was doing some work for a client associated with putting cell phone service into large buildings and subways. But it was in 2008, and their customers pulled the plug when the shit hit the fan.

:)

subways have steel reinforcement in the concrete thus making a partial of total Faraday cage (depends on the wavelength)

Here is another explanation.

Here is another explanation:

Saved by the bell.

Not too hard to figure.

.... Phil

"Top psychics all agree That the telephone company Will have a brand-new service that lets you talk to the dead."

Around Kansas City, we have several man-made caves in the limestone... dig a big pit, sell gravel, dig sideways at the bottom of the pit to make caves, sell gravel, then sell warehouse and factory space. You can drive a truck into most of them and even a train into a few.

I saw a story in the local paper where an employee at a business in the caves commented that if he wanted to use his cell phone, he had to take the stairs, elevator, or truck above ground at lunch time. (The employers may consider this a feature, not a bug.)

Matt Roberds

What are the politics involved?

Seems to me that with municipal wifi and phones having the ability to automatically switch from a cell network to wifi that the celular carriers and ISPs would be battling it out in congress. (or maybe they are and it isn't in the news?)

If you are referring to ashes in fireworks shell actually in the industry it is called an aerial burial. Check Crackerjacks 2009 Memorial on YT.

Metro in DC they work just fine. But of course the system is wired for such.

I was referring to a platform in the trees, with help from buzzards & such. Since you ask...

I thought it originated in school. :)

Man that's funny. I like it. Should of seen it coming.