FCC Investigates Official Blackout of Mobile Service in San Francisco Transit System

摘要

The FCC is investigating the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Authority’s decision to shut off nmobile Internet and cellphone service in parts of its metro rail system last week. Officials shut noff power to communications facilities in four stations in San Francisco before nan expected protest of a fatal shooting last month by BART officers of a man with a knife. The nprotest never took place. The Electronic Frontier Foundation called the shutdown "a shameful nattack on free speech." EEF and other critics compared the action to clampdowns in Libya nand Egypt.