NYC Subway Cell Service, No Cell-Related Cancer

Luke PiWalker wrote to mention a CNN article discussing a bid process for offering cell phone service to NYC subway stations. The contract is only to wire up stations; moving trains will not have service. Those New Yorkers will also be safe from their phones, as the BBC reports on a study indicating cell phones don't cause cancer. From that article, submitted to us by Dan Hope: "She acknowledged that there appeared to be an increased risk among brain cancer sufferers on the side of the head where they held the phone. The team, however, did not put this down to a causal link, because almost exactly the same decreased risk was seen on the other side of the head, leaving no overall increase risk of tumours for mobile phone users. Instead, they blamed biased reporting from brain tumour sufferers who knew what side of the head their tumours were on."

Comments

Increase terrorism this way?

[Anonymous Coward]

Since terrorists have shown they like to bomb the subway systems (see Madrid, London), and since they have shown they like to use cell phones as trigger points for their bombs (see Madrid), isn't putting cell phone service in the New York City subway system giving potential terrorists a new weapon to use? Now instead of having to carry a backpack bomb and then die in the blast themselves, they can rig up a cell phone detonator and be safe when the bomb goes off.