Got Sprint? Use phones underground on Metro downtown

Sprint customers can now use their cell phones underground on downtown portions of Metro’s Red and Purple rail lines, joining Verizon customers who were given the ability in April.

Metro has been working with cell service providers to allow mobile phones to be used underground. The agreement with Sprint and InSite Wireless Group, which provides the cell service equipment, makes service available on Red and Purple line trains traveling between Union Station and the 7th Street/Metro Center Station.

Cell service is available throughout the 7th Street/Metro Center Station, including at the Blue Line and Expo Line train platforms.

Similar agreements with T-Mobile and AT&T are in the works.

Metro is also aiming to expand cell service to the Purple Line between 7th Street/Metro Center Station and Wilshire/Western by this fall.

There are also plans for bring cell service on the northern portions of the Red Line, up to the North Hollywood station in the San Fernando Valley.

The underground segments of the Metro Gold Line that serve Pasadena and East Los Angeles also are supposed to be next in line for cell service.

— City News Service