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Because bars and restaurants are private property?

How does that grant the carriers the right to deny you service that you are paying them to have? The property rights of bars and restaurants in no way overrides your contract.

If the bars don't like mobile phones they can ban them, or even (assuming it's legal) install Faraday cages.

I believe the suggestion was to allow carriers to disable service at the direction of private property owners.

Property owners do not own the electromagnetic spectrum in their property. I'd go as far as to say that even the carriers do not own the spectrum. They merely rent it (in the US). I'd say they have certain implicit (and explicit) responsibilities when they assumed the spectrum slices.

Did we really go so far as to welcome intrusion where someone can just ping your phone to get a reply with our location? I for one was very concerned when BART shut down cellular connectivity in order to cover up its incompetence.

I think of it more as a condition of the license to be physically on the property in the first place (e.g. no shoes, no shirts, no service).

You can easily block all cellphones on private property without broadcasting crap. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage

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