Utah Transit Authority Bans Mobile Gambling

15 May 2009, Staff Writer

A new ordinance issued just last month by the Utah Transit Authority will see fines being handed out to passengers of using their mobile phones to gamble while accessing the UTA's wireless internet service.

The UTA added a free wireless internet service to its Frontrunner commuter trains and all passenger over 18 are free to access the service subject to its terms and conditions and attached filter.  But the filter is not quite doing its job and authorities, worried that passengers are gambling on their trains will now issue fines to those found doing so.

A first offence will cost $300, and subsequent offences $500 each.  Fines will be handed out by transit police, so as well as having their tickets checked, Frontrunner commuters may now also have their phones scrutinized.

UTA spokesperson Gerry Carpenter, said that passengers can appeal a citation.

Guess it could be worse.  In North Korea people found using mobile phones are executed!  According to the Associated Press, a South Korean think tank claimed in late 2007 that its Northern neighbor had increased public executions of people caught owning a mobile phone.

Imagine if they were caught owning a mobile phone and using it to gamble!

 

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