If you live in or have traveled to the nation's capitol and have taken the Metro, you're probably aware that unless you have Verizon for mobile service, your phone doesn't work. That's about to change soon.
 
On Oct. 16, under an expanded wireless program, Sprint Nextel, AT&T and T-Mobile will all offer service at 20 selected Metro stations. Those stations include: Ballston, Bethesda, Columbia Heights, Crystal City, Dupont Circle, Farragut North, Farragut West, Federal Center SW, Foggy Bottom-GWU, Friendship Heights, Gallery Place-Chinatown, Judiciary Square, L’Enfant Plaza, McPherson Square, Metro Center, Pentagon, Pentagon City, Rosslyn, Smithsonian and Union Station, according to the Washington Business Journal.

If your Metro station isn't included in that list, you're going to have to wait until sometime in 2010 when the remainder of stations receive the equipment, the Business Journal reported. When will your phone work in tunnels, well that's not until 2012.

Read the full article at the Washington Business Journal by clicking here.