[LUNI] cell phone and netaccess/computerLarry Garfield larry at garfieldtech.comWed Jun 11 00:03:42 CDT 2003
Patrick R. White wrote: > Larry Garfield wrote: > >> I have friends with Spring and Cingular, and they both hate them with >> a passion. > > I'm in Western DuPage County so this doesn't necessarily count for > Chicago, but I'm using Cingular with a Motorola 120T and have excellent > coverage out here anywhere I've gone including my apartment. A couple > of years ago I was on Sprint with a Qualcomm phone I couldn't even use > in my own apartment! :-( That may well be the case. Coverage can vary widely. > The phones may make a difference but then > again Cingular is jointly owned by SBC and Southern Bell? I think. They > have the advantage of the early adoption of cell technology towers in > their own territories, where everybody else has to build out their own > towers. Uh. SBC = Southern Bell Company. :-) SBC is now just SBC, and owns about half of the country in terms of local service, I believe. -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry at garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson
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