[LUNI] cell phone and netaccess/computer

[Patrick R. White]

Larry Garfield wrote:

> Patrick R. White wrote:
>
>> Larry Garfield wrote:
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>>> I have friends with Spring and Cingular, and they both hate them 
>>> with a passion. 
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>>
>> 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! :-(   
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> That may well be the case.  Coverage can vary widely.
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> > The phones may make a difference but then
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>> 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.
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> Uh.  SBC = Southern Bell Company. :-)  SBC is now just SBC, and owns 
> about half of the country in terms of local service, I believe. 

Wow, about the time I got this message composed, spell checked and was I 
guess hitting the send key, Netscape went crashing and I couldn't even 
save it. I thought I had lost it forever and would be hard pressed to 
think up what I had already written! ;-)

Now to the corrections, SBC is more likely SouthWestern Bell based out 
of Dallas, where I was referring to the Atlanta one which was known as 
Southern Bell!

I'm speaking from the fact that I worked 19 years for Illinois 
Bell/Ameritech! :-)

Pat

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