[LUNI] cell phone and netaccess/computer

[Patrick R. White]

Patrick R. White wrote:

> Larry Garfield wrote:
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>> Patrick R. White wrote:
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>>> 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. 
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> 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! ;-)
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> 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
>
Now I have more info from the IBD today on an article about wireless 
number portability.  The big  three are Verizon, SBC and BellSouth.   So 
Verizon is New York,  SBC is Dallas and BellSouth is Atlanta.  They own 
local wireline businesses whereas AT&T Wireless, TMobile USA and Nextel 
don't.

Pat

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