[LUNI] cell phone and netaccess/computer

[Jim Harvey]

Larry Garfield wrote:
> 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.
> 

SBC = Southwest Bell, you are insulting Bell South.
Ameritech sold out to SBC, who already had a big interest in Cellular One.  FCC 
wouldn't let them keep both Wireline licences in the area so they sold Ameritech 
Cellular to General Telephone who was shortly thereafter sucked up by Verizon.

That's the way I remember it anyway.
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