Text 9195, 35 rader
Skriven 2010-07-11 06:51:50 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
   Kommentar till text 9136 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: Cellphone woes
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Replying to a message of Michiel van der Vlist to Roy Witt:

 MvdV> Hello Roy,

 MvdV> On Saturday July 10 2010 14:25, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>>> Of course since the advent of cell phones, we have adapted the
 MvdV>>> demand. Now we want our phones to be usable in the middle of
 MvdV>>> nowhere too. But I suspect that large areas of the places you
 MvdV>>> mentioned are not covered by cell phone either.

 RW>> Travel Insterstate 10 from Los Angeles, California thru Arizona and
 RW>> New Mexico (all three desert states plus West Texas) to San Antonio,
 RW>> Texas and you can have cell phone coverage all the way.

 MvdV> I would expect the main roads to be covered. And places where people
 MvdV> live that will make calls. But what about the real "middle of
 MvdV> nowhere"? Places where nobody lives and where there are no roads.
 MvdV> Places where you can only get on horse back, on foot or by
 MvdV> helicopter?

Depends on how far away the subscriber is.  There's always satellite.
I think 30 miles is about the limit for cellular phones, but with a special
directional antenna a subscriber may be able to be farther away.

One of the local cell phone companies also offers wireless Internet service,
the tower for that is just about 20 miles west from me.  My place is on the
east slope of a hill and the signal is masked.  There's another wireless
provider
over in Essex, about 30 miles east=southeast, and at my place their signal
isn't
strong enough to work reliably.

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