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US, Retrieve Cell service getting worse, Analog service disappearing.
Did you know analog cell phone coverage is being sunset? Legally, a
FCC ruling says that all analog cell phone services can be shut off after Feb. 18, 2008, aka the 'analog sunset' ? And guess what, Verizon will do just that precisely on 2/18/2008! See: http://support.vzw.com/faqs/Wireless...etirement.html There are still some rural areas without digital service, so after 2/18/2008 your retrieval call may just not be as easy ... Especially out in Texas and other rural areas. Now I wonder if keeping Verizon with their old digital technology or if it is better to switch to AT&T and others using the GSM network. Verizon digital is CDMA - it is the old digital standard, not as modern as the GSM standard that AT&T now uses. I think CDMA is currently on more towers. I think the trimode phones I have is analog, CDMA & TDMA [even older digital]. I think a lot of the world uses GSM but then in Europe they have much higher population density than the Western US so I don't know how well it works outside the cities. Which technology would have better reception OMN [out in middle of nowhere]? Short of a satellite phone what's the best cell service for a glider geek? Does it make sense to supplement a CDMA regular phone with a prepaid phone on the GSM network? Does anyone make dual mode CDMA/GSM? Chris |
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