On May 23, 8:41�pm, Phil Kane wrote:
�Before ham autopatches were popular on repeaters, the telcos -
both wireline and non-wireline - offered Mobile Telephone Service
(MTS) �using mobile operators and Improved Mobile Telephone
Service
(IMTS) permitting subscriber dial. �Expensive - you bet - but they

were available to the average person.

Right you are, Phil! I should have noted that while such services
existed, their cost was such that most "average people" could not
afford them.

73 de Jim, N2EY