On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:20:55 -0500, BDK wrote:

goodbye analog cellular service old friend. How I fondly remember (
Was shut down January 2000.

Not around here!

Ah, the third world.. :-P

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On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:20:55 -0500, BDK wrote:

goodbye analog cellular service old friend. How I fondly remember (
Was shut down January 2000.

Not around here!

Ah, the third world.. :-P




The first places a new technology appears in always have the oldest
formats. That's how it works.

BDK

goodbye analog cellular service *old friend. How *I fondly remember *(
Was shut down January 2000.

Not around here!

Ah, the third world.. :-P



Well, considering that conventional AMPS service was still mandated by
the FCC until Feb., I don't see how they got away with that!

Here in the third world, both systems continued to provide analog
service on a couple of channels, with Ciingular/AT&T going to one
channel per sector per site last year. If that channel was busy and
you couldn't reach the next cellsite, you were sol.
Last year, Cingular/AT&T/whatever even cut back on the number of
control channels, taking away the first six and turning them over to
TDMA.
Course, I guess AT&T is pulling the plug on that, too.

Ah, well.


George