centrist...

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 01:59:46PM -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> Thus spake "John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>
> > > Face it, 7D is dead; and even if overlays had not arrived, cell
> > > phones would have killed it. Once you learn to think 10D, it's
> > > trivial.
> >
> > Oh, you ignorant rednecks.*  Even my cell phone has 7D dialing and
> > it'll be a century before overlays arrive where I live.
>
> Great.  Store 7D numbers in your phone's directory and drive a few hours in 
> any direction; see if they still work.  _That_ is why mobile phones are 
> killing off 7D, not because of dialing patterns or overlays.

        humm.... there are 7d #'s in my cell and some 3d #'s also.
        and some 14d and lots of 10d numbers.  regardless, when i
        drive a few hours -WEST- (that would be 140-200 mile off the 
        LA coast...), none of them work... unless i carry
        a micro/pico cell and sat uplink w/ me... (yes the car needs
        a hull and a powerplant from a Cigarette).  GSM is such a PITA.
        And only a few locations I am aware of (Parts of the Gulf of Mexico)
        have any cell coverage more than a mile or two offshore w/o 
        adjunct support (see above)

--bill

> Stephen Sprunk      "Those people who think they know everything
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