OT - Cellphone billing

[Duncan MacGregor]

On February 29, 2008 01:49:22 pm James Knott wrote:

>
> Unless you happen to be on an ancient exchange.  When new gear arrives
> in the big city, it often pushes older stuff out to the boonies, so
> someone in the middle of nowhere, is barely past cranking the phone to
> get the operator!  ;-)

The boonies. 
Like twenty miles north of Barrie, say Craighurst. 70 miles from Toronto and 
all the good stuff starts to wink out. Other than that, it's 26k dialup data, 
no call-waiting, call-forward, call-answer, . . .
 
The only substantial service map is for POTS. For high-speed data and actual 
cell-phone service, the service map is a series of tiny pockets around 
cities, with huge dark spots in between.

And when Hydro goes off, you get  about five hours and then no 9-1-1, no 
nothing until Hydro comes back on. 

So in areas when  Hydro craps out, they lose 9-1-1 service soon after.


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