OT - Cellphone billing

[James Knott]

Duncan MacGregor wrote:
> 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, . . .
>   

I know where Craighurst is.  I've passed by there, on Hwy 400, en route 
to & from Penetang, including yesterday.  Of course, anything north of 
Steeles is the boonies.  ;-)

>  
> 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.
>   

Well, there's at least T1 in the prison in Penetang.  I've been in there 
a few times, working on communications systems.  If you'd care to 
relocate...  ;-)
> 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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