[Rhodes22-list] Cell Phone Issues

[Rik Sandberg]

Brad,

I have AT&T on my cell. Don't talk on the cell a lot. Started out with 600 
minutes a month. No weekends, no special times, no nothing else and 
absolutely no roaming charges, just 600 minutes whenever/wherever I want. I 
think that was 89 bucks a month. It's been good most anywhere I have gone. 
Of course there are some rural areas that just plain don't have any towers 
yet, but I don't think any of the places you named would have that trouble. 
I've been a lot happier with my service than my wife has with hers. I think 
she's with T- Mobile or something like that.

Good luck,
Rik


At 04:14 PM 12/5/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>We're in the process of shopping for a new cell phone
>server.  Sprint PCS has turned out to be an expensive
>"beeper" service.  We live 1.3 miles from the nearest
>Sprint antenna but the phones don't work from our
>home.  I can't call home from downtown Philly,
>Portland, LAX area, the list goes on and on.  My
>friends call me and hang up knowing that I'll find a
>payphone and use the caller ID to figure who to call
>back.  Enough!  We get a company discount on Verizon
>and AT&T.  What's your experience with these services?
>
>Second question:  Has anyone hooked up their cell
>phones to the boats VHF mast antenna?  The marine
>catalogs list cell phone antennas that look simular to
>a standard VHF one.  Every service I've looked at show
>a blank area in the Pickwick Lake area.  The "no
>service" band is narrow and follows the TN river so
>I'm wondering if an elevated antenna might help.  I'd
>like to just leave the phone behind but that won't
>always be possible.
>
>PS:  MJM, I promise not to talk on the phone during
>thunderstorms.
>
>Brad Haslett
>"CoraShen"
>
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