I agree! I don't want EXPANDED services, I just want
service! I want seamless connectivity to my cellphone
whereever I happen to go! Highways, forest, inside
buildings! As it stands, when I go to work, my
cellphone gets a "No Signal" and that's frustrating!
And like you, I'm also in a suburb of DC!
Ed
web/gadget guru
come and see my Newt on the web (well, mostly) at:
http://65.84.243.167
--- "Eric L. Strobel" <fyzycyst_at_home.com> wrote:
>
> at the temporal coordinates: 2/14/02 1:52 PM, the
> entity known as Ed Kummel
> at tech_ed_at_yahoo.com conveyed the following:
>
> > 3G is nothing but a loss-leader in the
> > cellphone industry.
>
> I've seen this "3G" thing mentioned on the list a
> few times but I've never
> heard of it anywhere else. What is it? I assume
> its some sort of enhanced
> cellphone service. But why would anyone worry about
> implementing that when
> there's still so many places where one can't get
> signal for an ordinary cell
> phone. (Like my house, just 10 miles or so from the
> Washington Beltway,
> less than 5 miles from I-95, but I can't get any
> signal at all at my house.
> You'd think that of all the places in the US, you'd
> be able to get signal
> anywhere w/in 30 miles or so of the Capitol, but
> nooooo....)
>
> - Eric.
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