Don't they use different frequencies for data and voice?
-- Karthik Poobalasubramanian Louisiana Board of Regents [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 225-910-6126 On Aug 29, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Petri Laihonen wrote: > Cell towers crap out first with Voice, not with data.... I guess > data is easier to queue.... :-) > Text messaging worked a lot longer than Voice.... And that's when > majority learned that useful function in mobile world. > > I remember the first Mardi Gras after the cell phone boom arrived to > US. I had no problems communicating at the same time people were > complainin that their calls can not go through...... (I also > expected that to happen......) > > In most cases it is the incompetence of the people in the stores > provisioning the phones/plans rather than technology which fails. I > have been a victim of that about 80% of the time..... Latest case > being my iPhuck activation..... After they screwed up my wireless > account yet again, it took me 6 hours on the phone over 3 separate > days before it was activate. They could have done it the way I told > them to do it, but no..... > > > Petri > > > -ray wrote: >> >> >> Several times this week, people have said "we should have some of >> those cell cards for our laptops in case we lose internet!". I >> reminded them that the cell towers were the first thing to crap out >> during Katrina. >> >> Hopefully AT&T learned some things, and the infrastructure is >> better now than it was 3 years ago. >> >> ray >> >> >> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Petri Laihonen wrote: >> >>> Even via mobile if it comes down to that.....�� I have multiple >>> phones with multiple operators, so I'm not completely in the dark >>> with my iPhuck.....� :-) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
