This is from a friend in Margao. Interesting... FN
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Lynn Barreto Miranda wrote:
> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:45:35 +0530 (IST)
> From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Goanet]Carry cellphone and u will never be lost in GOA ..(FN)
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >
> Anyway, we're offtrack from the original point: don't get mislead into
> thinking that your mobile 'cell info' is showing you the place where you
> are actually located. It quite possibly isn't.
>
>
>
> Hi Fred,
>
> If you are using the cell service provided by Orange in Bombay, then you
> can get the name of the place you are, have checked it all along the rail
> route from Bandra to VT/Churchgate, the name changes as you reach each
> station. Also you get name of major cooperative housing society you are in,
> instead of the area name. So too with Metro theater. Once you are inside
> it display METRO on the cell.
>
> I think this is possible because unlike Goa where they have a huge tower
> that covers a large radius, in Bombay they have small repeaters every few
> kilometers.
>
> Lynn.
>
>
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