[82222] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ATT CDPD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Sat Jul 9 08:36:07 2005
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 08:34:17 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050708095748.B19934@cgi.jachomes.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
AMPS, as I understand it, is required to be around until 1/1/2007, as
mandated by tge FCC.
> Scheduled to die soon, if it hasn't already. I was a second-tier CDPD
> sub, via Earthlink, until about a year ago; they took a hit to move me
> to 1xRTT, because the underlying networks were scheduled to go down, in
> keeping with the general decommissioning of analog AMPS, during this
> calendar year, as I understand it.
>
> It was extended because of a couple of large PD's who needed more time
> to switch (or amortize their gear; take your pick).
>
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Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, alex@nac.net, latency, Al Reuben
Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net
