[83642] in North American Network Operators' Group
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Fri Aug 19 16:51:18 2005
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:50:33 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org>
Cc: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>, wb8foz@nrk.com,
North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <022d01c5a4f3$5c604b70$6701a8c0@dax>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 01:59:46PM -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>
> Thus spake "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
> >>Face it, 7D is dead; and even if overlays had not arrived, cell
> >>phones would have killed it. Once you learn to think 10D, it's
> >>trivial.
> >
> >Oh, you ignorant rednecks.* Even my cell phone has 7D dialing and
> >it'll be a century before overlays arrive where I live.
>
> Great. Store 7D numbers in your phone's directory and drive a few hours in
> any direction; see if they still work. _That_ is why mobile phones are
> killing off 7D, not because of dialing patterns or overlays.
humm.... there are 7d #'s in my cell and some 3d #'s also.
and some 14d and lots of 10d numbers. regardless, when i
drive a few hours -WEST- (that would be 140-200 mile off the
LA coast...), none of them work... unless i carry
a micro/pico cell and sat uplink w/ me... (yes the car needs
a hull and a powerplant from a Cigarette). GSM is such a PITA.
And only a few locations I am aware of (Parts of the Gulf of Mexico)
have any cell coverage more than a mile or two offshore w/o
adjunct support (see above)
--bill
> Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think they know everything
> CCIE #3723 are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
> K5SSS --Isaac Asimov
