[118693] in Cypherpunks
Re: Cell towers can't track very short calls?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Tue Oct 5 22:16:09 1999
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Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 18:50:15 -0700
To: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com>
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Reply-To: Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com>
At 04:26 PM 10/5/99 -0700, Greg Broiles wrote:
>The article quotes Bentley Alexander of AT&T's wireless unit as saying
>that airborne use of cellphones creates a problem for cellphone
>carriers, because the connection may not be active long enough at each
>tower for the billing systems to account for the use, leading to free
>calls.
Many general aviation pilots use their cell phone when airborne. If what
the article says is true, you have expected them to have discovered same
and enlightened their fellow aviators.
--Steve
