[118697] in Cypherpunks
Re: Cell towers can't track very short calls?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Broiles)
Wed Oct 6 00:09:20 1999
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Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 20:53:06 -0700
To: Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
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At 06:50 PM 10/5/99 , Steve Schear wrote:
>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.
Is it possible that most private pilots aren't flying at the speeds or
altitudes common to commercial flights, such that they're going to be less
likely to experience this? Also, would you notice if you made a cell call
that *didn't* show up on your bill? I look at mine to see if there are
calls that I didn't make, but I don't think I'd notice a call that was
missing (especially if it were made while travelling, given that roaming
calls can take longer to show up on bills).
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Greg Broiles
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