On 2008-04-27, Elmo P. Shagnasty <elmop@nastydesigns.com> wrote:

> Actually, that was the claim--that no one had the right to jam cell
> phone transmissions because what if there's an emergency!!!! And I need
> to make an emergency call!!!! The yahoo who made that claim is busy
> telling the world that his emergency communications may not be
> interefered with in any way.

You're not talking about me, are you? I hope not (see below).

> And yet, cell phone companies make decisions every day that interfere
> with his right to make said emergency calls (or any calls). Cell phone
> companies decide whether or not to provide service at any given location.

Red herring. This reminds me of my complaint from a few years ago, when
Verizon took six months to fix dropped calls in my area. I got reamed by
another regular Verizon newsgroup poster who started the "you're not
guaranteed coverage everywhere" thing, which was stupid, because I was
complaining about coverage being broken, not coverage being nonexistent. My
position in this thread is similar. I'm not stupid - I know you're not
guaranteed to have coverage in any particular spot.

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