On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:51:57 -0800, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
wrote:

>Karl wrote:
>> On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:13:49 GMT, John Navas
>> <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote:
>>
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>>>AMPS will soon be going away,
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>> Name the date. You been scaring folks with that for years, and its
>> still far off.
>
>When the FCC permits AMPS to be shut down in 2008, it will almost
>certainly immediately be shut down in areas that are covered by digital
>service, because it uses a lot of bandwidth unnecessarily.


It will more likely be delayed many times as Congressmen from Rural
areas complain.