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Re: Virgin Mobile to Begin Offering $40 Unlimited Prepaid 3G Broadband Service Tomorrow
On Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:14:18 -0500, in
<slrni8892a.ct.dcferguson@akit-ferguson.com>, Dennis Ferguson
<dcferguson@pacbell.net> wrote:
>On 2010-09-05, George <george@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> I probably mentioned this before but a good friend lives in a slightly
>> higher elevation than here that catches lots of ice on occasion during
>> winter storms. When the iphone came out his family had to have them.
>> Since he doesn't have a landline in his house I mentioned he was taking
>> a chance since AT&T doesn't usually doesn't have backup generators
>> preferring to fit a power plug and depend on the two trailer mounted
>> generators they have for my 15,000 square mile area. Last winter there
>> was a major ice storm which took down the electricity for 4 days. He
>> said his cell coverage disappeared in less than an hour and was off for
>> the full 4 day period. tmobile doesn't have native coverage there so
>> anyone using them was down (and it wouldn't matter if they did because
>> they only install minimal battery in their sites). VZW has large backup
>> capacity and generators so those users never noticed a difference.
>
>Verizon certainly doesn't supply all sites with fixed backup generators,
>though. The places in south Florida where I've been in a situation
>to notice didn't seem to have any at all.
That's changed -- FCC rules now require standby power.
(I've posted the citation here previously.)
--
John
"Assumption is the mother of all screw ups."
[Wethern’s Law of Suspended Judgement]
"John Navas" <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote in message news:0sl8869ecg7a0ujr3j7adt930d69m482l3@4ax.com...
That's changed -- FCC rules now require standby power.
(I've posted the citation here previously.)
Sorry John, a swing and another miss. STRIKE!!!
Another one of your 'citations' you don't actually know anything about.
Just posting something doesn't make it true.
Damn, this is getting waaaay to easy.
The FCC TRIED to back in 2008. It certainly didn't actually happen.
On 9/6/2010 12:09 AM, Nessnet wrote:
>
> "John Navas" <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote in message
> news:0sl8869ecg7a0ujr3j7adt930d69m482l3@4ax.com...
>
> That's changed -- FCC rules now require standby power.
> (I've posted the citation here previously.)
>
> Sorry John, a swing and another miss. STRIKE!!!
> Another one of your 'citations' you don't actually know anything about.
> Just posting something doesn't make it true.
> Damn, this is getting waaaay to easy.
He did read one article about so it must be true... And it would be
anecdotal but he could go and look at the tmobile pedestal that services
his house and note that there is no generator.
Maybe he could post a citation that they are now using new Japanese
miniaturization technology to fit a generator and fuel source in 4 cubic
inches...
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