TDMA phone useless?

Is there any use for an AT&T wireless TDMA phone or should I toss it?
Which carrier, if any, still operates TDMA networks in the USA? Perhaps it
can be used for calling 911?

"peter" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:7nLqi.697$Kk4.22@trndny09...
> Is there any use for an AT&T wireless TDMA phone or should I toss it?
> Which carrier, if any, still operates TDMA networks in the USA? Perhaps it
> can be used for calling 911?
>
Doorstop......
Give it to your kid to play with.....

peter wrote:
> Is there any use for an AT&T wireless TDMA phone or should I toss it?
> Which carrier, if any, still operates TDMA networks in the USA? Perhaps it
> can be used for calling 911?

<sarcasm>Find the FCC transmit test menu and <pun>have a
blast</pun>?</sarcasm>

Other than that, pretty much a doorstop. I wouldn't quite trash one
yet, as I suspect one can get them to work on the DECT block... an old
TDMA phone would be a lot nicer than any of the sub-$100 shit they sell
as a "cordless phone".

In article <LmNqi.11628$ml1.10164@fe16.usenetserver.com>, balsofsteele@gmail.com wrote:
> Other than that, pretty much a doorstop. I wouldn't quite trash one
> yet, as I suspect one can get them to work on the DECT block... an old
> TDMA phone would be a lot nicer than any of the sub-$100 shit they sell
> as a "cordless phone".
Does anyone know how to make that possible? do you need a tdma
basestation (very low power I would assume) that provides the same
interfacing between a tdma phone and pots. Anyone built such a thing?
If you had... does it work well?

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peter wrote:
> Is there any use for an AT&T wireless TDMA phone or should I toss it?
> Which carrier, if any, still operates TDMA networks in the USA? Perhaps it
> can be used for calling 911?
>
>


In some urban areas, TDMA has already joined the dodo bird, and with it
went any value for 911 dependency. Without a network to latch on to,
it's just a paper weight.

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On Jul 28, 2007, balsofsteele@gmail.com wrote:
> ...as I suspect one can get them to work on the DECT block...

What's that? An FCC frequency range?