Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:09:39 -0500
From: Judith Newton <jnewton at ashcomp.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: landlines
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 12/28/2012 3:56 PM, Mike B. wrote:
> Payphones covered the same places you have cell coverage now, and
> didn't cover the places you don't. I've had coverage in places that
> never even dreamed of having a pay phone...like on the roadside
> halfway between Frederick and Hagerstown. There are places with no
> coverage, such as the parts of West Virginia near the radio telescopes
> where the FCC has a "no radios" zone established, or out west in the
> Rockies in many places where the mountains block the signals from the
> existing towers, but around here, with Verizon, I've not found many
> places I can't get a signal without going underground...and even
> sometimes there when there's a repeater set up.

You haven't been to our house lately.  Our cell phone coverage is too
unreliable to give up our land line.  This despite a cell phone tower
not 50 feet from our property line.

Also I'm really sorry I agreed to rip out our copper lines for FIOS. No
power OR phone during outages.

Judy