Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 22:14:20 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] Re: landlines
From: whitroth at 5-cent.us
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Judith Newton wrote:
> 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.
>
Yep. Silver Spring, here, actually "Garrtett Forest" (not Park), and I can
only use my cell phone in *parts* of my house.

> Also I'm really sorry I agreed to rip out our copper lines for FIOS. No
> power OR phone during outages.
>
Bought our house that way, sigh.

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