Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:19:15 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mobile phone coverage (was: VCD (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c)) Message-ID: <20010121211915.B45892@peorth.iteration.net> In-Reply-To: <20010122123223.K3066@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:32:23PM %2B1030 References: <200101211447.f0LElEk04073@mobile.wemm.org> <KAECKEJJOLGHAFGGNIKMAELICAAA.res02jw5@gte.net> <20010121145018.A73989@citusc17.usc.edu> <20010121165422.A44505@peorth.iteration.net> <v04220821b691222656eb@[10.0.1.2]> <20010121181251.B44819@peorth.iteration.net> <v04220825b6912c57be5b@[10.0.1.2]> <20010122123223.K3066@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:32:23PM +1030, Greg Lehey scribbled: | On Monday, 22 January 2001 at 1:29:13 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: | > At 6:12 PM -0600 2001/1/21, Michael C . Wu wrote: | > | >> Hmm? I can do that in Asia. But then there is no need to do so, | >> since Asian countries like Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan cover | >> every inch of their territories. (Benefit of a small country.) | > | > Do they cover all the mountainous areas? What about all rivers | > and caves? Can you be 100% guaranteed that no matter where you were | > to hike, camp, or do white-water rafting, you could always get full | > and complete coverage with all of the carriers in the country? | | Of course! Even in bank vaults. Why! We even have coverage in submarines. Of course, the data rate may be a little slow and the conversation a "bit" laggy, but all is well. 8) | > You certainly can't get those kinds of guarantees over here, | > not even in a country like Belgium that has about the same land mass | > as the state of Maryland (one of the smaller states in the US), and | > with less population than the combined Washington, D.C. and | > Baltimore metropolitan areas (fifteen million people, total). | | A more obvious comparison would be between the USA and Australia. | I've noticed significantly worse GSM coverage in Silicon Valley than | in Adelaide SA. | | >> Switch a SIM card? | > | > Do you really want to carry around three SIM cards, three | > phone numbers, | | It's a question of flexibility. The phone numbers are on the cards, | and you don't "constantly" switch phones. My scenario was when moving | from one country to another. CDMA works in Korea, Israel and | Australia; how would you get local access rates there with your CDMA | phone and American NAMs? I can also transfer my phone book from one GSM phone to another via the SIM card. Can't really do that with PCS. | > and have to be constantly switching between them to get coverage? | | I haven't seen a necessity to switch at all in a single country. I | know Belgium's not very big, but it still takes over an hour to drive | through from North to South. So it really would be cheap to just change Belgium, but the problem with European countries getting in sync with each other.... -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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