[TowerTalk] Hardline from obsolete analog cellular sites (?)

[Scott Townley]

Analog service at 850MHz will be required until Feb. 2008.  After that it's 
anyone's guess what will happen.


At 12:12 2004-07-26, Gary wrote:
>On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:21:04 -0500, Blake Bowers wrote:
>
> > How will your employer handle FCC mandates?
>
>What are the mandates?  I haven't heard what is going on in that
>industry.  I can tell you that if analog goes away around my area, there
>won't be any cell phone coverage to speak of.  The way it is now, some
>areas have no coverage at all, and the ones that I can hill-top and get
>into are analog and 30+ miles away.  A full power bag phone with good
>external antenna is what it takes to have even partial coverage.
>
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Scott Townley NX7U
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