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Re: Mobile Comm.

From: Mitra <>
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 08:00:39 +1000

At 09:33 PM 4/4/98 -0500, Jeremy Lemieux wrote:
>
>At 10:08 PM 4/4/98 +1000, Mitra wrote:
>>At 02:36 AM 4/3/98 -0500, Jeremy Lemieux wrote:
>>>If the former is the case, that coverage isn't bad...Almost every region
>>>has at least _some_ coverage.  Granted, it's nowhere near continuous, but
>>>it would provide links within several days' travel from most any spot (Give
>>>or take).
>>
>>I don't know about anyone else, but "several days travel" is not what I'm
>>looking for when I travel, I can find a phone-line in less time than that ! 
>
>Sure, but then you have to actually physically connect to the line, for
>one, and have some local number you can call for two.  The latter is doable
>with some services, I guess, but the former is just not very appealing.

But . ... I think that is why we are looking for a wireless method, a
wireless method that connects here and now is useful to me, a wireless
method that is a day-or-two away (such as ricochet at some university) is not.

- Mitra

(Currently dialed in through a friends ISP account, on another friends
phone line, in Australia)

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