[BC] Cell phone activations

[Mike McCarthy]

Blowing smoke as far as I know.  The FCC can't dictate what phones the 
cellular providers can or can not activate/reactivate/deactivate except 
fort violations of the service agreement. Especially if the phone was on 
that system before. What a pile.

Also...keep this in mind.  The analog phones will probably function better 
in emergency situations than digital phones.  A couple reasons.  1) There 
aren't many of them left and there will be less congestion on the cell. 2) 
You can easily take a bag phone and stick a HUGE high gain yagi with some 
height to reach into a cell which might be working at some distance.  You 
would be surprised at how far 50 watts ERP at 30 ft. will travel at 850 Mhz.

MM

At 05:36 PM 10/27/2005 -0600, Don Niccum wrote:
>I have a question for the list.  One of our clients has been using an analog
>bag phone for high school sports.  The bag phone died.  She has a second bag
>phone that is in good condition and works.  She wanted to transfer her
>active current analog service to the other bag phone.  Their cellular
>provider, a national provider, told her that they could not activate the
>second bag phone because, if they did, the FCC would fine them.  Is this
>true or are they just blowing smoke in order to get them to buy a new phone?
>
>Don Niccum
>Roswell, New Mexico
>donn at dfn.com