[BC] Cell phone activations

[dean tiernan]

Its smoke. The cellular providers want to get rid of analog service. 
Most are converting to some digital service. In some places they simply 
refuse and tell the truth. Unfortunately, cell phone customer service 
and truth are not necessarily linked. They are all moving to some 
digital standard and simply don't want to maintain analog tx/rx. I've 
heard some good things about some of the GSM codecs, you might want to 
check with the usual suspects, before signing up with a service. Dean 
--------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 
19:17:09 -0500 From: Mike McCarthy <Towers at mre.com> Subject: [RT] Re: 
[BC] Cell phone activations To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List 
<broadcast at radiolists.net>, "Radio-Tech List Server" 
<radio-tech at broadcast.net>, "Broadcast List" 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
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