[BC] dropped cell signal to laptop

[Jerry Mathis]

An uneducated guess on my part would be that AT&T was disconnecting some
extra cell sites that were brought in to cover the extra cellphone activity
engendered by the Convention.

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Jerry Mathis

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Scott Todd <stodd at kkms.com> wrote:

> I encountered a phenomenon, recently, that I wasn't able to figure out and
> was wondering if anyone here knew the answer.  The day after the RNC ended
> we had the morning team from our sister station doing their show from our
> studios.  The morning team was in the talk studio and their news guy was in
> main control.  News guy had a laptop with an AT&T card in it and he lost the
> cell connection.  We both had AT&T cellphones as well and could verify the
> loss of cell signal.  But our phones came back in about a minute, but it
> took several more minutes before his laptop started working again, the
> lights on the card not registering any signal for it.  Why did it happen
> that way?
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> Scott Todd
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Jerry Mathis