Cell phone coverage holes hurt public safety

factual errors: I worked as a cellular carrier tech for several years. The author neglected to
mention commnetwireless (www.commnetwireless.com), a company that builds
cellsites in rural areas where the big boys (verizon & cingular) don't want to, then
charges the big boys a high roaming charge when their customers use commnet
cellsites. Also, E911 locates can be done on analog systems, using a technique
called triangulation. Nortel offers this feature on their switches - it's called MTX
track. A family with an analog cellphone was rescued from a car buried in a
snowdrift in North Dakota several years ago using MTX track. Verizon hasn't built
an analog capable cellsite in rural America in years, so there are large holes in
analog coverage that don't need to be there - except for corporate greed.; Posted by: bspain Posted on: 12/18/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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