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Re: Boost Mobile said by exocet_cm:Easy to acquire, cheap to ditch, difficult, if not impossible, to track. "A concern of police and security agencies world wide is that prepaid mobile services allow the user to be anonymous and therefore facilitate criminal or terrorist activities. As prepaid service is not so much sold as re-sold in bulk in the form of sealed cards, there is no technological means to determine the identity of a prepaid phone user." This would include every single carrier that has a prepaid service like Verizon, ATT, T-Mobile, Virgin and Boost (through Sprint), etc.
Why not ban cell phones since criminals can get others to buy them and do strawman purchases like they do for guns.
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RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | When prepaid cell phones are outlawed, only outlaws will have prepaid cell phones...
As for Boost, being tethered to Sprint's network means no service unless you are in a major market or within a few hundred yards of an Interstate. No thanks. |
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 rec9140Provoice just DO it
join:2003-07-29
Mulberry, FL | reply to RadioDoc
said by RadioDoc:
As for Boost, being tethered to Sprint's network means no service unless you are in a major market or within a few hundred yards of an Interstate. No thanks.
Boost uses the iDEN x-Nextel(nexhell) network which is totally different than the Sprint CDMA network.
The iDEN network has quite a bit more coverage and sometimes works alot of places that some CDMA carriers (including sprint) don't even in Podunk, USA.
Unfortunately until the rebanding is completed nexhell(boost) is one of the biggest RF polluters around.
Any one in public safety probably has nexhell/boost and the alphabets at the feds are HUGE users of the iDEN network as their primary and sometimes only communications.
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La Mesa, CA
kudos:7 | said by rec9140:The iDEN network has quite a bit more coverage and sometimes works alot of places that some CDMA carriers (including sprint) don't even in Podunk, USA. I live in Southern California and I have access to T-Mobile, ATT (Cingular), Sprint and Nextel. Out here, we go out to the desert a lot and I've taken those carriers with me. I can tell you, Nextel beats all the others hands down. The absolute worst is ATT (They actually weren't too bad as Cingular). I haven't been able to test Verizon but hope to soon with a friend who uses them. This is the biggest reason most first responders use Nextel.
One thing to always remember, each market is different. My friend in New York likes Sprint, out here it used to sux - but it is better now. Tower build out is the biggest factor in any market. This is why when people ask me about cell phones from places other than San Diego - I tell them to talk to others local to them. |
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rec9140Provoice just DO it
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Mulberry, FL | said by meister_sd:
This is the biggest reason most first responders use Nextel.
PTT, PTT, PTT.
Thats the drive behind the public safety use.
Its used as a huge "private channel" network to avoid the existing network which may not have encryption abilities.
iDEN also replaced almost all the SMR trunked systems that existed, although private SMR via LTR trunking is making a good comeback in many areas.
Sole reason I have a Boost is for the PTT, thats it. I would have to look up the phone number to tell you it. The DC/PTT/walkie talkie is what used 99.99999% Theres been a very few instances in some remote areas where I've had to use it to make a interconnect call in place of my VZW, but I could count that on one hand and have plenty left.
PTT is what drives iDEN use more than any thing.
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