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kruser
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Re: Why?

said by insomniac84 See Profile :

Why would anyone still be using an analog phone?
I own country property south of St. Clair, MO and the only thing that works is my old analog Motorola bag phone.
It works great while a GSM phone has absolutely no signal.

Last fall there was a roll over accident on the road and one person died.
They say the other would have died if they had not received the emergency call quickly which was made from the bag phone.
So that is my main reason for keeping analog and will be forced to pay this extra fee until they shut the analog signal down..

Plus the digital conversion delay sucks on every carrier I've ever used (Cingular, Verizon and Nextel).
Digital may be better for squeezing more signals into a given bandwidth but they need to work on the delay that is introduced.


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you may want to look into one of those cell antennas that people in the country and on the side of mountains use. sorry, i don't have a link handy.
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These are sold at Fry's, CompUSA, among other places.
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