Nextel cellular service - Re: iPhones and Contracts

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Re: iPhones and Contracts

George

2007-07-16, 7:33 am

karlkrandall@sbcglob
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> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:52:54 -0400, "Bill Marriott" <wjm@wjm.org>
> wrote:
>
>
> And even if one chose not to activate the iPhone as a phone it is
> still capable (as required by law) to reach 911. Something Verizon
> FIOS can't due in a local power glitch.
>

The old ATT TDMA sites that are going/gone away had backup generators.
The GSM sites just have a minimal amount of battery. So with anything
other than a short term power failure you aren't calling 911 (or anyone
else) on your iphone.

>
>

Ness_net

2007-07-17, 10:33 pm

Just FYI, when Seattle had that spell of bad weather last winter,
it sure was nice to have that big 'ol gen at the VZW site nearby pumping
out the juice - and the site staying up the whole time. The GSM carriers
(and Sprint) were LONG off the air.

There is NO substitute...

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> At 16 Jul 2007 06:44:55 -0400 George wrote:
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>
>
> If any other GSM carrier is operating (like T-Mobile) the 911 call would
> go through them.
>
> And forgetting the doom and gllom scenarios, backup batteries are good
> for several hours- longer than than Vast majority of power outages. In
> this post-Katrina world, AT&T has decided to spend their "backup"
> resources on things like an increased number of COWs (Cells on Wheels,)
> stored regionally, to deploy to areas in a true state of emergency,
> rather than try to increase backup capacity of every cell tower in their
> network.
>
> In my nearly 20-years of using cellphones, I've never lost service due to
> power outages- even in outages lasting for over two-days. I suspect the
> cellcos know what they're doing in that area by now!
>
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John Navas

2007-07-18, 4:33 am

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:41:21 -0700, "Ness_net"
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>Just FYI, when Seattle had that spell of bad weather last winter,
>it sure was nice to have that big 'ol gen at the VZW site nearby pumping
>out the juice - and the site staying up the whole time. The GSM carriers
>(and Sprint) were LONG off the air.

Not according to people I know in that area.

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Ness_net

2007-07-18, 4:33 am

Well Johnny, I LIVE here.
This is not 2nd hand info.

Note, I didn't say their entire system(s) were down.

But, very certainly in this area, they were. VZW was
the only system that stayed up, here. The only one with
a gen, keeping things humming... Battery plants just don't
last for days, more like hours.

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> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:41:21 -0700, "Ness_net"
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> Not according to people I know in that area.
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Dennis Ferguson

2007-07-18, 12:33 pm

On 2007-07-18, Ness_net <richard@nomore.damn.spam.nessnet.com> wrote:
> Well Johnny, I LIVE here.
> This is not 2nd hand info.
>
> Note, I didn't say their entire system(s) were down.
>
> But, very certainly in this area, they were. VZW was
> the only system that stayed up, here. The only one with
> a gen, keeping things humming... Battery plants just don't
> last for days, more like hours.

I was in Boynton Beach, FL during and after hurricane Frances in 2004.
No Verizon cell sites there had permanent generators that I noticed (I've
yet to see a generator at an isolated cell site where I live in California,
for that matter).

Despite this, after the first day, Verizon was the only wireless
carrier operating where I was for the 4 or 5 days the power was out.
While coverage was spotty in the town Verizon did have portable generators
deployed at the cell sites along the freeway close to where I was staying.
My Sprint and T-Mobile phones, on the other hand, were useless anywhere
north of Fort Lauderdale (where the power was still on), as was my
brother-in-law's Cingular phone.

Dennis Ferguson

SMS

2007-07-18, 12:33 pm

Dennis Ferguson wrote:

> Despite this, after the first day, Verizon was the only wireless
> carrier operating where I was for the 4 or 5 days the power was out.
> While coverage was spotty in the town Verizon did have portable generators
> deployed at the cell sites along the freeway close to where I was staying.
> My Sprint and T-Mobile phones, on the other hand, were useless anywhere
> north of Fort Lauderdale (where the power was still on), as was my
> brother-in-law's Cingular phone.

I read somewhere that after the 2005 hurricane season Cingular did
decide to begin installing back-up power on more sites.

Verizon seems to be almost anal about their network's reputation, while
Cingular didn't seem to care until recently.

My mom's in South Florida, and amazingly her land line was fine after
Wilma in 2005, which hit where they live very hard, and they don't have
underground utilities. No electricity for five days though. Their
Cingular phone didn't work. Now they're on T-Mobile, but fortunately
haven't had the opportunity to test the back-up capability.

John Navas

2007-07-18, 3:33 pm

Fair enough -- I didn't realize you were speaking of only one tower.

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:09:14 -0700, "Ness_net"
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>Well Johnny, I LIVE here.
>This is not 2nd hand info.
>
>Note, I didn't say their entire system(s) were down.
>
>But, very certainly in this area, they were. VZW was
>the only system that stayed up, here. The only one with
>a gen, keeping things humming... Battery plants just don't
>last for days, more like hours.
>
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