In alt.cellular.cingular John Navas <spamfilter0@navasgroup.com> wrote:
>
> If coverage in the boonies is really important, then I think you need
> either a satellite phone or a PLB -- AMPS isn't really enough, since
> there are lots of places with no AMPS service.
>

For emergency service it is a far better safety net than any digital service
available [via cellular/PCS]. There is no such thing as a free 911 call on a
satellite phone if I am not mistaken. I have been to only one place in more
than 10 years where I had no coverage what-so-ever ... and that was two weeks
ago up in the Gunflint Trail in the boundry waters of the Minnesota Arrowhead
region. I am in locations that have no digital coverage several times per
year.

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Thomas T. Veldhouse
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