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- From: gw214790@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Galen Watts)
- Subject: Re: RF transmitters, cellular phones
- Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account)
- Message-ID: <Dec27.160131.51703@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 16:01:31 GMT
- References: <103212@netnews.upenn.edu> <1hi6jsINN3bb@leela.CS.ORST.EDU>
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- In article <1hi6jsINN3bb@leela.CS.ORST.EDU> forbesm@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (Mark Forbes) writes:
- >alex@anat3d1.anatomy.upenn.edu (Alex Shrom) writes:
- >[stuff deleted]
- >Customer can't afford a good phone, but really needs the service. In our
- >area, log truck drivers are in this category. They are required by law
- >to have communication systems handy (for forest fire and OSHA purposes)
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- Does CB or Amateur radio satisfy the legal requirements? If they don't,
- it sounds like a law designed to make even more money for the already
- overpriced cellular industry.
- >
- >He gets what he needs, a yuppie gets lunch money, and Cellular One gets
- >another customer. Slick.
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- I can call 911 from any repeater in this area for FREE!
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- Just my 15 Roubles (=$0.02) worth.
- Galen Watts, KF0YJ
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