Steve Cramer wrote: > This reminds me of the first time a poster on rec.boats.paddle mentioned > taking a cell phone on a river trip so he could do phone tech support if > necessary. He got a ton of crap for presuming to despoil the pristine > wilderness environment with the noxious ringing of a phone, yada yada > yada. His response was similar to Craig's: I can be on the water with my > phone, or I can sit at home. No brainer. > > And if you don't want to be "tethered" it's still possible to plead "no > service." Which I did yesterday, as a matter of fact ;) > > Steve > With my provider, I can easily claim "no service" whenever I'm more than a few miles away from a city or a major highway. In the entire province of Newfoundland -- OK, so not exactly the most highly populated area on earth -- I was able to get a connection only in the capital of St. Johns. Roughly 20 or 30 miles north of Ottawa, my friend can get coverage from Bell Mobility (if she stands on one leg on a certain rock and leans at an exact 45-degree angle to the SSE), but I get nothing with my Rogers phone. (Makes it tough to phone and announce that you're at the locked gate and can someone please come down and let me through.) You guys who live where there are enough people to warrant cell towers and proper coverage are lucky. Or not. Depending on how badly you want an excuse to leave your cell phone behind, I guess. -- Darryl *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Apr 27 2009 - 09:40:53 PDT
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